Visiting the cemetery of Mother Seton’s Sisters of Charity in Emmitsburg, Maryland, one experiences both the sadness and the hope of death. Seeing the row of graves marking the burial ...

When I was perhaps eleven or twelve years old, I happened upon a piece of music called Once Upon a Time. It was from a Broadway play that I had ...

by Ken Clark Over the years, people have asked us to bind our books in different ways. 1. Perfect Binding There are two main ways that textbook publishers bind books. ...

The old phrase “hate the sin, but love the sinner” reveals a deeply Christian sentiment. Yes, we see sin as the greatest offense against God, but we don’t consider the ...

On a graduation day, it is fitting that you graduates and your families reflect on the past. Parents, now that you have brought your child safely to the end of ...

Certain things in life seem common to all men.  The physical things are the most obvious: we all need to eat and to sleep, and we all need shelter.  But ...

1. There has been so much discussion on the internet about the Common Core program being implemented in schools, even in Catholic schools. What will you be doing about the ...

The feast of the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus is celebrated this year on Friday, June 7th. Among Catholics and many Christians, pictures of the Sacred Heart and devotions to ...

Roger Ebert, the Chicago-based film critic who died recently, wrote that the first thing that really pushed him away from practicing his Catholic faith was his unwillingness to confess certain ...

Sister Josefa Menendez was a Spanish mystic who lived from 1890 to 1923. In 1920, she joined the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in Poitiers, France.  During her ...

I feel like my life is a treadmill.  It’s always running ahead of me and I am always trying to catch up. My book, Catholic Home Schooling, has a chapter ...

John Clark shares his 5 favorite uses for advancing education with modern media, and how invaluable a tablet will be to a homeschooling family.

The other day, I performed a task which is very common for the father of a large family—I took my trash to the dump. I am not someone who is ...

Thanks to some good friends generously giving us tickets and inviting us to go along with them, Veronica and I recently went to see an NHL hockey game. I have ...

1. Do you mind if I send work to be graded only when all the children are finished with their quarter’s work? 2. My husband and I believe that we ...

We home schooling parents are constantly faced with decisions about our children and about their daily schooling assignments, but also about running the household, scheduling doctors’ appointments, running errands, getting ...

1. My son has finished his math. May I buy the next book and have him start on the next grade level? 2. Will you be making supplemental videos for ...

by Ken Clark The great art of the world is Catholic art! For anyone who believes that the purpose of art is to uplift the human spirit, this statement cannot ...

Men in our society are often criticized for being perpetual adolescents. Yeah, maybe— but it’s not all our fault. I recently did a little research into the medical facts about ...

Because of illness, we are not as far along in our studies as I would like. What tips do you have for us to catch up? For some subjects, you ...