So begins an essay on the structure of a Catholic curriculum. This is not a practical guide in the sense of offering a comprehensive list of resources. I wish I thought that ideal resources were available in every domain, but many pieces are missing, while most are duplicated but always with missing parts. Nevertheless, some resources are listed, and the essay offers a perspective from which to evaluate the resources that you do use. The essay is 28 pages long with a laminated chart laying out the relationships between the major disciplines and displaying the cultural and the anti-cultural approach to each discipline.
Substantial margins are devoted to listing a few of the best resources.
This essay lays out the principles guiding the Hedge School. Our faith in the Incarnation leads us to believe that God means to give substance and life to the whole of human culture. For we know that a vigorous Catholic culture can arise only in proportion to our wisdom in answering that question. Catholic education is the comprehensive system of interior formation which is ordered throughout by the concept and confidence in the Incarnation. The mystery of the Incarnation itself rests on an orderly sense of Creation and the confidence it gives is sustained in the face of sin by faith in the mystery of the Cross of Jesus.