Faithful Catholic and Classical Educator and Formator
Joined September 2012
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16 Nov 2025
I’m glad to share that I’ve begun the task of sharing on Substack what I’ve learned in my 18 years in Catholic education and evangelization. Please consider sharing and subscribing! I’m calling it “CoCrucified” which I explain in this post. open.substack.com/pub/cocruc…
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Luke Heintschel retweeted
Jun 14
Please check out the Aristotle Reader Project v. 0.5 johnhboyer-sys.github.io/nic…
Going to expand corpus offerings. Suggestions and bug reports in replies please!
If you like it, please RT!
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I’m excited to serve as the fourth headmaster in the last 53 years.
It covers pre-kindergarten to 12th grade, and my children will be joining as students!
Louisville is a bustling Catholic community that has old, beautiful Churches, a Dominican parish with a very reverent…
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I hear it was a wonderful evening! The families and benefactors that attended are a testament that classical Catholic education is alive and well in Louisville. The history of Holy Angels is clear evidence that faithful culture and curriculum is fruitful for the souls.
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Gabi, the boys (and baby girl on the way), and I couldn’t be more grateful for all we’ve loved here in Coeur d’Alene, nor could we be more excited for the wonderful life waiting for us in Louisville. God is so good to us.
Praise the Lord!
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They have ample vocations (priestly, religious, and holy marriages) as part of this history, while most Catholic schools in that time have suffered from decreasing vocations. Holy Angels was founded by a Dominican nun in the early 1970s, and…
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Though leaving this community is deeply sad, we couldn’t be more excited to join in the tradition and momentum of an incredible community of Catholics at Holy Angels Academy in Louisville, KY. Holy Angels has a 50 year history of faithful, Catholic and classical education.
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It is mission centric, and the mission is heaven. It is culture-forward, which means the board, faculty, and families understand the true ‘how’ and ‘why’ of Catholic education. The faculty of CDCA have become my dearest friends.
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This incredible community of Catholics from which CDCA emerged also produced a faithful homeschool hybrid co-op that has been a blessing for Gabi and our second oldest, Dominic.
It is with much affection for this community that we’ve discerned moving away.
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The last three years have been so unfathomably enriching for my family. My work as Academic Headmaster (actively teaching, too) at Coeur du Christ has filled my heart in more ways than I can count. CDCA is an incredible place for a faithful Catholic to work.
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Luke Heintschel retweeted
Jun 8
"Neither 'multiple learning styles' nor 'multiple intelligences' is accepted by experts in the relevant fields."—E. D. Hirsch, Jr., Why Knowledge Matters, p. 70
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Luke Heintschel retweeted
New Episode!📚🎙️
Our 12-week study of the Odyssey continues.
This week @HarrisonGarlic1 is joined by @OfficialNotDr and Dr. Frank Grabowski to discuss Books 11-12 of the Odyssey.
The underworld, Scylla, Charybdis, and more!
Listeners are taken on Odysseus’ harrowing katabasis into the underworld, where he confronts shades of the dead, including his mother, the tragic Agamemnon, and especially Achilles, whose devastating reflection on glory versus life delivers one of the most “blood on the floor” moments in Western literature. The conversation masterfully unpacks themes of piety, humanization, fate and free will, and the meaning of a well-lived life, while drawing illuminating connections to Plato, Dante, Boethius, and the Christian tradition.
The discussion continues into Book 12 with the irresistible Sirens, the terror of Scylla and Charybdis, and the fateful transgression with the Cattle of the Sun. Throughout, the guests offer sharp insight into Odysseus’s evolving character, the tensions between cunning and virtue, and why these ancient stories remain essential for forming minds today.
Whether you’re a longtime lover of Homer or new to the Great Books, this episode delivers rich intellectual conversation, pedagogical wisdom, and profound reflections that will leave you eager to pick up the text—or re-read it with fresh eyes.
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Luke Heintschel retweeted
➡️My wife is an adulterous murderer.
➡️Therefore, all women are evil.
How you make a moral claim?
Here @OfficialNotDr uses Agamemnon as an image of flawed moral reasoning to contrast two different ways we make moral claims.
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Luke Heintschel retweeted
May 31
It should be called “Artificial Imagination”
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I’ve started publishing a series of articles on how to teach Moral Theology (to high schoolers, in particular). I believe this is some of the most important work I’ve done in my career, and am excited to share a pedagogy that is...
#Classical academies and good #Catholicschools alike seek to build character and form children in virtue. They purport to offer moral formation rather than merely intellectual training, professional training, or college preparation. (1/6)
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informed by both the Church’s theology and Classical, liberal education. Check out part two here: open.substack.com/pub/cocruc…
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Luke Heintschel retweeted
Pope Leo XIV on education as more than data transfer. This is great stuff!
"Without careful attention, an educational system lacking in a love for truth may emerge, in which an incessant flow of information replaces ... 1/
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Luke Heintschel retweeted
May 24
Unfortunately this is going to be the first papal encyclical for which people will publish—within minutes of release—AI summaries and “analysis”, welll before thoughtful readers have had a chance to get very far into the text.
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Daily mass is a very big deal
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The numbers defy logic, nearly 20% of all men who graduate from John Paul the Great K-12 school in Louisiana go on to seminary (at most Catholic schools it’s less than 1%). The classical education, Daily Mass, and Eucharistic adoration are creating a quiet revival.
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#Classical academies and good #Catholicschools alike seek to build character and form children in virtue. They purport to offer moral formation rather than merely intellectual training, professional training, or college preparation. (1/6)
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Usually, that teaching is a moral teaching. This sad situation demonstrates to me that the standard text-book approach to teaching moral theology is a neutered exercise. In fact, there is a popular morality textbook for high-school level Catholic theology that I consider a (5/6)
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...leading culprit. The problem is not that it teaches bad content. Rather, the flaw is in the structure underneath, upon which it is based.
Full article here: open.substack.com/pub/cocruc…
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