The Return of the Catholic Craftsman
What if a young Catholic didn’t have to choose between Aquinas and a toolbox?
In this Chesterton Radio deep dive, we visit two remarkable experiments in Catholic education: the College of St. Joseph the Worker and San Damiano College for the Trades. Both are attempting to reunite things modern education has often pulled apart—intellectual formation and skilled work, prayer and craftsmanship, the liberal arts and the trades.
We explore how these schools work, what students actually study and build, their apprenticeship and financial models, Catholic teaching on the dignity of work, and the…
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