I was once asked during an interview to describe myself in three words. Though the question was unexpected (interviews in education are usually fairly predictable), it was effective.

Reclaiming the Piazza is, we admit, a quirky title for a book series. ‘Piazza’ refers to the great public space in Italy where dialogue and commensality take place.

Joseph T. Stuart, Professor of History and Fellow in Catholic Studies at the University of Mary in Bismarck, North Dakota, USA, comments on Christopher Dawson’s views on Education as Enculturation

David Meiklejohn writes about the work of the National Schools Singing Programme.

Pope Francis’s Apostolic Letter on the Liturgical Formation of the People of God Desiderio Desideravi, issued in 2022 captures a desire to evangelise through attraction.

Coming to see ourselves as accompaniers is not a native skill for those of us coming from a rational, Western intellectual tradition. A tradition often painted as a ruggedly individualistic paradigm that makes it hard to see, much less understand, how a community-based approach to education operates on the ground.

Stephen Dolan is a final year Scottish PhD candidate studying the relationship between Christianity and Politics in contemporary Hungary, and is also an experienced Undergraduate tutor at the University of Edinburgh.

On September 2 2022. the Rome launch of Reclaiming the Piazza III took place in the Paul VI Audience Hall, Vatican City.

In this post, Professor John Loughlin, Emeritus Fellow of St Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge, reflects on two foundations of Western civilization: the Bible and the philosophical insights of the Greco-Roman world.

Fostering a Eucharistic Culture
I teach doctrine, especially Eucharistic doctrine. In my work as a theological educator, I have come to recognize that doctrines are our friends.