Bible Man had a lightsaber and fought off theological doubts with canned answers you would find on a Hobby Lobby plaque.

Ryan Klopack sat in that performance as a fourth grader rolling his eyes thinking, I do not know if God is in this.

Then the Twin Towers fell. And he was exposed to inexplicable evil that could not be explained away with canned answers. He needed something with extraordinary gravity. Something real.

That same year, missionaries told their story of being kidnapped by Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, thrown into prison, and walking out free after a miraculous intervention.

Ryan had a mystical encounter with God that day. He felt the weight and the presence and the glory in a way he cannot explain. It was like encountering the sun.

That encounter set him on a path of stripping away the artificial and replacing it with the real. Classical education became his bridge to Catholicism. The Latin Mass became his home.

Key Takeaways:

• Arcadia Education helps Christian and classical schools flourish by handling the processes that burn leaders out

• 92% of people who left homelessness in Scottsdale came through their relationship-based ministry

• The core of their homeless outreach was seeing people as made in the image of God with no strings attached

• Bible Man and canned Christian answers cannot stand up to real evil

• The Latin Mass preserves the weight and holiness that a God that big demands

• We need to conform to reality, not construct our own values

Ryan Klopack

Director of Executive Search, Arcadia Education

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👇 What stripped away the artificial and led you to encounter the real?

Two-thirds of Catholic school students gone in sixty years. But the real loss is not the numbers. It is the mission.Patrick Reilly founded the Cardinal Newman Society in 1993 after witnessing scandal after scandal at a Jesuit university. Abortion referrals. Student groups contrary to Catholic teaching. He decided someone had to defend faithful Catholic education. Thirty years later, he is still doing it.Key Takeaways:

• The Newman Guide recognizes 97 institutions and is expanding to 300 • Notre Dame is troubled. CUA under Peter Kilpatrick is thriving. • Once compromise enters, it cascades toward less Catholic identity • Parents are primarily responsible for education, not distant bureaucrats • Faith and reason must both be restored in Catholic formation • Graduates of Newman Guide schools can change the culturePatrick Reilly

Founder and President of The Cardinal Newman Society.

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👇 Did your Catholic education actually form you in the faith?#PatrickReilly #CardinalNewmanSociety #NewmanGuide #VirtuousLeaders #CatholicEducation #FaithfulFormation

They stopped talking to each other.

Nikki Sweeney had been in education for 30 years. But after COVID, she saw something new. Kids sitting at the same table in total silence, glued to their phones.

Mental health emergencies everywhere. So she banned the phones. And the blowback was brutal. But she held the line.

In year one, mental health emergencies dropped 94%.

What You'll Learn:

• The shift happened after COVID when kids learned to communicate through devices

• There is no better way to hurt a child than to isolate them

• Kids who belong to something perform better academically and emotionally

• Your happiness is based on the quality of your relationships

• If you harness what you love and pay it forward, it never feels like work

Nikki Sweeney

Author, The Virtue Code

Founder, Pay It Forward Enterprises

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👇 What changed when you put your phone down?

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What gets tested gets taught.That one sentence explains why College Board has shaped American education for 125 years. They own the SAT, the PSAT, and the AP courses.

And if you're a Catholic school or classical Christian school, you've been playing by rules that push students away from Augustine, Dante, and Aristotle.Jeremy Tate saw the problem and built an alternative. The Classical Learning Test launched in 2015. Ten years later, it's been adopted by West Point, the Naval Academy, and tied to state scholarships in Florida, Texas, Louisiana, and more.What You'll Learn:• College Board has driven curriculum for over a century and it's not neutral• The SAT and ACT aligned with Common Core in 2015 and that changed everything • CLT evaluates students on the Western intellectual tradition • Education is not job training because we don't know what jobs will exist in 10 years • CLT gave their investor a 20% chance of success and kept going anywayJeremy Tate Founder & CEO, Classical Learning Test Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ 🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/👇 What would change if your school stopped teaching to the SAT?#CLT #ClassicalLearningTest #VirtuousLeaders #ClassicalEducation #EducationReform

They stopped reading.That's what Anthony Schratz discovered after 40 years of mentoring young people. A whole generation has lost the intellectual tools to defend their faith.

So he wrote Paradise Cancelled because the paradise that radical individualism keeps promising is actually a nightmare.What You'll Learn:• The biggest challenge for young people is that they don't read and they lack depth • Individualism inflates one truth until it blocks out everything else • Selfishness always ends in loneliness because we're made for relationships • You need a mentor or coach if you want to break free from the culture • Virtue is built like physiotherapy because it hurts but it healsThe Ernescliff ModelNo phones at meals. Weekly one-on-one mentoring. Family supper every night. Three to four years of intentional formation. It's strict. It works.Anthony Schratz Director, Ernescliff University Residence Author, Paradise Cancelled Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ 🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/👇 What's the one virtue you're working on right now?#ParadiseCancelled #Earnscliffe #VirtuousLeaders #CatholicMentoring #VirtueFormation

Atomic Habits told you how. Aquinas told you which.Dr. Andrew Abela connected the two. The founding dean of the Busch School of Business at Catholic University of America spent years translating Thomas Aquinas for modern professionals, and discovered that the virtues are the super habits behind every meaningful success.What You'll Learn:

• The virtues are the prime habits, everything else is secondary

• Prudence has eight sub-virtues; pick one, practice daily

• Alertness (solertia) is situational awareness, and it's trainable

• Make it easy, make it obvious, make it rewarding

• Chesterton's answer to "What's wrong with the world?"—I amThe Busch School Difference 12 years. $100 million raised. High 90% placement. Graduates making $300K, one making $3 million. Employers keep coming back because virtue-formed students deliver.Andrew Abela Founding Dean, Busch School of Business, Catholic University of America Author, Super Habits Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ 🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/👇 Which virtue are you weakest in?#BuschSchool #Aquinas #SuperHabits #VirtuousLeaders #CatholicBusiness

What if sexual liberation was never about freedom? What if it was always about control?

E. Michael Jones wrote Libido Dominandi 25 years ago. The subtitle tells you everything you need to know. Sexual Liberation and Political Control. The thesis is simple. Sexual passion has been systematically weaponized as a tool of political domination from the French Revolution to the smartphone in your pocket.

The biblical paradigm is Samson and Delilah. Samson was unconquerable. He could not be defeated in battle. But he had a weakness. And when Delilah exploited it, they cut off his hair and enslaved him. Then they cut out his eyes. As Thomas Aquinas says, lust darkens the mind. You become like a raging lion focused only on the antelope. And then you fall into the trap because you were not paying attention.

Jones traces this from the Marquis de Sade to the invention of the camera to Hollywood to the internet. Each technological leap made the distribution of moral subversion more efficient. And now we have the smartphone. The greatest instrument of control in the history of the universe. An entire generation addicted to pornography because they all have cell phones.

What You'll Learn:

• The political mobilization of sexual lust began with the Marquis de Sade and the French Revolution

• The camera solved the technological problem of mass distributing pornography

• Bob Dylan introduced the Beatles to marijuana and changed the direction of American music • The antiwar movement was broken by sex, drugs, and rock and roll

• The smartphone is constant distraction that prevents you from formulating coherent thoughts

• Our hope is in the Lord and there is reason to be optimistic

E. Michael Jones

Founder, Culture Wars Magazine & Author of Libido Dominandi

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👇 How do you protect yourself and your family from the smartphone trap?

Fr. David Guffey is the national director of Family Theater Productions, a Catholic media apostolate creating content since 1947. Documentaries. Digital series. Feature films.

All designed to open hearts to God and to the wonder of family.And according to Fr. David, it is actually a great time to be making faith-based content.What You'll Learn:• Family Theater Productions has been creating Catholic media since 1947• Hollywood is a business and if you prove there is an audience they will follow • Social media is designed to divide and most divisive posts come from a few sources • Distribution is harder than financing right now even with all the platforms • If you find media that feeds your soul then pay for it and tell people about itFr. David Guffey, C.S.C. National Director, Family Theater Productions Dr. Johann D'Souza Clinical Psychologist & Host 🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/🔗 https://www.valuesfirsttherapy.com/ 🔗 https://www.valuesfirstcollective.com/ 🔗 https://www.linkedin.com/in/johanndsouza/ 🔗 https://x.com/drjohanndsouza 🔗 https://drjohanndsouza.substack.com/👇 What is the best faith-based film you have ever seen?#FamilyTheaterProductions #VirtuousLeaders #CatholicFilm #FaithBasedMedia #HollywoodCatholics