You won't fall asleep in the San Damiano classroom. Recovering an educational model from the days of St. Thomas Aquinas, San Damiano takes an active, dialectical, disputation-oriented approach to learning. Students come to class ready to stand and argue with each other and the faculty for or against important claims found in the greatest works written by the brightest minds and most passionate hearts of the western world.

We read Scripture in union with sacred tradition and the magisterium of the Catholic Church. The inspired word of God offers an integral narrative of all salvation history that students learn to understand as a whole by working through the narrative arc of Old and New Testament over two semsters.

Discovering and defending the truth about God and all He has revealed in Christ Jesus is no easy feat. Students will investigate the Church's chief dogmatic controversies and their solutions.

"Good teacher, what must I do to be saved?" From the Fundamental moral principles to applied situations, students will understand and winsomely defend the timeless moral truth revealed by the Word and taught by the Church's magisterial authority.

Joseph taught Jesus with calloused hands but a heart aflame with love. He never speaks a word in the Gospel. John the Baptist spoke the truth in and out of season. Though contrasting in many ways, both are paragons of masculinity in Scripture.

Especially in our current cultural milieu that identifies masculinity as almost everywhere "toxic," men are left wondering what the nature and goodness of manhood might be. We study the Church's tradition on what it means to be human, what it means to be a man, and how the dignity of work fits into a vocation of man as human and man as masculine.