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The First Adeodatus Conference
on Catholic Education and Culture
Major Sources of Catholic Education and its Renewal
Addressing the Fundamentals of Catholic Education
Practically | For Primary & Secondary Educators & Leaders
June 21 – 24, 2023 | Pasadena, California
Note of Thanks:
Profound thanks to all of our wonderful celebrants, musicians, speakers, conferees, sponsors, volunteers, and vendors! The Inaugural Adeodatus Conference on Catholic Education & Culture was a tremendous success, and we will have the online library ready shortly.
Our Heartfelt Gratitude to:
Our Magnanimous Host, Fr. Marcos Gonzalez,
The Most Reverend José H. Gomez,
The Very Reverend Dom Elias Carr, can.reg.
The Most Reverend Timothy E. Freyer, d.d.
for Most Reverent Celebrations of Adeodatus Conference Masses
For the Next 25 Adeodatus Online Library Registrants:
A Signed Copy of Gil Bailie’s New Book
Register using the Streaming Option for either individuals or schools between July 10-31 to receive a copy by mail. The conference library will contain all talks, sermons, interviews, an additional talk by Fr. Spitzer, learning paths through the curriculum, and many additional resources.
Drinking with the Saints Cocktail:
Mike & Alexandra Foley have crafted The Adeodatus Cocktail, which will be served at our opening reception on June 21.
The Adeodatus is a pear-flavored cocktail that echoes Lady Continence & Lady Wisdom from Drinking with the Saints.
Here is Mike & Alexandra’s video on the cocktail.
Video Library Bonus:
A lively conversation between Andrew Kern & Andrew Seeley on epic literature and its educational importance. One of the two Andrews may make a strong canonical case for Tolkien.
[All in-person attendees, streaming, and online conference library registrants will receive this video.]
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Pater Edmund Waldstein
Ron McArthur & The Berquists
Fr. Robert Spitzer
St. Ignatius Loyola & the Ratio Studiorum
Michael Naughton
Don briel & Catholic Studies
David P. Deavel
St. Benedict
Dale Ahlquist
G.K. Chesterton
Fabio Reali
St. Francis
Margarita Mooney Clayton
Jacques Maritian &.Luigi Giussani
Andrew T. Seeley
Christopher Dawson
Paul Shrimpton
St. John Henry Newman
David M. Whalen
John Senior
Deal W. Hudson
Mortimer Adler & Jacques Barzun
R. J. Snell
Bernard Lonergan
Fr. Sebastian Walshe
Charles De Koninck
Josef Froula
St. Dominic & St. Thomas Aquinas
R. Jared Staudt
Education in the Bible
James Matthew Wilson
Plato
Michael Waldstein
Jesus the Teacher & The Holy Spirit, Advocate
Andrew Kern
Homer and Virgil
Edward Feser
Aristotle
Michael P. Foley
St. Augustine
Arthur Hippler
The Church’s Teaching on Education
Joe Heschmeyer
St. John Baptist de la Salle & St. John Bosco
Jeffrey S. Lehman
Augustine Institute
David Clayton
SACRED ARTS
PRE-CONFERENCE PROGRAM TO BENEFIT THE FOUNDING OF GAUDI ACADEMY
(SEPARATE $50 ADMISSION)
Brandon Cook
About Adeodatus
Adeodatus is an educational nonprofit organized to support the ongoing renewal of Catholic liberal education through conferences, community-building, publication, consulting, and due diligence.
Our first major project is a three-year cycle of conferences on the sources, methods, curricula, and cultures of American Catholic liberal education.
In 2023, we will trace the major sources of Catholic liberal education and celebrate the key figures in its renewal in America over recent decades. Each talk will focus on the practical importance of a major source in the Catholic educational tradition for teachers and school leaders today.
In 2024, we will again take up Catholic educational principles (have already seen their place in the educational philosophies and practices of our major figures), and reflect on themes, curricula, pedagogy, and culture.
And in 2025, we will gather dozens of educators, leaders, and creators – teachers, headmasters, superintendents, pastors, artists, writers, and philosophers of education – for wide-ranging conversations to share their wisdom and advice for the future of Catholic education and culture.
We will be staging cultural events at each conference, including concerts, plays, and newly commissioned artworks.

In addition to a stellar lineup of keynote speakers for the 2023 conference, we are thrilled to partner with artist, author, and iconographer David Clayton for a fundraising talk/demonstration to support the creation of a Catholic Sacred Arts Academy by Brandon Cook here in Los Angeles.
Mass will be celebrated each day at Saint Andrew Church, one of the sacred art and architecture treasures of Southern California, and we are very pleased to announce that our closing Mass will mark the Los Angeles premiere of Frank La Rocca’s Mass of the Americas. Frank will be joining us for the Mass and will say a few introductory words.
We will expand on the live contributions of each conference with additional contributions and supplemental resources, and produce one volume of the Adeodatus Handbook on Catholic Education & Culture for each year.
Having gathered the collective wisdom of hundreds of educators by the end of our conference cycle, we will then publish a manifesto on the future of Catholic education in America.
And all along the way, we will foster a live and online community of educators sharing their love of Catholic liberal education and culture with one another.
We will support that online community of friends with many new resources each year, building a substantial library of resources over time.
We hope you will join us in this great renewal!
Please contact Alex@Adeodatus.com with any questions.

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Mass of the Americas Sponsor
Cantwell Foundation
St. Augustine Sponsors
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St. Monica Sponsors
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Pater Edmund Waldstein
Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. is a monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Stift Heiligenkreuz in Austria, lecturer in moral theology at the Phil.-Theol. Hochschule Benedikt XVI., the Abbey’s theological institute, and director of the János-Brenner-Haus. He is a fellow of the Dialogos Institute in Norcia, Italy, and a guest instructor at the International Theological Institute in Trumau, Austria. Born in Italy and raised in the United States and Austria, he studied at Thomas Aquinas College in California, the Hochschule Benedikt XVI in Heiligenkreuz, and the University of Vienna, where he was promoted doctor of theology in 2019. His research has focused on eudemonism, the common good, Catholic integralism, and theological readings of literary fiction (especially of David Foster Wallace).

Fr. Robert Spitzer

Dr. Michael Naughton

David P. Deavel

Dr. Dale Ahlquist
He is also the co-founder of Chesterton Academy, a top-rated Catholic classical high school in Minnesota, which is the flagship school of the Chesterton Schools Network, which now includes over sixty schools in five countries.

Fabio Reali

Margarita Mooney Clayton

Andrew T. Seeley

Dr. Paul Shrimpton

David M. Whalen

Deal W. Hudson

R. J. Snell

Fr. Sebastian Walshe

Dr. Josef Froula

R. Jared Staudt

James Matthew Wilson

Michael Waldstein

Andrew Kern

Edward Feser

Michael P. Foley

Arthur Hippler

Joe Heschmeyer
While at School of Faith, Joe focused primarily on formation for the Kansas City Archdiocese’s elementary and high school teachers. He also spent a year helping to manage the Catholic Spiritual Mentorship program.
Prior to his work at Holy Family, he discerned the priesthood from 2012-17 for the Archdiocese of Kansas City. During that time, he earned both a bachelor’s degree in philosophy from Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis and a degree in sacred theology (S.T.B.) from Rome’s Pontifical North American College.
A regular contributor to Catholic Answers Live, Catholic Answers Focus, and Catholic Answers Magazine (print and online) even before joining the apostolate, Joe has blogged at his own “Shameless Popery” website and co-hosted a weekly show called “The Catholic Podcast.”
To date, he has authored three books, including Pope Peter for Catholic Answers Press.
A former practicing attorney in Washington, D.C., Joe received his Juris Doctor degree from Georgetown University in 2010 after earning a bachelor’s degree in history from Topeka’s Washburn University.
Joe and his wife, Anna, and along with their children reside in the Kansas City area. In his free time, Joe enjoys reading, listening to podcasts, and tormenting his loved ones with terrible puns.

David Clayton

Brandon Cook

The Very Reverend Dom Elias Carr

Catherine Neumayr, Head of School, St. Joseph Catholic Academy, St. Joseph, MO.
Miss Neumayr graduated from the St. Ignatius Institute of the University of San Francisco after spending her junior year abroad at Oxford University studying theology, philosophy, and literature under the Dominicans. She earned a Master’s in Education from Pepperdine University, and taught at La Reina in Thousand Oaks, California before guiding Holy Rosary Academy in Anchorage, Alaska as principal and now serving as head of school at St. Joseph Catholic Academy in St. Joseph, Missouri.
