Catholic Educators CST Masterclass

Equipping High School Educators to teach Catholic Social Teaching with excellence

July 12-15, 2027

STEUBENVILLE, OH 43952

You’ve wanted to delve deeper into the social doctrine of the Church—subsidiarity, the just wage, the preferential option for the poor.

You've wanted to teach more than just theology of the body. You want your high school students to develop a rich love and appreciation for Catholic Social Teaching.

We’re offering a masterclass to equip high school educators to do just that: teach a course to their students which will lay a foundation upon which they will build for many years to come.

Come to Steubenville, Ohio for a week with leading educators, headmasters, philosophers, and theologians dedicated to sharing the Church's vision of a Christian social order and kindling our desire to be fruitful laborers in the vineyard of the Lord.

If you would like to receive college credits for the course, please email us for an assessment at info@collegeofstjoseph.com.

Learn more about the masterclass and the course teachers below.

Masterclass Price: $2,500

Price includes Lodging for the duration of the Masterclass.

Registration is limited.

Questions? Please email us at info@collegeofstjoseph.com

Would you like to sponsor a teacher, headmaster or priest? Please contact us at info@collegeofstjoseph.com

TEACHERS | OUTLINE | SCHEDULE | DETAILS

Andrew Willard Jones holds a PhD in Medieval History from Saint Louis University with a focus on the Church of the High Middle Ages. Jones’s work is primarily concerned with historical political theology and with the reconciliation of the post-modern with the pre-modern. Methodologically, his work treats history as a theological discipline and not as a secular archaeology. Jones is the author of Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in St. Louis IX’s Sacramental Kingdom and the one-volume history of the Catholic Church The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics. His most recent book The Church Against the State is available now from New Polity Press

Jacob Imam is the founder of the College of St. Joseph the Worker. He holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford. His work focuses on the ethics of Christian investment and the theology of work. He lives in Steubenville with his wife, Alice, and sons, Blaise, Leo, and Judah.

Marc Barnes is the editor of New Polity magazine, a professor at The College of St. Joseph the Worker, and the president of the Harmonium Project, a nonprofit dedicated to urban revitalization and transformation in Steubenville, Ohio. Marc has written on a number of topics—on gender and family, the Christian approach to money and the stock market, the Christian response to AI, among many others. His book What Children Are For is forthcoming from New Polity Press.

Alex Plato is a Professor at the College of St. Joseph the Worker in Steubenville, Ohio. Plato received a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies summa cum laude from Corban University (then Western Baptist College) in 2002. His interdisciplinary studies included several areas of concentration: music, theology, philosophy, literature, and education. In 2007, he earned a Master of Arts summa cum laude in the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Biola University’s Talbot School of Theology. In December of 2014, at Saint Louis University, he defended, with highest distinction, his dissertation “Anscombe on Double Effect and Absolutism: An Inquiry into Modern Moral Philosophy and Traditional Morality.” His work was directed by Dr. Gregory Beabout.

Dr. Jared Isaac Goff is professor of philosophical theology at the College of St. Joseph the Worker in Steubenville, Ohio and professor of dogmatic theology at Ss. Cyril & Methodius Byzantine Catholic Seminary in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as well as, an adjunct instructor in theology at the Franciscan School of Theology (University of San Diego). He received his Ph.D. in Historical Theology from Saint Louis University in 2013. He recently completed an English translation with Wayne Hellman of Bonaventure’s Sentence Commentary writings on the theological virtues and finished editing the eight-volume Collected Essays of Peter Damian Fehlner, O.F.M. Conv. He recently submitted for publication a book on the theology of creation.

Masterclass Outline and Syllabus

Format

Each day includes three talks, two breakout sessions, and a closing panel with the speakers from the day. The talks will include the essential topics of Catholic Social Teaching given by our speakers, and will include time for questions. The breakout sessions will include small-group time with the presenters. Participants will be divided into small-groups with one of the day’s lecturers, to allow time for discussion, address your questions, and provide insight into how to apply the principles of Catholic Social Teaching to your particular situation. On the final day, we will have a CST Workshop that will bring together the lectures into how to take practical steps to applying CST to your work, business, family-life, and vocation.

Monday - Introduction to Catholic Social Teaching

Includes Intro to CST 1–3. Topics covered: A cosmic vision of power and relationships, man as essentially social; against individualism and collectivism; friendship, hierarchy and vocation; the common good, the meaning of justice, solidarity and self-gift; subsidiarity and virtue against “The State”; ideologies of liberalism, socialism, and nationalism in Catholic social teaching

READINGS

  • Selections from Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum; Pope John Paul II, Centesimus Annus.

Tuesday - Politics

Includes Politics 1–3. Topics covered: Philosophy, Law, and sin; Liberal individualistic freedom vs. Christian freedom as a social structure; The Spiritual and Temporal Powers; Post-Modernity and the Return of Pagan Tyranny; Politics in a post-Christian Society.

READINGS

Wednesday - Economics

Includes Economics 1–3. Topics covered: Ideology and Property; Capitalism and the Universal Destination of all Goods; the Preferential Option for the Poor; Integral Human Development; the Just Wage; Globalization; Technocracy.

READINGS

Thursday - Family

Includes Family 1–2. Topics covered: Family as the basic pattern of society; scaling up the fractal pattern; Abortion as apotheosis of the Unjust society; Contraception and Natural Family Planning; Gender and the relation of man and woman; In vitro fertilization; the nature of the Marital union.

READINGS

CST Workshop

On Thursday, we aim to answer the question: “How does CST affect my vocation?” We will begin with a final breakout session, and then have all participants together for questions regarding the talks, particular problems that you have, and charting a way to integrate CST into your work, business, and family life.

Schedule

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE

Locations

Monday, July 12

Morning Prayer

Lecture

Lecture

Breakout Session

Lunch

Breakout Session

Lecture

Panel

Evening Prayer

8:45a-9:00a

9.00a-10.00a

10.15p–11.15p

11.30p-12.00p

12.00-1:30p

1.30-2.00p

2.15p–3.45p

4.00p-4.45p

4:45p-5:00p

Intro to CST 1: Social Doctrine

Intro to CST 2: The Social Encyclical Tradition

Intro to CST 3: The New Evangelization

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Tuesday, July 13

Morning Prayer

Lecture

Lecture

Breakout Session

Lunch

Breakout Session

Lecture

Panel

Evening Prayer

8:45a-9:00a

9.00a-10.00a

10.15p–11.15p

11.30p-12.00p

12.00-1:30p

1.30-2.00p

2.15p–3.45p

4.00p-4.45p

4:45p-5:00p

Politics 1: The Common Good

Politics 2: Power

Politics 3: Hierarchy

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Wednesday, July 14

Morning Prayer

Lecture

Lecture

Breakout Session

Lunch

Breakout Session

Lecture

Panel

Evening Prayer

8:45a-9:00a

9.00a-10.00a

10.15p–11.15p

11.30p-12.00p

12.00-1:30p

1.30-2.00p

2.15p–3.45p

4.00p-4.45p

4:45p-5:00p

Economy 1: Money

Economy 2: Labor and Property

Economy 3: Christian Economy and Solidarity

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Thursday, July 16

Morning Prayer

Lecture

Lecture

Breakout Session

Lunch

CST Workshop

Lecture

Evening Prayer

Closing Reception

8:45a-9:00a

9:00a-10:00a

10:15p-11:15p

11:30p-12:00p

12:00-1:30p

1:30-4:30p

2:15p–3:45p

4:45p-5:00p

6:00p-9:00p

Family 1: Christian Marriage

Family 2: The Culture of Death

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