Members of the President’s Council, John Paul II Legacy Society, and invited guests can take advantage of the following opportunities to experience the fruit of the Christendom College educational experience.

Christendom Trips

 Once-in-a-lifetime opportunities.

Christendom Trips are led by Dr. Timothy O’Donnell and his wife Cathy, who bring with them decades of travel experience and a wealth of cultural and historical knowledge. The trips offer an opportunity to delve into the history and theological significance of the places and the people that make up the great nations that formed the traditions of Christendom.  Participants are fed both culturally and spiritually, as each trip offers daily Mass, Rosary, and the Chaplet of Divine Mercy. From the Mass Rocks and pubs of Ireland to the catacombs and trattorias of Rome, these trips bring to life the Faith in a vibrant and joyful way.

“Wherever the Catholic sun doth shine, There’s always laughter and good red wine. At least I’ve always found it so. Benedicamus Domino!”
― Hilaire Belloc 

Major Speaker Program

Expanding horizons

At least two major speakers are hosted by the College each semester. Open to members of the President’s Council and Legacy Society Members the program has featured a wide range of speakers including: artists, historians, journalists, lawyers, novelists, philosophers, poets, politicians, psychologists, scientists, statesmen, and theologians. The program highlights thought-leaders who are performing important roles in the Church and in our culture: they are communicators of ideas, heroes and heroines of the active life.

“The study of truth requires a considerable effort – which is why few are willing to undertake it out of love of knowledge – despite the fact that God has implanted a natural appetite for such knowledge in the minds of men.”
― St. ThomAS AQUINAS

Summer Consortium

An Exclusive Event for President’s Council, Legacy Society, and Friends By Invitation

Amid the splendor of the Virginia countryside, a select group embark on an intellectual and spiritual journey representing the height of the Christendom College experience. Participants enjoy excellent food and drink at beautiful locations around the picturesque Front Royal campus, engage in a stimulating and friendly examination and discussion of the deep questions that challenge the Faith, and join in faithful prayer and rich reflection.

“Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about..”
― G.K. Chesterton

Christmas at Christendom

Celebrate with us

Christmas at Christendom is a special opportunity for our President’s Council and Legacy Society members and honored guests to immerse themselves in our campus culture and join the Christendom community in anticipating the birth of Our Lord. Please join us for a day of scheduled events on the campus.

“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the year. I will live in the Past, the Present, and the Future. The Spirits of all Three shall strive within me. I will not shut out the lessons that they teach!”
―Charles DIckens

Principles

CLEAR THINKING ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES

Christendom College embraces Blessed John Henry Newman’s vision of a liberal education that disciplines the intellect and thereby forms good members of society who will bring sound principles to their personal, professional, and civic endeavors. The ends of liberal education are thus both the flourishing of the individual and the renewal of the temporal order. At Principles, we publish essays that serve these ends, bringing the fruits of this formation to bear upon contemporary questions.

“Good is never accomplished except at the cost of those who do it, truth never breaks through except through the sacrifice of those who spread it.”
―Blessed Cardinal Newman

Christendom Media

Videos, podcasts, and more!

Christendom Media (media.christendom.edu) was developed to give you quick and easy access to all the media from our extra-curricular academic programs. Here you can find lectures by Dr. Warren Carroll and collections of our various lecture series as well as our Major Speakers Program. The site is also home to the archives of our Faith and Reason journal that ran from 1975-2005.

“The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a “new creation”, capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.”
―Pope Benedict-XVI