LIFELONG LEARNING
WITH CHRISTENDOM COLLEGE
The pursuit of wisdom never ends
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.
Events
Christendom Trips
Once-in-a-lifetime opportunities
Major Speaker Program
Expanding horizons
Summer Consortium
Exclusive Event for President’s Council
Christmas at CHRISTENDOM
Celebrate with us
Media
Christendom Media
Videos, podcasts, and more!
Principles
CLEAR THINKING ON CONTEMPORARY ISSUES



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
Upcoming TRIPS
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IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF ST. PAUL: GREECE AND 3-DAY CRUISE ON THE AEGEAN SEA (FULL)
October 16-26, 2019 - CHRISTENDOM IN IRELAND
May 29 – June 7, 2020 - CHRSTENDOM IN BAVARIA
FALL 2020 - FRANCE: DEVOTION TO THE SACRED HEART
SPRING 2021 - CHRISTENDOM IN IRELAND
FALL 2021 - PORTUGAL & SPAIN (Featuring alumni trip on the Camino de Santiago)
SUMMER 2022



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
Upcoming speakers
- September 23, 2019 – Saint Luke’s Productions’ Maximilian: Saint of Auschwitz | A Theatrical Performance Being Held In Memory of Dr. Patrick Keats
- April 6, 2020 – Abby Johnson
Watch and listen to past speakers at media.christendom.edu.



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
Upcoming Consortium
- TRANSFORMING THE CULTURE: THE CATHOLIC CONTRIBUTION
July 10-12 2020



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
THIS YEAR, JOIN US ON
December 6, 2019
Future Christmas at Christendom’s will be held on:
- December 4, 2020
- December 3, 2021




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
PAST ISSUES
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UNDERSTANDING AND RESPONDING TO OUR TRANSGENDER MOMENT
Dr. Ryan Anderson -
A PILGRIM ON THE ROAD OF LIFE
Associate Justice Clarence Thomas - A PEOPLE WITHOUT MELODY
Kurt Poterack - TECHNOLOGY AND THE LANGUAGE OF BODILY PRESENCE
Mary Stanford


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.