For Advent, the Catholic Biblical School Recommends—

Hark! The Herald Prophets Sing: The Prophets on the Sundays of Advent
(Jeremiah, Baruch, Zephaniah and Micah)

Where? St. Patrick and St. Anthony Parish, Hartford
When? Sat., December 5, 9-3 and Sunday 1-3 pm

Hartford CBS at the Religious Education Congress

Join BJ and a team of CBS graduates at the Archdiocese of Hartford Religious Education Congress on November 7 at St. Paul Catholic High School in Bristol. We will be exhibiting from 8:00-9:00 am and 12:00-1:30 pm, and BJ will lead a workshop entitled "How to Foster in Children a Lifelong Devotion to the Bible."

For more information or to register for the Congress, click here: RE Congress 2009. For information in Spanish, click here: Congreso Catequético Anual de 2009.

To Go Back Wholly in Spirit...

... to those remote centuries of the East (Pope Pius XII, Divino Afflante Spiritu 35) ....

The goal of biblical studies is to enable us to "go back wholly in spirit" to biblical times so that we can encounter the Word both as it was given in that time and as it might be interpreted today.

In order to do this, we need to exercise our imaginations.

Accreditation Visit from the Connecticut Department of Higher Education

On Monday, October 19, 2009, the Catholic Biblical School and St. Thomas Seminary will receive members of the Accreditation Review Board appointed by the State of Connecticut. This review is the second step in the process of becoming accredited as a higher education certificate program. We expect to complete the process by Fall, 2010.

Biblical School at Catholic Educators Conference

The Hartford Catholic Biblical School will sponsor an exhibit at the Hartford Archdiocesan Catholic Educators Conference on October 20-21 at St. Paul High School in Bristol, CT. Did you know that Catholic school teachers in the Archdiocese of Hartford can fulfill their Biblical Studies certification requirements through the Biblical School?

9-11 in Biblical Proportions

Eight years after the shocking events of 9-11, the tragedy of our divided world remains a source of anguish among people of good will—not just in the United States, but all over the world. I’m reminded of two gospel passages that speak of how religion can be a source of either division or unity for our world.


From Matthew 10:34-36, we have a very troubling saying of Jesus: “Do not suppose that I have come to bring peace to the earth. I did not come to bring peace, but a sword. For I have come to turn a man against his father, a daughter against