Ryan Topping

In preparation for the 2025 Renewing Culture Conference, "Educating for Virtue", groups across Canada met to discuss C.S. Lewis' Abolition of Man. The Institute provided a study guide, but otherwise groups were free to establish their own terms - typically meeting between one and three times. Numerous participants have expressed hopes for another study soon. Below are pictures of a few of the groups. Look out for our 2026 studies soon to be announced!

The first ever St. Gregory Folk Music Camp was a glorious success. The two and half day camp featured Morning Prayer, virtue talks,...

Families joined participants for Sunday brunch On July 3-4 , some 30 professionals from across Canada met together to pray and discuss great texts from the Catholic intellectual tradition. This year's theme was "Renewing Culture." Seminar participants read and discussed texts from Benedict XVI, Gregory the Great, the Russian short story writer Anton Chekov, the American English professor John Senior, John Paul II, and the contemporary political philosopher Patrick Deneen. Fr Frank Sharma,...