Catholic Courses I’ve Done

This list is as much for my own reference as anything else. Also, yeah – I’m “really Catholic.” Since I was unchurched, I deliberately read and learn from both ‘sides’ of the Church; traditional and Vatican II.

Catholic Social Teaching – a six week evening class 2016 at the Sisters of St. Joseph Motherhouse on Monghan Road
Instructor: Sr Mary Rowell, CSJ

From St Peter to Pope Leo the Great – a six week evening class 2016 at the Motherhouse
Instructor: a PhD student lecturer

Biblical Scholarship The New Testament – an undergraduate course I audited 2018
Instructor: Doug Finbow at Sacred Heart College, Peterborough

Biblical Scholarship The Old Testatment – an undergraduate course I audited 2018
Instructor: Doug Finbow at Sacred Heart College, Peterborough

Theology of the Body – a weekend course at Trent University’s Sadlier House, organized by the Diocese of Peterborough 2018
Instructor: Sr Helena Burns, Daughters of St Paul

Summer School at Holy Family Church in Parkdale, Toronto presented by the Toronto Oratory. It is a week long intensive on a particular topic.
2019 Week 1 The Catechism and Week 2 John Henry Newman in 2019
2020 Week 2 The First Four Ecumenical Councils
Instructors: Priests and brothers from the Toronto Oratory

The RCIA program at Holy Family Church – a year long course of weekly Zoom lectures that I followed two years in a row 2021, 2022
Instructors: Priests and deacons from Holy Family Church and the Toronto Oratory

Shall We Talk About Trust? International Conference at Saint Paul University 2024

Webinars from St Paul University Centre for Safeguarding and Canon Law Centre 2023, 2024, 2025

Bible-in-a-Year Reading Plan and podcast – self-study 2025
Fr Mike Schmidt and Ascension Press