Maryvale—Resurgent!
My Graduation Day in 2011 It has been widely discussed in many and varied circles, that there have been troubles over the last year or so at Birmingham's Maryvale Institute. Maryvale is an institute of higher learning in the arch diocese of Birmingham, renowned for its depth and orthodoxy. When I studied there, Rev. Dr. Richard Conrad told me that the B.A. at Maryvale had more breadth and more depth than the theology degree available at Oxford, and was a fraction of the cost. My own experience certainly bore this out; we studied a huge range of subjects with an emphasis on educating us and not simply achieving an academic degree. As the leading centre of Catholic formation in the country, Maryvale attracts the brightest and best lecturers, many of whom teach in Rome and are religious, thus deeply committed to the founding ideology of the institute for a well educated laity. Maryvale has pioneered a "distance-learning" technique, which facilitates learning at pre-g...
