Why are relationships so central to human flourishing? The Harvard study reveals the empirical reality, but Catholic theology explains the deeper reason: humans are made by relationship, for relationship. This isn’t just beneficial happenstance, it’s an ontological reality rooted in the very nature of God Himself. God is Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

First, everyday beauty can help shape the way our students think about their own small spaces within the larger school environment. Scruton notes that our judgments about the harmony and integration of things that occupy a space are “the unavoidable consequence of taking life seriously, and becoming truly conscious of our affairs.”