June 22-25, 2026

Steubenville, OH 43952

You’ve wanted to delve deeper into the social doctrine of the Church—subsidiarity, the just wage, the preferential option for the poor.

You've wanted to apply Catholic social teaching to your business, your neighborhood, to the way you spend money, raise children, and participate in politics.

We’re offering a masterclass in order to study and illuminate the Church's social doctrine: those grace-filled principles by which you fulfill your Christian vocation to transform the world into the kingdom of God.

Come to Steubenville, Ohio for a week with leading teachers, philosophers, and theologians dedicated to sharing the Church's vision of a Christian social order and kindling our desire to be fruitful laborers in the vineyard of the Lord.

This course is offered in collaboration with the College of St. Joseph the Worker and Catholic Answers. If you would like to receive college credits for the course, please email us for an assessment at info@collegeofstjoseph.com.

Learn more about the masterclass and our speakers below.

Masterclass Price: $2,495

Price includes Lodging for the duration of the Masterclass.

Registration is limited.

Questions? Please email us at cs@newpolity.com

Would you like to sponsor a priest, seminarian, or student? Please contact us cs@newpolity.com

Andrew Willard Jones holds a PhD in Medieval History from Saint Louis University with a focus on the Church of the High Middle Ages. Jones’s work is primarily concerned with historical political theology and with the reconciliation of the post-modern with the pre-modern. Methodologically, his work treats history as a theological discipline and not as a secular archaeology. Jones is the author of Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in St. Louis IX’s Sacramental Kingdom and the one-volume history of the Catholic Church The Two Cities: A History of Christian Politics. His most recent book The Church Against the State is available now from New Polity Press

Joe Heschmeyer is the host of the Shameless Popery show and an apologist with Catholic Answers. He has a law degree from Georgetown University Law Center in Washington, D.C., a philosophy degree from Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, and a theology degree from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. He enjoys speaking (and debating) on a wide range of issues, including the papacy, the beliefs of the earliest Christians, the Eucharist and sacramental theology, and pro-life issues.

Cy Kellett is the host of Catholic Answers Live. He formerly hosted The Bright Side with Cy Kellett on the Immaculate Heart Radio network. For more than a decade Kellett was editor of San Diego’s diocesan newspaper, The Southern Cross. Before that, he taught high school in and then spent several years working with the homeless mentally ill in Massachusetts while living in a Catholic Worker house. Kellett and his wife, Missy, have three children.

Jacob Imam is the founder of the College of St. Joseph the Worker. He holds a doctorate in theology from the University of Oxford. His work focuses on the ethics of Christian investment and the theology of work. He lives in Steubenville with his wife, Alice, and sons, Blaise, Leo, and Judah.

Marc Barnes is the editor of New Polity magazine, a professor at The College of St. Joseph the Worker, and the president of the Harmonium Project, a nonprofit dedicated to urban revitalization and transformation in Steubenville, Ohio. Marc has written on a number of topics—on gender and family, the Christian approach to money and the stock market, the Christian response to AI, among many others. His book What Children Are For is forthcoming from New Polity Press.

Alex Plato is a Professor at the College of St. Joseph the Worker in Steubenville, Ohio. Plato received a Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies summa cum laude from Corban University (then Western Baptist College) in 2002. His interdisciplinary studies included several areas of concentration: music, theology, philosophy, literature, and education. In 2007, he earned a Master of Arts summa cum laude in the Philosophy of Religion and Ethics from Biola University’s Talbot School of Theology. In December of 2014, at Saint Louis University, he defended, with highest distinction, his dissertation “Anscombe on Double Effect and Absolutism: An Inquiry into Modern Moral Philosophy and Traditional Morality.” His work was directed by Dr. Gregory Beabout.

Alex Denley is a research fellow with New Polity. He holds a Master in Theological Science degree from Franciscan University of Steubenville. He is the co-author, along with Andrew Willard Jones, of a book on the principles of Catholic Social Teaching, and has written essays and reviews in New Polity and The Review of Metaphysics. He was the co-host of the series “The Politics of Paganism” and is the media producer of New Polity Podcast.

Michael Boland is the executive director of New Polity. He has completed a Master's in Theological Studies and PhD coursework at the Pontifical John Paul II Institute; he is a current PhD candidate writing a dissertation under the direction of D.C. Schindler on the political theology of Henri de Lubac. He has taught undergraduate courses primarily in the areas of moral theology and 20th century theology. He has published in New Polity and presented academic papers for conferences hosted by the University of Dallas, the American Catholic Philosophical Association, and the Sacra Doctrina Project.