LOL! For a second, I thought you meant St. John’s UNIVERSITY in Queens, New York, New York, the school so liberal it got excommunicated from Catholicism. In New York. Let that sink in a little bit.
Did you see the curriculum?
Sophomore year
* The Bible
* Aristotle: On Interpretation, Prior Analytics, Categories
* Apollonius: Conics
* Virgil: Aeneid
* Plutarch: Caesar and Cato the Younger
* Epictetus: Discourses, Manual
* Tacitus: Annals
* Ptolemy: Almagest
* Plotinus: The Enneads
* Lucretius: On the Nature of Things
* Augustine of Hippo: Confessions
* Anselm of Canterbury: Proslogion
* Thomas Aquinas: Summa Theologiae, Summa Contra Gentiles
* Dante: Divine Comedy
* Geoffrey Chaucer: Canterbury Tales
* Josquin Des Prez: Mass
* Niccolò Machiavelli: The Prince, Discourses on Livy
* Nicolaus Copernicus: On the Revolutions of the Spheres
* Martin Luther: On the Freedom of a Christian
* François Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
* Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina: Missa Papae Marcelli
* Michel de Montaigne: Essays
* François Viète: Introduction to the Analytical Art
* Francis Bacon: Novum Organum, New Atlantis
* William Shakespeare: Richard II, Henry IV, Henry V, The Tempest, As You Like It, Hamlet, Othello, Macbeth, King Lear, Coriolanus, Sonnets
* Poems by: Andrew Marvell, John Donne, and other 16th- and 17th-century poets
* René Descartes: Geometry, Discourse on Method
* Blaise Pascal: Generation of Conic Sections
* Johann Sebastian Bach: St. Matthew Passion, Inventions
* Joseph Haydn: Quartets
* Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Operas
* Ludwig van Beethoven: Sonatas
* Franz Schubert: Songs
* Igor Stravinsky: Symphony of Psalms
Now that’s what I call conservative!