Virgil Lorenzo

Fr . José María Arizmendiarrieta (1915–1976) developed these 10 principles in the 1940s–1950s while working with the Young Adult Ministry (Jóvenes de Acción Católica) in his Mondragón parish. He drew directly from the Gospel’s vision of the Kingdom of God and the emerging body of Catholic Social Teaching (CST), especially Rerum Novarum (1891), Quadragesimo Anno (1931), and Mater et Magistra (1961). These principles formed the ethical foundation of the Mondragón Cooperative Movement. Below,...

Dear Learning Hub Families—those 10–20 dedicated households in your Qualified Opportunity Zone (QOZ) community, Picture this: Your neighborhood isn't just a place to live—it's a launchpad. A small, tight-knit collective of families training together like a Starfleet crew on a multi-generational voyage to the Goldilocks Zone of the next star system. Here on Earth, in distressed census tracts designated as QOZs, you're turning affordable housing, clean energy, food security, resource recycling,...

For Cadet Alejandro and Principal Laura Salgado – Because SAHD Families Deserve Courses Built for the Future Dear Cadet Alejandro and Mrs. Salgado, Imagine a high-school cadet and his mom sitting at the kitchen table, scrolling through course options, and suddenly finding one that doesn’t just check a box—it lights up the entire vision of Starfleet Academy Homeschool Division. That course is Cooperative Leadership 101: Foundations in Cooperative Models and Ethical Leadership. It’s rolling...