Greetings to all children of God who have come together for this conference.

In Greek mythology, Mnemosyne, or Memory, had several children - Clio, Euterpe, Thalia, Melpomene, Terpsichore, Erato, Polymnia, Urania, and their leader, Calliope. Collectively known as the Muses, they came to be associated with the liberal arts or sciences.

But our expertise lies not so much in the liberal arts as in the spiritual arts. There is one child of Mnemosyne that is no stranger to the Church, and that is Clio, the muse of history. In the Church, Clio appears in two forms: spiritual history, the incarnation of the eternal logos, the Word of God, revealed in the Bible, expounded in Holy Tradition, and immune from time; and secular history, the words of man, offered in books whose interpretation changes from generation to generation.