Podcast Episodes

New Lives of the Popes podcast

Lives of the Popes on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lives-of-the-popes/id1885968422

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8 hours ago

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Tolkien's Darkest Tale w/ Aaron Irber

Episode 214

The darkest, and perhaps most underrated, story J.R.R. Tolkien ever wrote was the tale of Túrin Turambar, a great man of the First Age of Middle-Eart…

2 days, 12 hours ago

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Pope Leo XIII against Freemasonry

Episode 213

Pope Leo XIII's 1884 encyclical Humanum Genus is the Church's most comprehensive explanation of why, ever since 1738, she has forbidden Catholics to …

1 week, 6 days ago

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Seeking Beauty in the Old World w/ David Henrie

Episode 212

Actor, writer, and director David Henrie (Wizards of Waverly Place, How I Met Your Mother) joins the podcast to talk about his new EWTN travel series…

1 month, 1 week ago

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Phil Lawler on four decades of independent Catholic journalism

Episode 211

Veteran Catholic journalist Phil Lawler recently retired as the editor of Catholic World News at CatholicCulture.org. Phil was the first lay editor o…

1 month, 2 weeks ago

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Resisting modernist "demolition troops": Ida Friederieke Görres

Episode 210

Ida Friederieke Görres is little-known to English-speaking Catholics (except perhaps for her biography of St. Therese of Lisieux), but she was a majo…

2 months ago

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Leo XIII on what marriage owes to the Church

Episode 209

Thomas Mirus discusses Leo XIII's 1880 encyclical Arcanum, on Christian marriage. This was "the first formal and synoptic teaching on marriage since …

2 months, 2 weeks ago

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Edgelords, Profanity, & Taming the Tongue w/ Matthew Schmitz

Episode 208

For the past century or more, the left has put a high value on moral provocation, deliberately transgressing what they see as society's hypocritical …

3 months ago

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Christian Poetry Around the Globe w/ Burl Horniachek

Episode 207

To Heaven's Rim is a new anthology of great Christian poetry translated from non-English languages, from the first 18 centuries of the Faith. Editor …

3 months ago

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The Most Dangerous Man in England: Newman and the Laity - Paul Shrimpton

Episode 206

Paul Shrimpton assisted in the process of making St. John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church. He joins the podcast to discuss his involvement in the…

3 months, 3 weeks ago

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