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The Priesthood of Christ and Your Beatitude - Fr. Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Thomas Aquinas Pickett, O.P., explains how Christ’s eternal priesthood fulfills the human desire for beatitude by reconciling humanity to God thr…
9 hours ago
Words Matter: Thomas Aquinas on the Philosophy of Language - Prof. Catherine Peters
Season 13
Prof. Catherine Peters unpacks Thomas Aquinas’s philosophy of language and reveals how the words we use do more than describe reality: they shape wha…
3 days, 9 hours ago
If God Doesn’t Exist, Science is Impossible - Dr. Wes Siscoe
Season 13
Dr. Wes Siscoe tackles a big question in science and philosophy, arguing that the very fact that nature follows stable, intelligible laws points beyo…
4 days, 9 hours ago
Thomas Aquinas on Vocational Discernment - Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy brings Aquinas into the urgent modern conversation about vocation, showing why the path to a call is not endless hesitation but …
5 days, 9 hours ago
Can Computers Think? - Prof. Steven Jensen
Season 13
Prof. Steven Jensen asks whether computers can really think, and he argues that while machines can imitate reasoning and behavior associated with tho…
6 days, 9 hours ago
What is Truth? - Prof. Paige Hochschild
Season 13
Prof. Paige Hochschild explores what truth is and shows, through Tolkien, how truth arises from the mind’s encounter with reality, how myth can revea…
1 week ago
Do You Need to be Smart to be Holy? - Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.
This lecture was given on June 27th, 2026, at Dominican House of Studies.
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1 week, 3 days ago
The Catholic Faith and Golf - Prof. Michael Pakaluk
Season 13
Prof. Michael Pakaluk compares Catholicism and golf in order to show how a game often dismissed as “useless” can become a surprisingly rich school of…
1 week, 3 days ago
Contemplating the Presence of God - Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy shows how Thomas Aquinas helps Catholics contemplate the presence of God in nature, grace, and the Incarnation, so that ordinary…
1 week, 4 days ago
St. Leo the Great on Love of the Poor and the Weak - Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.
This lecture was given on May 3rd, 2026, at Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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1 week, 5 days ago