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Episode 103
Did you know there's a hotel in NYC named after Pope Leo XIII? The Leo House was founded in the 1880s as a boarding house for German Catholic immigra…
4 years, 11 months ago
Becoming Cultured Without a Bow Tie - James Matthew Wilson
Episode 102
Poet-philosopher James Matthew Wilson returns to the show to read poems from his new collection, The Strangeness of the Good, including his "Quaranti…
4 years, 11 months ago
The Non-Reactionary Tolkien - Holly Ordway
Episode 101
J.R.R. Tolkien is commonly perceived as a reactionary who totally rejected the modern world, and whose literary influences began and ended with the M…
4 years, 11 months ago
100 - The Singular - Samuel Hazo
Episode 100
We celebrate our 100th episode with the return of a favorite Catholic Culture Podcast guest, former Pennsylvania Poet Laureate Samuel Hazo. At 92, Sa…
5 years ago
Episode 0 - The Nightingale - Mark Christopher Brandt
To celebrate the approach of Episode 100 of the Catholic Culture Podcast, here is the interview that started it all. Originally published on August 4…
5 years ago
Ashes and Elitists - Gail Finke
Episode 99
This Ash Wednesday, following a note from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, many American parishes did not distribute ashes in …
5 years ago
An Anglo-Saxon Bard - Benjamin Bagby
Episode 98
Famous for his chanted performances of Beowulf in the original Old English, Benjamin Bagby is the closest thing you'll find today to an Anglo-Saxon b…
5 years, 1 month ago
The Hierarchy of Being in Natural Science - Daniel Toma
Episode 97
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BatWN05pP1I
Catholic geneticist Daniel Toma is the author of Vestige of Eden, Image of Eternity: Common Experience…
5 years, 1 month ago
Hillbilly Thomists - Joseph Hagan, O.P.
Episode 96
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4Uv7MvEHixg
The Hillbilly Thomists, a bluegrass group entirely composed of Dominican friars, have just released th…
5 years, 1 month ago
Fighting Pervasive Religious Indifferentism - Ralph Martin
Episode 95
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zkfJ-gSMdUg
Today's Catholic culture is marked by a profound and settled religious indifferentism. Among many Cath…
5 years, 1 month ago