Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchThe Neo-Colonial West Is Forcing Abortion on Africa - Obianuju Ekeocha
Episode 41
Western governments and NGOs are pushing the Sexual Revolution on Africa, using strings-attached development aid. Of all the funds from Western natio…
6 years, 9 months ago
Tolkien and Aquinas - Jonathan S. McIntosh
Episode 40
Tolkien is well known to have been concerned with the internal consistency of his fictional world, from geography to history to language. But he was …
6 years, 9 months ago
Composing Liturgical Music That's Noble, Accessible... and Sacred - Paul Jernberg
Episode 39
Paul Jernberg is a composer of sacred music and director of the Magnificat Institute, which offers education in the patrimony of Catholic liturgical …
6 years, 9 months ago
The Sacred Monster - Matthew K. Minerd
Episode 38
The name of Garrigou-Lagrange has long been a byword for a fusty, rigid Thomism of days gone by, allegedly more concerned with centuries of accretion…
6 years, 10 months ago
Sculpting Two Benedicts - Jago
Episode 37
The young Italian sculptor Jago is best known to Catholics for his marble bust of Pope Benedict XVI, which the Pope himself awarded with a pontifical…
6 years, 10 months ago
Bridges to Hell or Heaven: "Toxic Femininity" and the Spirit of Anti-Mary - Carrie Gress
Episode 36
One of the core things that has gone wrong with our culture in the past several decades is the denigration of every virtue associated with the perfec…
6 years, 10 months ago
Moral Blindness and Abortion - Abby Johnson
Episode 35
Abby Johnson was the youngest clinic director in Planned Parenthood history. After witnessing an abortion on ultrasound, she quit, became a Catholic,…
6 years, 11 months ago
The Memoirs of St. Peter - Michael Pakaluk
Episode 34
Michael Pakaluk has written a new translation and commentary of Mark's Gospel. Mark was relating very recent events, with details only an eyewitness …
6 years, 11 months ago
Structure and Freedom in Music and in Christ - Mark Christopher Brandt
Episode 33
The quest for freedom in structure is fundamental to Catholic spiritual life (particularly during this season of Lent). It's also fundamental to musi…
6 years, 11 months ago
Antoni Gaudí, Patron Saint of Architects? - Gabriela Gonzalez-Cremona
Episode 32
For many people who have never been to Spain, their only image of the country may be the strange spires of Barcelona's La Sagrada Familia, designed b…
7 years ago