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Why So Sad? The Sorrows that Kill and the Sorrows that Save – Sr. Anna Wray, O.P.
Season 13
Sr. Anna Wray argues that sorrow can either deform the soul as acedia or save it when rightly faced, and she offers a Thomistic account of how sorrow…
10 hours ago
Wisdom from the Old Testament on Prayer and the Spiritual Life – Fr. Stephen Ryan, O.P.
This lecture was given on February 19th, 2026, at University of Tulsa.
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1 day, 10 hours ago
Why Modern Christians Need the Eucharist – Prof. Michael Dauphinais
Season 13
Prof. Michael Dauphinais contends that modern Christians, formed by empiricism, individualism, and a this‑worldly hope that easily turns to despair, …
4 days, 10 hours ago
Catholic Doctrine and Judaism – Prof. Gavin D'Costa
Season 13
Prof. Gavin D’Costa explains how, since Vatican II, the Catholic Church has rethought its relationship to Judaism by affirming the enduring validity …
5 days, 10 hours ago
Justified by Grace, Works, or Faith? – Prof. Michael Root
Season 13
Prof. Michael Root argues that, in Catholic theology, we are saved wholly by the unmerited grace of Christ, and that this grace brings us into a Spir…
6 days, 10 hours ago
Why the Catholic Church Has Priests – Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Dominic Langevin defends the Catholic priesthood as a divinely willed, sacramental system of mediation in which ordained men, configured to Chris…
1 week ago
Aquinas on Predestination: The Main Issues – Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. John Baptist Ku unpacks St. Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of predestination, showing how God’s universal salvific will, efficacious grace, and real h…
1 week, 1 day ago
Immorality and Immateriality – Prof. Thomas Osborne
Season 13
Prof. Thomas Osborne clarifies how, for Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, the distinctive immateriality of human intellectual knowledge grounds a phi…
1 week, 4 days ago
Beyond Work and Play: Aristotle on Friendship, Contemplation, and The Value of Human Activity – Prof. Marshall Bierson
Season 13
Prof. Marshall Bierson uses Aristotle’s distinction between work, play, and deeper “energetic” activities to argue that friendship and contemplation …
1 week, 5 days ago
St. Thomas Aquinas on Pleasure and the Good Life – Dr. Erik Dempsey
Season 13
Dr. Erik Dempsey explains how St. Thomas Aquinas sees pleasure as a natural and God-given part of the good life, one that both signals our true human…
1 week, 6 days ago