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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…
17 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, 17 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, 17 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, 17 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, 17 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