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Back to Search'The greatest of all God's works': Justification in Catholic Theology – Prof. Matthew Thomas
Season 12
Prof. Matthew Thomas explains why justification—God’s transformative act of making sinners righteous in Christ by grace through faith and incorporation into the Church—is, for Aquinas, greater even t…
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Can Divine Providence Be Known Through Natural Reason? The Classics' Response – Prof. Carlos A. Casanova
Season 12
Prof. Carlos A. Casanova argues that a properly understood Aristotelian–Platonic metaphysics of form, final causality, and nature allows human reason, without biblical revelation, to infer a governin…
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Living Mary's Mediation through De Montfort’s 'Total Consecration' – Fr. John Langlois, O.P.
Season 12
Fr. John Langlois presents Saint Louis de Montfort’s Marian spirituality of “total consecration” as the surest, easiest, and most secure way to live Mary’s maternal mediation and grow in intimate uni…
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The History of Devotion to Mary: She Who Leads Us to Jesus – Fr. John Langlois, O.P.
Season 12
Fr. John Langlois traces how Marian doctrine and devotion—from Scripture and the early Fathers through medieval councils, liturgy, and architecture—culminate in the rosary as a Christ-centered, bibl…
Published on 2 weeks, 3 days ago
Is Free Will an Illusion? – Prof. Joshua Hochschild
This lecture was given on October 10th, 2025, at St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village.
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Published on 2 weeks, 6 days ago
Happiness and Virtue: Can it be Good for You to Be Bad? – Prof. Thomas Osborne
Season 12
Prof. Thomas Osborne argues that, on an Aristotelian–Thomistic account of human nature, it is never truly good for you to be bad, because vice damages your very being as a rational, social creature o…
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Virtue and the Meaningful Life – Dr. David McPherson
Season 12
Dr. David McPherson argues that human beings are “meaning-seeking animals” and that an adequate neo-Aristotelian ethics must see the virtues as constitutive of a meaningful life ordered to strong goo…
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St. Thomas Aquinas: His Life, Wisdom, and Relevance Today – Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.
Season 12
Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy presents Aquinas as a medieval theologian whose love of Scripture, clear metaphysics of happiness, integrated view of body and soul, and profound Eucharistic devotion offer urgen…
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Why We Need the Saints – Prof. Adam Eitel
Season 12
Prof. Adam Eitel argues that God’s divine pedagogy makes the examples of the saints indispensable for our salvation, since their concrete, imperfect yet graced lives teach us how to endure sorrow, gr…
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Does Marketing Make Us Less Human? – Dr. John-Paul Heil
Season 12
Dr. John-Paul Heil critiques modern marketing’s implicit anthropology, explaining that marketing driven by manipulation, simulation, and quantity undermines human dignity, authentic friendship, and t…
Published on 3 weeks, 6 days ago