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Money, Pleasure, Influence and the Key to a Happy Life – Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Gregory Pine shows how money, pleasure, and influence all fail as ultimate goals and argues that true happiness comes from living in accord with …
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Do We Really Have a Bill of Rights? – Prof. Jerome Foss
This lecture was given on November 4th, 2025, at Washington & Lee University.
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1 month, 2 weeks ago
John Henry Newman's Critique of Liberalism: Lessons from the Aristotelian Tradition – Prof. Joshua Hochschild
Season 13
This lecture was given on October 9th, 2025, at University of Michigan.
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1 month, 2 weeks ago
The Types of Miracles and the Possibilty of Demonic Miracles – Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Anselm Ramelow explains how, in a Thomistic framework, miracles are graded by how they surpass nature and why only God can perform the highest-le…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
Fire on the Altar: A Lecture on St. Augustine – Prof. Chad Pecknold
Season 13
Prof. Chad Pecknold shows how St. Augustine’s Confessions should be read as a Catholic, sacramental account of conversion in which the “altar of the …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Dominican Mystics of the Rhineland – Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy introduces the medieval Dominican mystics of the Rhineland and, in dialogue with Aquinas and Pseudo-Dionysius, shows how their o…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Catholic Women in the Arts & Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition – Dr. Bronwen McShea
Season 13
Dr. Bronwen McShea uncovers the rich but often forgotten history of Catholic women in the arts and sciences, showing how figures from late antiquity …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Natural Law Ethics of Killing – Prof. Christopher Tollefsen
Season 13
Prof. Christopher Tollefsen argues from a Thomistic natural law perspective that it is always morally wrong to intend the death of an innocent human …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Catholic Ethics in the Modern World – Prof. Marshall Bierson
This lecture was given on January 23rd, 2026, at Washington & Lee University.
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1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Scopes Trial & the Myth of Warfare between Science & Religion – Prof. Kenneth Kemp
Season 13
Prof. Kenneth Kemp reexamines the Scopes “Monkey Trial” to show that it has been mythologized into evidence of a supposed war between science and rel…
1 month, 4 weeks ago