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Flannery on Art and Truth – Prof. Jennifer Frey
Season 13
Prof. Jennifer Frey explores Flannery O’Connor’s bold claim that art can reveal truth in a way philosophy cannot, and shows how her fiction turns bea…
1 month, 3 weeks ago
The Family, the Polity, and the Church – Fr. Brad Elliott, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Brad Elliott argues that human beings are naturally social and are meant to flourish through the distinct but related societies of family, polity…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Flannery O'Connor: Hillbilly Thomist or Hillbilly Nihilist? – Prof. Jennifer Frey
Season 13
Prof. Jennifer Frey asks whether Flannery O’Connor is really a “hillbilly Thomist” or a “hillbilly nihilist,” and uses her life and fiction to show h…
1 month, 4 weeks ago
Is There a Right to Steal? – Prof. Michael Krom
Season 13
Prof. Michael Krom uses Aquinas to argue that while stealing is always morally wrong, urgent need can change what counts as rightful use of superabun…
2 months ago
The Mystical Body of Christ: What Does Jesus Have to Do with Me? – Dr. Edmund Lazzari
Season 13
Dr. Edmund Lazzari explains how Christ’s divinity and humanity make the sacraments, grace, confession, purgatory, and the communion of saints all par…
2 months ago
The Creator of Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence: Natural Law, Inalienable Rights, and a Just Political Order – Prof. Christopher Kaczor
This lecture was given on April 9th, 2026, at Indiana University.
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2 months ago
Rights, Liberties, and the Nature of Medicine – Prof. Christopher Tollefsen
Season 13
Prof. Christopher Tollefsen argues that medicine is fundamentally ordered to health, not preference satisfaction, and he shows why that matters for a…
2 months ago
Aquinas' Philosophy of the Angels – Prof. Gregory Doolan
Season 13
Prof. Gregory Doolan explains how Aquinas uses philosophy to show that angels are real immaterial beings—pure forms with intellect and will—whose pla…
2 months ago
Private Property and the Universal Destination of Goods: How a Right to Private Possessions Serves the Common Good – Fr. Brad Elliott, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Brad Elliott, O.P. explores how the Catholic tradition understands ownership as a moral relation that binds persons together rather than isolatin…
2 months, 1 week ago
Thomistic Sacramental Theology – Fr. Thomas Joseph White
This lecture was given on February 6th, 2026, at Dominican House of Studies.
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2 months, 1 week ago