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The Gift of Disability and the Hope for Healing – Prof. Paul Gondreau
Season 13
Prof. Paul Gondreau argues that disability, though a real physical wound of human nature, can also be a profound gift because it deepens participatio…
2 months, 1 week ago
Thomas Aquinas and the Philosophy of Punishment – Dr. Peter Koritansky
Season 13
Dr. Peter Koritansky argues that Thomas Aquinas grounds punishment in natural law and retributive justice, where punishment is justified not merely t…
2 months, 1 week ago
The Roots of the Church in the Old and New Testament – Prof. Nina Sophie Heereman
Season 13
Prof. Nina Sophie Heereman argues that the Church is not a human invention but a divinely founded reality rooted deeply in Scripture, where Israel’s …
2 months, 1 week ago
Becoming a Good Conversationalist: How Not to Bore, Boast, or Otherwise Blather . . . and More! – Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Gregory Pine argues that good conversation is a real moral and spiritual practice: it matters, takes time, and should be used to draw near to oth…
2 months, 1 week ago
St. John Henry Newman’s Idea of the Saint – Dr. Rebekah Lamb
Season 13
Dr. Rebekah Lamb argues that St. John Henry Newman’s idea of the saint is deeply relational: saints are friends knit together in the communion of sai…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
I Want to Live a Good Life, Where Do I Start? – Dr. Wes Siscoe
Season 13
Dr. Wes Siscoe argues that true happiness and the good life are not found in pleasure, wealth, fame, or even bodily health, but in a fully ordered hu…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Is Abortion Morally Acceptable to Save the Life of the Mother? – Prof. Steven Jensen
Season 13
Prof. Steven Jensen presents several arguments in favor of the conclusion that the life of a fetus has intrinsic human dignity on account of what a h…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Savonarola Option: Why We Should Elect Christ as King – Dr. John-Paul Heil
Season 13
Dr. John-Paul Heil argues that Christians should “elect Christ as king” by judging political institutions according to whether they actually lead peo…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Lost Art of Dying – Dr. Lydia Dugdale
Season 13
Dr. Lydia Dugdale argues that the “lost art of dying” can be recovered by reviving older practices of mortality awareness, community, reconciliation,…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Anscombe vs. Miscamble on Truman: Catholic Disagreement over Honoring a President – Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Aquinas Guilbeau presents the Catholic disagreement over honoring Truman as a serious moral dispute rooted in differing judgments about just war,…
2 months, 3 weeks ago