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Pope Leo XIII and Communism – Fr. Brad Elliott, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Brad Elliott shows how Leo’s Rerum Novarum responds to Marx and Engels by grounding property rights in the father’s duty to provide, the family’s…
2 months, 1 week ago
Nagasaki Prays, Hiroshima Rages: God's Providence and Narratives of Suffering – Prof. James Nolan
Season 13
Prof. James Nolan argues that Nagasaki’s prayerful response to the atomic bomb can only be understood through the city’s long Christian history, espe…
2 months, 1 week ago
What is Catholic Social Teaching? – Fr. Brad Elliott, O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Brad Elliott argues that it is really a theological vision of the human person as a social being ordered to God through family, polity, and Churc…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Mercy and Justice in Political Life: Augustine, Seneca, and Nussbaum – Prof. Sarah Byers
Season 13
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The University and the Search for Wisdom in the Middle Ages – Dr. Brian FitzGerald
Season 13
Dr. Brian FitzGerald explores how the first universities emerged from cathedral schools and monastic learning, and why they were built not just to tr…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
The Good Citizen: Lessons from Tocqueville on Democratic Citizenship in the 21st Century – Prof. Raymond Hain
Season 13
Prof. Raymond Hain argues that Tocqueville’s insights show democratic citizenship depends on stable attachments, shared social life across class line…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
How John Paul II Used the Saints Against the Communists in Poland – Prof. James Felak
Season 13
Prof. James Felak shows how John Paul II used the saints in his pilgrimages to communist Poland to challenge atheistic rule, strengthen Catholic iden…
2 months, 2 weeks ago
Musical Dependence: What's Behind It and How We Can Move Beyond It – Sr. Anna Wray, O.P.
Sr. Anna Wray argues that many people are caught in a “musical dependence” that uses music to make ordinary life merely tolerable, a mere toleration …
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Silence, Contemplation, and Non-Being – Fr. Ephrem Reese O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Ephrem Reese argues that silence is not mere absence but a fertile, hidden potency through which contemplation, devotion, and the word of God can…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Boredom: The Threshold of Great Deeds – Fr. Ephrem Reese O.P.
Season 13
Fr. Ephrem Reese argues that boredom can be read both as a modern opening onto time and wonder and, more importantly, as a spiritual problem that mus…
2 months, 3 weeks ago