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Creation as Relation: An Existential Consideration – Dr. Robert McNamara
Season 13
Dr. Robert McNamara explores how creation is not a distant event but our very act of existing here and now, so that each person’s being is itself a c…
2 months, 3 weeks ago
Do We Make Morality, or Discover It? An Examination of the Basis of Natural Law – Dr. Erik Dempsey
Season 13
Dr. Erik Dempsey explores whether we make morality or discover it by unpacking Aquinas’s three natural inclinations and arguing that they ground obje…
2 months, 4 weeks ago
Seeking Friendship in the Virtual Age – Prof. John Cuddeback
Season 12
Prof. John Cuddeback reflects on why many students feel relationally unsatisfied in a hyper-connected world and shows how reclaiming embodied presenc…
3 months ago
Let the Best One Win: Reflections of Friendship and Competition – Prof. Michael Krom
Season 12
Prof. Michael Krom explores how athletic rivalry, when rooted in justice and love of the good, can deepen genuine friendship, build virtue, and lead …
3 months ago
Friendship and the Digital Age: A Thomistic Reflection on Human Connection – Prof. Joshua Hochschild
Season 12
Prof. Joshua Hochschild argues that digital culture reshapes friendship and attention through Curiositas and acedia, offering a path of renewal by cu…
3 months ago
Why Get Married? The Catholic View of the Meaning and Purpose of Marriage – Prof. Michael Dauphinais
Season 12
Prof. Michael Dauphinais explains marriage as a lifelong covenant of self-giving love between a man and a woman that images Christ’s union with the C…
3 months ago
Why Did God Become Man? The Absolute Primacy of Christ According to Blessed Duns Scotus – Prof. Thomas Ward
Season 12
Prof. Thomas Ward explains Scotus’s bold claim that the Incarnation is not primarily a response to human sin, but the centerpiece of God’s eternal pl…
3 months ago
Participation in the Divine Nature: Aquinas and the Catholic Vision of Theosis – Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.
Season 12
Fr. Gregory Pine explains that, according to Aquinas, Christians are called to true divinization or theosis: by grace and the sacraments they really …
3 months, 1 week ago
What Difference Did Christianity Make? Why the Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Irish Converted – Fr. Terence Crotty, O.P.
Season 12
Fr. Terence Crotty argues that Christianity spread so rapidly because it uniquely answered the human search for truth and happiness while transformin…
3 months, 1 week ago
The Disappearing Man: Body, Soul, and the Question of Who We Are – Dr. Paul LaPenna
Season 12
Dr. Paul LaPenna uses the dramatic case of a man in a coma from autoimmune brain disease to show that personal identity endures despite severe loss o…
3 months, 1 week ago