Podcast Episodes

26: What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem?

I answer that it must be said that gifts of grace are added to those of nature in such a way that they do not destroy the latter, but rather perfect …

9 years, 8 months ago

25: Does Hell exist? Is it eternal? With Fr. Chis Pietraszko

On the contrary, It is written (Matthew 25:46): "These," namely the wicked, "shall go into everlasting punishment."

Further, as reward is to merit, s…

9 years, 9 months ago

24: Are you cool if I get hammered drunk?

Objection 1. It would seem that the use of wine is altogether unlawful. For without wisdom, a man cannot be in the state of salvation: since it is wr…

9 years, 9 months ago

23: Is baptism necessary for salvation?

It is written (Ezekiel 36:25): "I will pour upon you clean water, and you shall be cleansed from all your filthiness."

I answer that, As the Apostle …

9 years, 9 months ago

22: Why can't women be priests?

Objection 1. It would seem that the female sex is no impediment to receiving Orders. For the office of prophet is greater than the office of priest, …

9 years, 9 months ago

21: What do you think of Islam?

[Muhammad] seduced the people by promises of carnal pleasure to which the concupiscence of the flesh goads us. His teaching also contained precepts t…

9 years, 9 months ago

20: What are the 8 attributes of God?

St Thomas Aquinas, in the first part of his Summa Theologica, after having enumerated five proofs for the existence of God, proceeds to outline and e…

9 years, 10 months ago

19.5 What did you do that made St. Bonaventure tear up his manuscript?

Image of St. Bonaventure tearing up his manuscript.

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9 years, 10 months ago

19: Give me an argument for the existence of God?

The first and more manifest way is the argument from motion. It is certain, and evident to our senses, that in the world some things are in motion. N…

9 years, 10 months ago

18: Understanding Thomas' metaphysical lingo

In today's show we discuss the following metaphysical terms:

Essence, existence, being (contingent, necessary, substantial), potency, act, motion, ca…

9 years, 10 months ago