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The Catholic Culture Podcast
In-depth discussions of all things Catholic - theology, art, history and more - featuring Thomas Mirus with a variety of notable guests. A production of CatholicCulture.org.
Episodes
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124 - Culture Warrior, Culture Nurturer - Maggie Gallagher
For two decades, Maggie Gallagher was a leading voice writing about the importance of permanent, monogamous marriage to society. At first, that included…
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123 - The Nature of Middle-earth - Carl Hostetter
Carl Hostetter, editor of a new volume of J.R.R. Tolkien's unpublished notes, The Nature of Middle-earth, joins the show. Carl discusses: His collaboration…
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122 - Minor Indignities - T.C. Merrill
T.C. Merrill's debut novel, Minor Indignities, is an evocative portrayal of the vanity of undergraduate life at an Ivy League university. Its protagonist, a…
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The Glorious English Carol
Originally published as episode 59 on December 21, 2019, this popular episode is being rerun in a slightly improved version. This is a love letter to the great…
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121 - Catholic Jazz Legend Mary Lou Williams - Deanna Witkowski
Mary Lou Williams: one of the outstanding jazz pianists of all time, composer, Catholic convert, visionary, performer of works of mercy. Because Williams's…
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Highlights: Authority in marriage, anti-libertarianism, the scapular and more
This episode contains clips of highlights from episodes 45 and 47-49 of the Catholic Culture Podcast. Episode 45—Libertarianism vs. Natural Law on Private…
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120 - Maximilian Kolbe in Japan - Kevin Doak
Unlikely as it may sound, Catholic fiction has a certain amount of mainstream appeal in Japanese literature. Sono Ayako, one of Japan's most famous novelists…
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119 - Gilson on the One Secular World Order - Peter Redpath
Etienne Gilson's Metamorphoses of the City of God traces the quest of philosophers for a universal human society, as it gradually degraded from the heavenly…
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118 - Music for the Joyful Mysteries - Mark Christopher Brandt
Mark Christopher Brandt returns to the show to discuss his latest album, Joy, which is based on the structure of the Rosary. It features the family choir of…
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117 - Maritain's Art and Scholasticism, Pt. 2
This is a crossover episode in which Thomas joins forces with Scott Hambrick and Karl Schudt from the Online Great Books Podcast, to discuss the classic essay…
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116 - Maritain's Art and Scholasticism, Pt. 1
This is a crossover episode in which Thomas joins forces with Scott Hambrick and Karl Schudt from the Online Great Books Podcast, to discuss the classic essay…
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115 - A Bishop's Stand on Gender Ideology - Fr. Stephen Schultz
Bishop Michael Burbidge of Arlington, Virginia, recently issued "A Catechesis on the Human Person and Gender Ideology". The document takes a strong unequivocal…
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114 - A Children's Book About Accepting Your Nature - Matthew Mehan
Writer Matthew Mehan returns to the show to discuss his new children's book co-authored with painter John Folley, The Handsome Little Cygnet. This lovely tale…
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Is realism in modern fiction an aberration? w/ Joshua Hren
In this outtake from episode 113, Thomas asks writer and editor Joshua Hren whether the turn to realism in modern fiction, a historical anomaly, is also a…
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113 - Can a Novelist "Create" a Saint? - Joshua Hren
In his new book How to Read (and Write) Like a Catholic, fiction writer and editor Joshua Hren lays out an approach to Catholic literature that spans all the…
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Apology and Retractions about the Vaccine Episode
Thomas Mirus apologizes for and retracts some things he said in Episode 106 of the Catholic Culture Podcast, a discussion of the morality of COVID vaccines.
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112 - Walker Percy's Angelic-Bestial Future - Jessica Hooten Wilson
"Now in these dread latter days of the old violent beloved U.S.A. and of the Christ-forgetting Christ-haunted death-dealing Western world I came to myself in a…
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111 - Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - Anthony Esolen
Today we discuss one of the greatest Arthurian tales, told by one of the most virtuosic poets in the history of English, an anonymous priest of the 14th…
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Highlights: Garrigou-Lagrange, Dana Gioia, Tolkien's metaphysics, and more
This episode contains clips of highlights from episodes 38-41 and 44 of the Catholic Culture Podcast. 38 - Garrigou-Lagrange, The Sacred Monster of Thomism -…
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BONUS: Interview with Lourdes documentary writer Sixtine Leon-Dufour
In this interview originally from Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast, Thomas Mirus and James Majewski interview Sixtine Leon-Dufour, writer of the new Lourdes…
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110 - Woke Idols, Woke Pathologies - Noelle Mering
Noelle Mering joins the show to discuss her new book Awake, Not Woke: A Christian Response to the Cult of Progressive Ideology. Topics discussed include: The…
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109 - A Catholic in the NYC Ballet - Claire Kretzschmar
Claire Kretzschmar, a dancer and soloist with the New York City Ballet, joins the show to discuss her path to becoming a professional dancer, the challenges…
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108 - Walker Percy's Moviegoer w/ Nathan Douglas
Thomas is joined by Catholic filmmaker Nathan Douglas to discuss Walker Percy's first novel, The Moviegoer. They examine the malaise-ridden protagonist Binx…
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Highlights: How men can help the angry feminist in their lives, and more
This episode features clips from episodes 34-37 of the Catholic Culture Podcast, including some personal stories from Thomas. Links The Memoirs of St. Peter w/…
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107 - Prayer as a Political Problem w/ Brandon McGinley
This is a discussion of an interesting little book from 1967 that has re-entered the discourse, Prayer as a Political Problem by Jean Danielou, SJ, recently…
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106 - Abortion-Linked Vaccines: A Moral Analysis - Michael Pakaluk, Jay Richards
Michael Pakaluk and Jay Richards join host Thomas V. Mirus for a discussion of the moral issues involved with the production and testing of vaccines using…
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105 - Confronting an Unprecedented Church Scandal - Phil Lawler
Catholic Culture's own Phil Lawler has written a new book addressing what he sees as flaws in the response of Catholic leaders and laity to the pandemic and…
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104 - John's Gospel, Mary's Voice - Michael Pakaluk
Michael Pakaluk joins the show to discuss his new translation and commentary on St. John's gospel, making the case that this loftiest of gospels echoes the…
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Highlights: Feminism and ideology; intuition, temperance and art; Great Books; Tolkien's visual art
This episode features highlight clips from episodes 26-30 of the Catholic Culture Podcast. Links Online Great Books opens a new enrollment period approximately…
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103 - Pope Leo XIII's NYC Hotel
Did you know there's a hotel in NYC named after Pope Leo XIII? The Leo House was founded in the 1880s as a boarding house for German Catholic immigrants, at…
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102 - Becoming Cultured Without a Bow Tie - James Matthew Wilson
Poet-philosopher James Matthew Wilson returns to the show to read poems from his new collection, The Strangeness of the Good, including his "Quarantine…
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101 - The Non-Reactionary Tolkien - Holly Ordway
J.R.R. Tolkien is commonly perceived as a reactionary who totally rejected the modern world, and whose literary influences began and ended with the Middle…
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100 - The Singular - Samuel Hazo
We celebrate our 100th episode with the return of a favorite Catholic Culture Podcast guest, former Pennsylvania Poet Laureate Samuel Hazo. At 92, Sam is still…
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Episode 0 - The Nightingale - Mark Christopher Brandt
To celebrate the approach of Episode 100 of the Catholic Culture Podcast, here is the interview that started it all. Originally published on August 4, 2017…
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99 - Ashes and Elitists - Gail Finke
This Ash Wednesday, following a note from the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Sacraments, many American parishes did not distribute ashes in the…
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98 - An Anglo-Saxon Bard - Benjamin Bagby
Famous for his chanted performances of Beowulf in the original Old English, Benjamin Bagby is the closest thing you'll find today to an Anglo-Saxon bard. Bagby…
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97 - The Hierarchy of Being in Natural Science - Daniel Toma
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BatWN05pP1I Catholic geneticist Daniel Toma is the author of Vestige of Eden, Image of Eternity: Common Experience, the…
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96 - Hillbilly Thomists - Joseph Hagan, O.P.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4Uv7MvEHixg The Hillbilly Thomists, a bluegrass group entirely composed of Dominican friars, have just released their second…
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95 - Fighting Pervasive Religious Indifferentism - Ralph Martin
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zkfJ-gSMdUg Today's Catholic culture is marked by a profound and settled religious indifferentism. Among many Catholics, to…
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94 - Understanding Postmodern "Social Justice" - Darel Paul
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3Czyd0XSEso The alarmists were right: ideas that were only a few years ago complacently dismissed as the perennial agitation…
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93 - An Introduction to Thomas Tallis - Kerry McCarthy
All music by Thomas Tallis used with permission of the artists and labels listed below. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/i-oMO9qqzKA As a Gentleman of the…
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92 - Claudel's Cosmic Vision - Jonathan Geltner
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z5jrU3JYnv0 In his Five Great Odes, the great French Catholic poet Paul Claudel (1868-1955) offers a cosmic vision in which…
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91 - The Temptation of St. Anthony - Elizabeth Lev
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/H1_78eLjaB8 The trials of St. Anthony the Great (251-356 AD), as described in St. Athanasius's Life and the…
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90 - Leo XIII on the State's Duties Toward the Church - Thomas Pink
Vatican II's Declaration on Religious Freedom, Humanis Dignitatae, begins by noting that its discussion of religious liberty "has to do with immunity from…
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89 - Mary and the Blues – Mike Aquilina
In addition to being the host of Catholic Culture's Way of the Fathers podcast and the author of dozens of books on the early Church, Mike Aquilina is a poet…
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88 - On Columbus - Robert Royal
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8zPXC9KscGs The debate over Christopher Columbus's legacy tends to go back and forth from cartoonish demonization to…
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87 - The Jester Is Not The King - Jeremy McLellan
Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ve9oqQpCrI Jeremy McLellan is a Catholic stand-up comedian who, strangely, is huge is Pakistan. He joins the…
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86 - Karl Marx, "Monster of Ten Thousand Devils" - Paul Kengor
The Catholic Culture Podcast is now in video! Subscribe to our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBwqvyZyc2bpzI-kOYhwrkw While the Catholic…
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85 - Three-Fifths of Our Band Got Ordained - Luxury
There are many strange stories in rock history. But Luxury is surely the only band in which three out of five members ended up becoming Orthodox priests…
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84 - Disobey Lockdown Now - Douglas Farrow, Andrew Busch
Catholic theologian Douglas Farrow and Lutheran political scholar Andrew Busch join the show to discuss their recent essays on the coronavirus lockdown, and…
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Ep. 83 - The American Founding's Medieval Roots - Robert Reilly
While the left continues crudely to paint America's founding as a mere expression of white supremacy, certain thinkers on the right have been making their own…
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Highlights from the Archive #3: The abuse crisis, acedia and more
This episode revisits some great moments from past Catholic Culture Podcast episodes: 18 - Acedia, the Forgotten Capital Sin - R.J. Snell…
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Does A Man for All Seasons portray St. Thomas More accurately?
In this episode originally from Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast, Thomas asks attorney and scholar Louis Karlin whether Robert Bolt's play and film A Man…
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Taylor Marshall's Errors on Vatican II: Chris Plance and Richard DeClue Respond
Something a little different: this is the audio from a video on the DeClue's Views YouTube channel, which I am republishing here because I want to give these…
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Ep. 82—A Habitual Counterculture—Brandon McGinley
The Catholic Church in America has largely lost its distinctive flavor and with it, its ability either to retain the faithful or to evangelize the infidel. The…
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Ep. 81 - Love Like a Conflagration - Jane Greer
From 1981 to 1993, Jane Greer edited Plains Poetry Journal, publishing poets who were reviving the traditional tools of "rhyme, meter, alliteration, assonance…
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Ep. 80 - Bring Out Your Dead - Scott Hahn
Modernity treats the human body pretty much as a machine for the production of pleasure. It is tuned up, fueled, and oiled for peak performance, and then when…
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Ep. 79—Three Marks of Manhood, Pt. 2: Scepter, Crosier, Cross—G.C. Dilsaver
This is the second half of an interview with G.C. Dilsaver on his book The Three Marks of Manhood: How to be Priest, Prophet and King of Your Family. Dr…
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Ep. 78 - Three Marks of Manhood, Pt. 1: Patriarchy Purified - G.C. Dilsaver
There is a great need for Catholics to acknowledge the timeless Biblical and Magisterial teachings about the headship of fathers over their families. Yet St…
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Ep. 77 - Gene Wolfe, Catholic Sci-FI Legend - Sandra Miesel, Fr. Brendon Laroche
After much popular demand, Thomas pays tribute to legendary Catholic sci-fi writer Gene Wolfe, who passed away last year. Though not known to the general…