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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.
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Ep. 76 - Playing Jesus on The Chosen - Jonathan Roumie
Catholic actor Jonathan Roumie plays Jesus in The Chosen, the first multi-season TV series about the life of our Lord. He joins the podcast to discuss his…
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Ep. 75 - Don't Scapegoat the Nouvelle Théologie - Richard DeClue
It has become fashionable in traditionalist circles to blame all problems in modern theology on the so-called nouvelle théologie, including a range of thinkers…
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Ep. 74 - What Is Classical Christian Education? - Andrew Kern
Modern education treats the child as a blank slate, a malleable object to be formed according to the will of whoever has power over educational policy…
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Ep. 73 - St. John Henry Newman's Aesthetics - Fr. Guy Nicholls, Cong. Orat.
St. John Henry Newman was involved in several art forms throughout his life. In literature, he was perhaps the greatest English prose writer of his time, and a…
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Podcast Highlights: Music and morals, Tolkien and more
A look back through the Catholic Culture Podcast archive. This episode contains highlights from: Ep. 11 - Music and Morals - Basil Cole, O.P…
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Ep. 72 - Stabat Mater - Francesco Cotticelli
Stabat Mater, a medieval hymn that was long used as the sequence for the Feast of the Seven Sorrows of the Blessed Virgin Mary, is now commonly sung between…
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Ep. 71 - Thick Skin, Weak Stomach - Timothy & David Gordon
Timothy and David Gordon join the show to discuss their new book Rules for Retrogrades: Forty Tactics to Defeat the Radical Left. It's a reverse-Alinskyan…
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Ep. 70 - The Flannery-Haunted World - Joshua Hren, John Emmet Clarke
This episode features two young Catholic publishers who are doing cutting-edge work to preserve and carry forward the Catholic literary legacy, building on the…
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Podcast Highlights: Native saints, Operation Rescue and more
A look back through the Catholic Culture Podcast archive. This episode contains highlights from: Ep. 1 - A Working Actor's Working Faith - Tony Mockus, Sr…
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Ep. 69 - Poetry of the English Martyrs - Benedict Whalen
In 1581, a young Englishman named Henry Walpole attended the execution of the Jesuit Edmund Campion. As Campion was hung, drawn and quartered, Walpole stood…
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Ep. 68 - What I Learned From Making Music With Mark Christopher Brandt
Thomas recently had the privilege of playing piano on the latest album by Catholic composer Mark Christopher Brandt. The Butterfly consists of a suite for…
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Ep. 67 - "Why I'm No Longer a Catholic Feminist" - Melody Lyons
After growing up immersed in feminism and a dissident parish that left her deeply unhappy, Melody Lyons found truth and healing in the fullness of Christ's…
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Ep. 66 - Christopher Tolkien, 1924-2020 - John Garth
This is a tribute to Christopher Tolkien, who passed away on Jan. 16, 2020. Without Christopher's decades of dedicated scholarship, most notably his editing…
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Ep. 65 - Reason With Stories, Philosophize With Your Life (Vision of the Soul Pt. III) - James Matthew Wilson
Modernity elevated pure, abstract reasoning as the only way to know about reality. Reason having disenchanted everything else, modernity then became…
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Ep. 64 - Advancing the Faith in the Podcast Medium - Mike Aquilina, James T. Majewski
It's Podcast Week here at CatholicCulture.org, as we want to make more people aware of our audio offerings, particularly the two new podcasts we launched last…
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Ep. 63 - Beauty Revealing Being (Vision of the Soul Pt. II) - James Matthew Wilson
It is in the nature of Being to reveal itself to us, and in the natural realm this is done preeminently through beauty. Aquinas mentions radiance, clarity and…
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Ep. 62—Overcoming Catholic Dating Hangups & Social Isolation
We've all heard the complaints about Catholic dating. Catholics have trouble with the concept of "casual dating" because they (rightly) see dating as oriented…
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Ep. 61 - Liberal Anti-Culture vs. the Western Vision of the Soul (Pt I) - James Matthew Wilson
The devastation rationalism has wrought on modernity has yet to be calculated, because it is the air we breathe, often regardless of our professed beliefs. To…
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Episode 60 - Princeton Hosts Event Dedicated To St. Cecilia
Princeton University recently hosted and funded a very Catholic event as part of its annual Being Human Festival. It was a several-hour program dedicated to…
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Episode 59 - The Glorious English Carol
This is a love letter to the great English Christmas carols, from "There Is No Rose" to "The Boar's Head". Did you know that not just any Christmas song is a…
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Episode 58 - A Hidden Life Film Review w/ James Majewski
Terrence Malick's stunning new film, A Hidden Life, is about Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who was martyred for refusing to swear loyalty to…
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Episode 57 - River of the Immaculate Conception - James Matthew Wilson
James Matthew Wilson's new cycle of poems, The River of the Immaculate Conception, is a reflection on the history of the Catholic faith in the Americas, from…
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Episode 56 - Vindicating Authority - Aquinas Guilbeau, O.P.
Modernity has attempted to do away with authority. It does this not most commonly by advocating anarchy. Rather, it justifies its own established powers in…
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Episode 55 - The Hundredfold - Anthony Esolen
Having honed his skills translating Dante, Tasso and Lucretius, well-known Catholic cultural commentator Anthony Esolen has now published his first book of…
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Episode 54 - Fostering Responsible Elites - Jonah Bennett
The Western liberal democratic order is in crisis. If it collapses or significantly wanes in power, what will replace it? A long period of chaos and massive…
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Episode 53 - God Made Us For Order and Surprise - John-Mark Miravalle
John-Mark Miravalle is the author of a rather good popular introduction to the topic beauty, Beauty: What It Is and Why It Matters. He and Thomas converse on…
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Episode 52—Off-Broadway Play Accurately Portrays Conservative Thought: Zoology or Spiritual Wisdom?
In the new off-Broadway play Heroes of the Fourth Turning, playwright Will Arbery (son of two Wyoming Catholic College professors) offers a nuanced, accurate…
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Episode 51 - Bringing Melody Back to Pop Music - The Duskwhales
Indie rock trio The Duskwhales formed almost 10 years ago at a small Catholic high school in Virginia. Over that decade, four albums and three EPs, they have…
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Episode 50—A Catholic Composer in Queen Elizabeth's Court, Pt. II—Kerry McCarthy
One of England's greatest composers, William Byrd is a fascinating and complicated figure of Catholic musical history. A musician in the Royal Chapel of Queen…
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Episode 49 - A Catholic Composer in Queen Elizabeth's Court, Pt. I - Kerry McCarthy
One of England's greatest composers, William Byrd is a fascinating and complicated figure of Catholic musical history. A musician in the Royal Chapel of Queen…
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Episode 48 - Authority and Submission as Gift in Christian Marriage - Mary Stanford
"Wives, be subject to your husbands, as to the Lord. For the husband is the head of the wife as Christ is the head of the church, his body, and is himself its…
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Episode 47 - Our Lady's Habit: Wearing and Loving the Brown Scapular - Fr. Justin Cinnante, O.Carm.
Many Catholics have worn the Brown Scapular at some point in their lives. Some of those people stopped wearing it for one reason or another. Others have…
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Episode 46 - Sing With Your Children - Roundabout
Emma and Cecilia Black grew up in a large family that sang together constantly. Now these two sisters from Grand Rapids, Michigan, have made an album of folk…
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Episode 45 - Libertarianism vs. Natural Law on Private Property
Thomas discusses his libertarian past, explains why he abandoned that political philosophy, and summarizes an article on the topic by the Catholic philosopher…
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Episode 44 - Catholics Need Poetry. But Do We Want It? - Dana Gioia
Dana Gioia is one of the greatest Catholic poets working today. In this interview he discusses how Catholic attitudes toward the arts have changed in recent…
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Episode 43 - Teaching Children Self-Knowledge Through the Liberal Arts - Matthew Mehan
Mr. Mehan's Mildly Amusing Mythical Mammals (M5) is a book of poems intended as an introduction to the liberal arts for children, helping them to grow in…
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Episode 42 - The Missionary of Wall Street - Stephen Auth
Stephen Auth is a highly successful investment manager on Wall Street. In his spare time, he hails down strangers on the streets of Manhattan and convinces…
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Episode 41 - The Neo-Colonial West Is Forcing Abortion on Africa - Obianuju Ekeocha
Western governments and NGOs are pushing the Sexual Revolution on Africa, using strings-attached development aid. Of all the funds from Western nations going…
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Episode 40 - Tolkien and Aquinas - Jonathan S. McIntosh
Tolkien is well known to have been concerned with the internal consistency of his fictional world, from geography to history to language. But he was also…
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Episode 39 - Composing Liturgical Music That's Noble, Accessible... and Sacred - Paul Jernberg
Paul Jernberg is a composer of sacred music and director of the Magnificat Institute, which offers education in the patrimony of Catholic liturgical music. He…
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Episode 38 - Garrigou-Lagrange, The Sacred Monster of Thomism - Matthew K. Minerd
The name of Garrigou-Lagrange has long been a byword for a fusty, rigid Thomism of days gone by, allegedly more concerned with centuries of accretions built up…
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Episode 37 - Sculpting Two Benedicts - Jago
The young Italian sculptor Jago is best known to Catholics for his marble bust of Pope Benedict XVI, which the Pope himself awarded with a pontifical medal…
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Episode 36 - Bridges to Hell or Heaven: "Toxic Femininity" and the Spirit of Anti-Mary - Carrie Gress
One of the core things that has gone wrong with our culture in the past several decades is the denigration of every virtue associated with the perfect woman…
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Episode 35 - Moral Blindness and Abortion - Abby Johnson
Abby Johnson was the youngest clinic director in Planned Parenthood history. After witnessing an abortion on ultrasound, she quit, became a Catholic, and…
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Episode 34 - The Memoirs of St. Peter - Michael Pakaluk
Michael Pakaluk has written a new translation and commentary of Mark's Gospel. Mark was relating very recent events, with details only an eyewitness (most…
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Episode 33 - Structure and Freedom in Music and in Christ - Mark Christopher Brandt
The quest for freedom in structure is fundamental to Catholic spiritual life (particularly during this season of Lent). It's also fundamental to musical…
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Episode 32 - Antoni Gaudí, Patron Saint of Architects? - Gabriela Gonzalez-Cremona
For many people who have never been to Spain, their only image of the country may be the strange spires of Barcelona's La Sagrada Familia, designed by Antoni…
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Episode 31 - Some Jazz You Should Hear
You may or may not know that I have a background in jazz piano (I wrote and performed the intro and outro music for this show, for example). In this album I…
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Episode 30--What Tolkien's Visual Art Tells Us About His Creative Mind--John McQuillen and Holly Ordway
While Tolkien's brilliance as a world-builder and storyteller is well-established, fewer people are aware of just how unique (and obsessive) his creative…
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Episode 29 - Catholic Feminism: Should We? - Abigail Rine Favale
Today there is more pressure than ever before on both women and men to embrace feminism. In her outstanding memoir, Into the Deep, Abigail Rine Favale gives a…
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Episode 28: An Introduction to Maritain's Poetic Philosophy--Samuel Hazo
This episode is not to be missed! There is an ongoing and much-needed revival of Jacques Maritain's philosophy of art. Accomplished poet Samuel Hazo makes a…
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Episode 27: Always Wanted to Study the Great Books? Here's How You'll Actually Follow Through--Scott Hambrick
Many people want to study the great books of the western world in a group setting, but are unable to study at a Great Books college like St. John's, and it's…
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Episode 26: The Arts, Contemplation and Virtue--Basil Cole, O.P.
Fr. Basil Cole returns to discuss what he has been teaching the student brothers at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C., in a course on the…
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Episode 25: Phil Lawler, Jeff Mirus and Thomas Mirus on Our Favorite Books of 2018
Phil Lawler, Jeff Mirus, and Thomas Mirus discuss selections from their article rounding up their favorite books and other media of 2018. Links Article: The…
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Episode 24: Talking A Capella with VOCES8's Barnaby Smith
VOCES8 is a critically acclaimed a capella octet from the UK, focusing on medieval and Renaissance works as well as their own arrangements of modern pop tunes…
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Episode 23: How the Laity Must Respond to the Abuse Crisis--Fr. Roger Landry
Fr. Roger Landry returns to the show to talk about what the laity can do to address the abuse crisis. Along the way we discuss the concerns that might make…
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Episode 22: Newman's Idea of a University--Paul Shrimpton
Bl. John Henry Newman was, among many other things, a lifelong teacher. Not only did he found the Catholic University of Ireland and England's first Catholic…
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Episode 21: Gosnell, the Abortion Story No One Wanted Told--Ann McElhinney
The new feature film Gosnell: The Trial of America's Biggest Serial Killer, about the investigation, trial and conviction of abortionist Kermit Gosnell, has…