The End of Liberalism and the Lost Man
by Mark BauerleinChilton Williamson joins the podcast to discuss his book The End of Liberalism. Continue Reading »
Thinking Doesn’t Stop at the Church Door
by John WilsonI don't think Baggini has earned the right to patronize religious believers, but it's particularly striking that he does so after telling readers to question their own questions, advice he fails to heed himself. Continue Reading »
Forgetting the Art of Memory
by Esmé PartridgeThat AI undermines the importance of our basic faculty of memory ought to concern us. It will only increase the ignorance of our fallen state. Continue Reading »
Synodality and Sanctity
by George WeigelIf October’s Synod on Synodality is going to contribute to the evangelization of a world sorely in need of holiness, then the Synod is going to have to take the saints far more seriously than its Working Document does. Continue Reading »
The Future of Classical Civic Architecture
by Mark BauerleinJustin Shubow joins the podcast to discuss his time as Chairman of the United States Commission of Fine Arts, as well as the future of classical design in federal architecture. Continue Reading »
Keeping the “C” in the YMCA
by John MurdockFor those who do the backstroke or shoot hoops at a functionally agnostic YMCA “swim and gym,” the Christ-centered history of the institution may be surprising. Some believers seek to make it better known. Continue Reading »
The Greatest Catholic Opera
by Algis ValiunasOpera has traditionally had little interest in Christian orthodoxy. So when composer Francis Poulenc wrote his masterpiece, Dialogues des Carmélites, the work’s celebration of heroic piety defied the secular spirit of the art form. Continue Reading »
Pinocchio, Princesses, and the Moral Imagination
by Mark BauerleinVigen Guroian joins the podcast to discuss his book Tending the Heart of Virtue: How Classic Stories Awaken a Child's Moral Imagination.
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Moving in the Right Direction
by R. R. RenoIn these perilous times, we all feel ill at ease. But over the last two months, our unity as people of faith has manifested itself in an outpouring of support. Continue Reading »
The “Synodal Process”: Talking a New Church into Being?
by George WeigelCardinal Jean-Claude Hollerich, S.J., Synod-2023’s relator general, said that the Synod’s purpose was not changing Catholic teaching but “listening.” To which one must ask, “listening to what end”? Continue Reading »
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