Episodes
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The Josias Podcast Episode LIII: Magnifica humanitas
Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined by Ed, a software developer, to discuss the first encyclical of Pope Leo XIV, Magnifica humanitas. They speak about the Holy Father’s first foray into Catholic Social Teaching and whether or not it was a success. Bibliography: Leo XIV, Magnifica humanitas (15…
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The Josias Podcast Episode LII: Leo XIII on Freemasonry
Our hosts, Amanda and Fr. Jon Tveit, discuss Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical on Freemasonry, Humanum genus (1884), as well as its historical context and relevance for today. Bibliography: Leo XIII, Humanum genus (1884) Header Image: Constantino Brumidi, The Apotheosis of Washington (1865). If you have...
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The Josias Podcast Episode LI: Liberty! Part Deux
Our series on Leo XIII’s social encyclicals continues with Libertas praestantissimum. After some updates, our editor discusses Leo’s distinction between natural and moral liberty, and how this is manifested in his approach to the so-called ‘modern liberties.’ Bibliography Pope Leo XIII, Libertas...
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The Josias Podcast Episode L: Aeterni Patris
Our hosts, Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda, are joined by Dr. Daniel Lendman, Assistant Professor of Catholic Theology at Ave Maria University, for a conversation about Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical on the restoration of Christian philosophy, Aeterni Patris (1879). Bibliography: Leo XIII, Aeterni Patris...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XLIX: Pope Leo XIII and his Writings
Our hosts, Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda, are joined by Gideon Lazar for a conversation about Pope Leo XIII, his pontificate, writings, and whether there will be a Leonine revival under our newly elected pontiff, Leo XIV. Bibliography: Longinqua Oceani (1895) The Josias Podcast, Episode VI: Ralliement...
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The Josias Podcast, Special Episode: Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue (Re-Release)
This week, we at The Josias were saddened by the death of Alasdair MacIntyre, whose contributions to moral and political philosophy cannot be overstated. He was profoundly influential in the intellectual lives of many of us here at The Josias. In his memory, we are re-releasing our September 2018...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XLVIII: Ordo Amoris
Our hosts, Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda, are joined by Pater Edmund and Fr. Joseph Hudson, OSB for a conversation about the role of the ordo amoris in Catholic intellectual tradition. Fr. Joseph Hudson, a Benedictine priest of Clear Creek Abbey, studied philosophy before entering the cloister in…
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The Josias Podcast Episode XLVII: Relics
Our hosts, Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda, are joined by Fr. Justin Cinnante, O.Carm., for a conversation about relics, their power and significance, and the full story of how Fr. Justin came to bless and present President Donald Trump with a relic of the True Cross. Fr. Justin is a Carmelite priest…
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The Josias Podcast Episode XLVI: Memento mori
In this month of November, dedicated to the holy souls in Purgatory, our hosts, Amanda and Fr. Jon Tveit, are joined by Fr. Michael Barone, for a conversation about death, the importance of the funeral rite, cremation, and how today’s culture seeks to keep distant our own mortality. Fr. Barone...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XLV: Catholic Land Movement
Our Editor, Fr. Jon Tveit, is joined on the podcast by Michael Thomas—the motivating force behind the new Catholic Land Movement—for a conversation about the Catholic Land Movement’s inspiration, purpose, and how puts that into practice. You may follow Michael Thomas on (the website formerly…
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The Josias Podcast Episode XLIV: St. Thomas More
For the feast of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined on the podcast by James Monti, author and historian, for a conversation on the life and example of St. Thomas More. Bibliography James Monti, The King’s Good Servant but God’s First : The Life and Writings of...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XLIII: St. John Henry Newman on the Blessed Virgin Mary
As May—the month of Our Lady—comes to a close, Matthew Walther, editor of The Lamp Magazine, joins Amanda and Fr. Jon Tveit for a conversation on St. John Henry Newman and Our Blessed Mother. Bibliography St. John Henry Newman, Mary: The Virgin Mary in the life and writings of John Henry Newman...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XLII: The Virtue of Religion
Urban Hannon returns to the podcast to join Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda for a conversation about the virtue of religion—what it is theologically, and what it demands practically of us and our society. Bibliography St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II Q.80-81 Fr. Franck Quoex, Liturgical...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XLI: Education
Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined by Deacon Harrison Garlick and Chris Ruckdeschel for a discussion on education, avoiding the pitfalls of the “Great Books,” and recovering the classical liberal arts. Bibliography Alcuin Institute for Catholic Culture Septem Artes Liberales Ascend – The Great...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XL: Laudate Deum
Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined by Gideon Lazar for a conversation on Pope Francis’ Laudate Deum and a Catholic approach to environmentalism. You may follow Gideon on (the website formerly known as) Twitter, @ByzCat. Bibliography Pope Francis, Laudate Deum Pope Francis, Laudato si’ USCCB,...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XXXIX: Urbanism
In his final episode (pre-recorded prior to entering seminary), Urban Hannon is joined by Nathaniel Gotcher and special guest Prof. Philip Bess, for a discussion about the theological and philosophical foundations of urbanism—and how we should think about urban form. Prof. Philip Bess is a...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XXXVIII: American Solidarity Party
Urban Hannon is joined by Lauren Onak for a conversation about the American Solidarity Party, third-party politics, and harmonizing political with spiritual. Lauren is the American Solidarity Party’s Vice Presidential candidate in the 2024 election. Bibliography Lauren Onak’s Acceptance Speech…
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The Josias Podcast Episode XXXVII: Barbenheimer
Urban Hannon is joined by Zac Mabry and Amanda for a conversation about the most memed and screened double feature of the year. Bibliography Helen Andrews, “Barbie: A Millennial Mom Movie” (The American Conservative). Nina Power, “Socialism or Barbie-ism” (Compact). If you have questions or...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XXXVI: Eduard Habsburg on Bl. Karl of Austria
Archduke Eduard of Austria, of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta, joins Urban Hannon for a conversation on Bl. Karl of Austria, his family, and his most recent book: The Habsburg Way. Eduard Habsburg’s book, The Habsburg Way: 7...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XXXV: Thomistic Mystagogy
Thomistic theology is rarely associated with liturgical prayer. So, in this episode, Urban Hannon turns the conversation toward St Thomas Aquinas’ mystagogy of the Mass—that is, his theological teaching on the meaning and purpose of its various rites. The handout mentioned in the episode may be...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXXIV: De Koninck on Nietzsche
Urban Hannon is joined by Ed and Pat Smith for a conversation about Charles De Koninck’s unpublished course notes on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Bibliography Charles De Koninck’s Course Notes on Nietzsche, which we have made available here. Header Image: Frans Francken the Younger,...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXXIII: Ego Sapientia
Urban Hannon is joined by Fr. Hugh Barbour, O.Praem., of St. Michael’s Abbey, and Fr. Jon Tveit for a conversation on Charles De Koninck’s work, Ego Sapientia: The Wisdom That Is Mary. Bibliography Charles De Koninck, “Ego Sapientia: The Wisdom That Is Mary” in The Writings of Charles De Koninck:...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXXII: Jesus Christ
In his inaugural episode as Editor, Urban Hannon is joined by Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. and Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. for a conversation about our Blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Bibliography St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Ia q. 3 a. 8; IIIa q. 19; IIIa q. 45; IIIa q. 48; IIIa q....
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXXI: Pope Benedict XVI
Urban Hannon, Matthew Walther, and the Rev. Jon Tveit join Pater Edmund to discuss the life, death, and writings of Pope Benedict XVI. Bibliography Jon Tveit, “The Liturgy and Society” The Josias. Jonathan Culbreath, “Her Sacred Enterprise: Liturgy and the Common Good” Peregrine Magazine”. Joseph...
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The Josias Podcast, Special Episode: The Politics of Hell
Urban Hannon’s “The Politics of Hell,” narrated by James T. Majewski of Catholic Culture Audiobooks. Header Image: Neil Packer. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon…
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXX: Queen Elizabeth II
Pater Edmund speaks with Pater Ælred Maria Anthony John Howard Davies, Subprior of Stift Heiligenkreuz, about the late Queen Elizabeth II. Music: Henry Purcell, Thou Knowest, Lord If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter....
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXIX: The Movies
Contributors to The Josias and Ius & Iusitium pick their favorite movies and discuss them. The result of the draft: To vote for a winner click here. Bibliography Tertullian, De Spectaculis (On the Shows) John Francis Nieto, A Study of Film. Music: Max Steiner, “Tara Theme” from Gone with the…
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The Josias Podcast, Special Episode: Lecture on Rights
Do rights exist, or are they moral fictions? What is the significance of the distinction between objective and subjective rights? In this lecture, Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. gives an account of rights and their relation to the common good. Bibliography and Links Hispanus, Petrus. “Notes on...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXVIII: Socialism (Part 2)
The debate on socialism continues, with Pater Edmund playing the socialist and Alan Fimister taking the anti-socialist side. Joel is joined by Chris to moderate the discussion. Bibliography and Links Leo XIII, Rerum novarum (1891) Pius XI, Quadragesimo anno (1931) Ernest Fortin, “Sacred and...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXVII: Socialism (Part 1)
Alan Fimister comes on the podcast to debate socialism with Pater Edmund. For the purposes of the debate, Pater Edmund takes the socialist side, arguing that the injustices of modern capitalism, which orders all things to the private interests of capitalists, requires the adoption of socialism to...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXVI: Historicism
Historicism seems to be a challenge to an integralist account of politics, because it denies that there is an unchanging truth about the human good accessible to our minds. In this episode the editors talk to Felix de St. Vincent and Brett Favras about Collingwood’s historicism, Leo Strauss’s...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXV: Questions & Answers
Our new technical editor, Chris, moderates a discussion with the editors of questions raised by our listeners. Nota bene: In the discussion of distributism at the 1:10 mark when Pater Edmund said “that’s what integralism is all about” he meant to say “thats what distributism is all about.” A slip...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXIV: Hobbes vs. Suárez on Coercion
Prof. Thomas Pink joins the editors to discuss Thomas Hobbes’s radical rejection of the scholastic understanding of law as a coercive teacher, and the anti-integralist motives behind that rejection. Bibliography Thomas Pink, “Suarez on Authority as Coercive Teacher,” Quaestio (2019). Petrus...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXIII: Liberty: the Highest of Natural Endowments
The editors discuss Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Libertas praestantissimum, on the true nature of liberty—both natural and moral—and on the errors of the liberals. Bibliography Pope Leo XIII, Libertas praestantissimum (1888). “Contrasting Concepts of Freedom,” The Josias (2016). Music: Gustav…
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXII: Love, Hope, and Integralism in the New Testament
The encyclicals Deus caritas est and Spe salvi raise two opposite objections against Christianity: Christian love seems too altruistic, opposed to one’s own happiness; while Christian hope seems too egoistic, opposed to proper concern for temporal society. The editors discuss these objections…
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XXI: We Live in a Society
We live in a society in which the few live in excess, while the many live in miserable and wretched conditions. We live in a society in which the poor are defenseless against the inhumanity of employers and the unbridled greed of competitors. We live in a society in which these evils are…
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XX: Eric Voegelin
Continuing a series of reflections on important 20th century critiques of modernity and liberalism that has included episodes on Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History, the editors are joined again by Gabriel Sanchez to discuss Eric Voegelin’s The New…
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XIX: Justice
Justice, according to St. Thomas, is the perpetual and constant will to render each one his right. Distributive justice, commutative justice, potential parts, quasi-integral parts, debt, cannibalism—in this episode, the editors cover it all. Bibliography Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IIa IIae...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XVIII: Revenge
The Josias Editors discuss punishment and the good of order in a teleological universe. Bibliography Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II Q. 60; II-II Q 64, A 2; II-II Q. 108. Plato, Gorgias. Music: “Bin ich nun frei Wirklich frei,” Das Rheingold, Richard Wagner. Vienna Philharmonic, George...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XVII: Empire
Does natural law demand a world government? Bibliography Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano, 1922. Henri Grenier, World Government is Required by Natural Law, The Josias, 2015. Rafael de Arízaga, Sovereignty and the Supreme Power, Pax in Bello, 2019. Music: Johannes Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn,...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XVI: The Resurrection of Christ and the Society of the Blessed
The editors are joined by special guest Daniel to discuss the Resurrection of Christ. Along the way they explore what it means for Christ to be New Adam, the necessity and fittingness of the Resurrection, and the meaning of the Resurrection both as the cause of the order of human society and the...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XV: Deconstructing Integralism
The editors return and deconstruct integralism by taking on the post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida, but in the end discover they were metaphysicians all along. Along the way, the discussion veers into Nietzsche, 19th century interpretations of Bach, internet meme culture, vaccinations and the...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XIV: The Virtue of Fortitude
A familiar voice returns after a long absence. Three voices discuss what it means to be brave, the cowardice of Dr. Proudie, the softness of clerics more generally, the brilliance of Monteverdi, and the exquisite comedy of Plato’s Laches. Bibliography Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae,...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XIII: Leo Strauss
«To reject natural right is tantamount to saying that all right is positive right, and this means that what is right is determined exclusively by the legislators and the courts of the various countries. Now it is obviously meaningful, and sometimes even necessary, to speak of “unjust” laws or...
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The Josias Podcast Episode XII: Prudence as Truth
In which, your hosts take aim at Frederick II (the other Frederick II), and discuss Prudence as truth and the distinction between false and true Prudence. Along the way they also touch on: Prudence as the Queen of the virtues; why Arnold Schoenberg (!) was a good artist; legalistic American...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode XI: After Virtue
In which your editors get brain worms, join a Bayou death cult, discover why they are “all like that,” achieve the goods internal to the practice of podcasting, and still find time to discuss Alasdair MacIntyre’s seminal work, After Virtue. Links The Josias Podcast, Episode VIII: Virtue Felix de...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode X: Liturgy and the Common Good
Honking geese, Byzantine chariot racing, and a rousing discussion of the deep and essential connection between the liturgy and the common good—in this episode, your hosts are joined by Jonathan Culbreath and Doctor Peter Kwasniewski. Along the way, they discuss the liturgy as focal point for the...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode IX: Before Church and State
How ought we to think of our common life as human beings created in the image of God? Do our modern habits of thought prevent us from understanding what was going on in the Middle Ages? And more importantly: can the Middle Ages help us to escape the errors embedded in our common life today and…
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The Josias Podcast, Episode VIII: Basic Concepts – Virtue
A freewheeling discussion in which our editors have a very TAC moment discussing the connection of the music of the spheres and the virtues, and then set out to discuss Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, but somehow talk more about Plato. Important topics are covered such as, how much virtue does it take...
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The Josias Podcast, Episode VII: Atonement and Salvation
That Christ died for our sins is at the heart of of the Christian faith: “For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures” (1 Cor 15:3). But what does it mean that He died for our sins? How did Christ’s death save and...
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