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The Well-Read Catholic
by The Well-Read Catholic
From Plato and Vergil to Dante and the Bible, last week’s hot release to the Great Books of antiquity. This is the Well-Read Catholic.
Episodes
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12. Boethius, Sculpture, Time & Imagination w/ Jacob Terneus
Jacob Terneus, PhD student in ancient and medieval philosophy at Marquette University, talks with Patrick about his recent article in the Imaginative Conservative: Motion, Moments, & Sculptural Art: The Time and Imagination. He references to sculptural works in his essay and in our discussion:...
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11. St. Thomas More's Dialogue of Comfort with Dr. Michael West
Dr. Michael West, affiliate assistant professor of English and Director of Studies in Catholic Faith & Culture at the University of Dallas, joins the show to discuss the distance learning program he directs. Recently, Studies in Catholic Faith & Culture began releasing some of its courses and…
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10. Ausonius' Mask of Seven Sages with Dr. Lionel Yaceczko
Patrick discusses the Roman poet Ausonius (4th cent. A.D.) with Dr. Lionel Yaceczko, teach of Latin and Greek at the Heights School in Potomac, MD. For those looking to read this brief poem, the Loeb edition is out of copyright and can be found here. It begins on p.310.
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9. Bo Bonner on Don Quixote and Josef Pieper
Patrick speaks with Bo Bonner about a multitude of books and how they speak to life with the suspension of public Masses around Holy Week. Bo is executive vice president of the Newman Idea and director of mission and ministry at Mercy College in Iowa. He also co-hosts a weekly broadcast on Iowa...
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8. Are Tolkien and C.S. Lewis Enough? A Conversation with Gerald Russello
Patrick interviews Gerald Russello, editor of The University Bookman, about his recent article in the Intercollegiate Review: It's Time for Conservatives to Stop Being Content with J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Show Links: Bradley Birzer's Beyond Tenebrae: Christian Humanism in the Twilight of…
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7. Wordsworth, Howe, Steinbeck, & Actors Reading Outloud
Patrick is joined by Katy Lemieux, the brains behind Actors Reading Outloud. We share a couple poems: Wordsworth's My Heart Leaps and Marie Howe's What the Living Do. We discuss the nascent idea for Actors Reading Outloud from her joint work with her husband on staging Auden's For the Time Being....
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6. Hopkins, Jonson, & How Not to Memorize Poetry
Annie and Patrick reconnect after our February hiatus. Annie recites Fr. Hopkins' God's Grandeur. Patrick recounts reciting it in a thunderstorm atop Mt. Quandary in CO. Patrick recites Ben Jonson's To Celia, a favorite of the IHP. And Annie recalls the perils of what we try to memorize late in…
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5. Housman, Wordsworth, Beethoven, & The Brothers Grimm
A conversation with David Arth where we recite some poetry and discuss the finer things. For those interested... The text of A.E. Housman's "Terence, this is stupid stuff" can be found here. The Auden poem on A.E. Housman is still under copyright but some sleuthing will soon deliver it to you.…
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4. Michael Boler's Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek
An interview with Dr. Michael Boler, associate professor of Classics and director of the Honors Program at the University of St. Thomas, on his new book: Introduction to Classical and New Testament Greek: A Unified Approach.
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3. John Keats and the Iliad
Patrick and Annie sit down to talk about what they're reading, reflect on John Keats' "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer", and talk about Book 24 of the Iliad and friendship. Along the way, we discuss the proper order in which to read the Chronicles of Narnia, Rossetti's art inspired by…
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2. Charlotte Ostermann on Writing
Patrick Callahan sits down with author Charlotte Ostermann for a reflection on the state of Catholic writing today and some insights from her own experience as an author. While we discuss some of her earlier works, especially Souls at Rest, her most recent book, Upschooling, has been receiving...
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1. John Donne and the Great Books
Hosts Annie Gardner and Patrick Callahan catch up on what they've been reading (Patrick Rothfuss's The Wise Man's Fear and Mary Wilkins Freeman's The Revolt of "Mother" respectively), discuss John Donne's Holy Sonnet X, and the reasons why we read Great Books. Inter alia, we apply C.S. Lewis'...
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From Plato and Vergil to Dante and the Bible, last week’s hot release to the Great Books of antiquity. This is the Well-Read Catholic.
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