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Thomas More Centre Podcast
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The Thomas More Centre is a Catholic channel which promotes open-minded and stimulating conversation about subjects that concern the human condition and the common good.
Episodes
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Dr Andrew Quinlan - Training Priests in Ukraine, Soviet Thinking, Confusion in the Roman Rite
Dr Andrew Quinlan is an Australian liturgist who has been training seminarians in Ukraine for the past 13 years. He discusses the challenges faced by the Church in Ukraine, the communist-built intellectual prisons which persist in post-communist countries, sacramental confusion in the Latin...
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Professor Barry Spurr - On Poetry, Liturgy, and the Ordinariate
You can find a review of Barry's book at https://newsweekly.com.au/newsweekly/book-review-language-in-the-liturgy-past-present-future/
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Dr Philippa Martyr - What's to be done about the Catholic Church in Australia?
Dr Philippa Martyr is an historian, university lecturer and academic researcher. Her new book is "Witness: The Future Catholic Church in Australia" and she joins Mark to discuss issues such as vocational discernment and the single life, selling off the Catholic Education system, closing down or...
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Anna Krohn - Family, Feminism, and the Thomas More Centre
Anna Krohn OAM is the Executive Director of the Thomas More Centre. Anna discusses her upbringing in a political and culturally engaged working class family, what differentiates her pro-woman mentality from feminism, and the work of the Thomas More Centre.
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John Johnson - The Albertus Magnus Institute, Liberal Education, and John's Gospel and Revelation
John Johnson is the cofounder and volunteer Executive Director of the Albertus Magnus Institute (a free online platform offering a truly liberal education) and host of the Magnus podcast. He is also the CEO of Patmos Hosting. He joins Mark to AMI, the benefits of liberal education, and his…
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Dale Ahlquist - G.K. Chesterton on Shakespeare, Families & Children, Localism, Paradox, and Education
Dale Ahlquist, is the President of the American Chesterton Society and co-founder of the Chesterton Academy in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He joins Mark to discuss Chesterton's interest in Shakespeare (and his Catholicism, in particular), the relationship of the family to the state, localism…
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Monica Doumit - De-Christianization, Turning the Cultural Tide, and St Margaret Clitherow
Monica Doumit, the Director of Public Affairs and Engagement at the Catholic Archdiocese of Sydney and a regular contributor The Catholic Weekly. She joins Mark to discuss de-Christianization, fighting on in the culture war, and her favourite saint (perhaps after St Thomas More!), St Margaret...
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Professor Tracey Rowland - The Sisters of Mercy, JPII Institute, and the State of Catholic Education
Professor Tracey Rowland is the St John Paul II Chair of Theology at the University of Notre Dame Australia, recipient of the 2020 Ratzinger Prize, and was the original Queensland organiser for the Thomas More Centre. Dr Rowland discusses her education under the Sisters of Mercy in Ipswich and...
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Dr Alan Harrelson - Donald J. Trump Election Edition
Alan Harrelson, an historian and pipe enthusiast, returns to the podcast to discuss the 2024 US Presidential election. He and Mark discuss the rural-urban divide, the history of the Democratic Party, and the prospect of Robert F. Kennedy Jr taking on Big Ag,
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Kevin Bailey - SAS Veteran, Former Consul General for Timor Leste, and Catholic Philanthropist
Kevin Bailey is a former Special Air Service (SAS) soldier and honorary Consul-General to Timor Leste who now dedicates himself to Catholic philanthropy. He joins Mark to discuss his how his career in finance - for which he became well-known in Australian media - progressed into a mission to…
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Luke McCormack - For a Fairer, Family-Friendly, Australia
Luke McCormack is the National President of the National Civic Council (NCC), a grassroots organisation guided in its actions by five principles: upholding the belief that the family, not the individual, is the fundamental unit of society; making decisions in the national interest; privileging...
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Monsignor Michael Nazir-Ali - Christianity in Pakistan, True and False Ecumenism, Islam
Monsignor Michael Nazir-Ali was ordained a Catholic priest in 2021, having once been on the shortlist for appointment as the Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury. Born in Pakistan, Nazir-Ali embraced Christianity in his teenage years and rose to become bishop of Raiwind and then, Rochester. He joins...
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Dr Larry Chapp - A Traditional Radical
Dr. Larry Chapp is a retired professor of theology. He taught for twenty years at DeSales University near Allentown, Pennsylvania. In 2013 he and his wife opened the Dorothy Day Catholic Worker Farm in Harveys Lake, Pennsylvania. Dr. Chapp received his doctorate from Fordham University in 1994…
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Alex Dee - From Death of a Dream to 'Saints Alive'
Alex Dee, the creator of the children's radio drama 'Saints Alive,' speaks to Mark about his dream of being a Hollywood actor, the origins of the podcast, and what goes into making an episode of 'Saints Alive'
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The Thomas More Centre is a Catholic channel which promotes open-minded and stimulating conversation about subjects that concern the human condition and the common good.
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