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Controversies in Church History — 135 episodes

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ReView: The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century

2

Charting the Crisis in the Church: an Interview with James Green

3

Charles de Gaulle and Vatican II

4

What We've Been Reading 2025 (ish)

5

Did Pius IX Create Pope Francis?

6

Interview: the Council of Nicaea with Ben Wyatt

7

Are Catholic Traditionalists "Jansenists"?

8

The Perennial Heresy: Montanism, c. 160-600 AD

9

Church Musings: Thoughts on a New Pope

10

That the Bones You Have Crushed May Rejoice: the Origins of the Cult of Relics

11

Guadalupe & the Flower World: an Interview with Joseph and Monique Gonzalez

12

Updates/Upcoming Episodes and Other Things

13

Cloud of Witnesses: The Origins of the Cult of the Saints

14

Church Musings: The Reformation as Elite Crisis

15

Christendom's Image Crisis: the Iconoclast Controversy, 724-843

16

Persecution, Schism and Genocide: the Trials of Armenian Catholics, c. 1700-1928 (Latinization X)

17

What We've Been Reading: 2024 Edition

18

The Papacy and the Orthodox: an Interview with Erick Ybarra

19

Upcoming Events: ICC Lecture & Interview with Erick Ybarra

20

Chateaubriand and the Genius of Catholicism

21

Latinization IX: The Papacy and the Eastern Churches, 1846-1958

22

The Church WEIRD: How the Medieval Church Invented Modern Society

23

Latinization VIII: A Ruthenian Tragedy, 1870-1910

24

Baldwin IV: the Leper King

25

What We've Been Reading (2023)

26

What Happened to the Liturgical Movement?

27

Latinization VII: Southern & Eastern Europe, 1450-1800

28

Latinization VI: The Latinization of the Thomas Christians, c. 1500-1800

29

Where Does it Say What the Pope Can't Do?

30

Of Smurfs and Synodality

31

Latinization, Episode V: The Church of the East, 1450-1800

32

Listener Response and Updates

33

ReView: God Owes Us Nothing

34

Word Youth Day Syndrome

35

Anscombe, Truman and the Bomb

36

Modernism as Colonialism

37

ReView: Kingdom of Heaven

38

The Rise and Fall of the Integrated Humanities Program, 1966-1979

39

Latinization, Episode IV: the Ottoman World, 1450-1800

40

ReView: Becket

41

Shorts: The Maronites in Renaissance Rome

42

ReView: A Man For All Seasons

43

Latinization, Episode III: The Era of Reformations, 1450-1750

44

Galileo's Ghost: The Trial of Galileo & the Modern Myth of Expertise

45

Shorts: Benedict XIV on Latinization

46

Is the Pope an Absolute Monarch?

47

The Arian Crisis, c320-381

48

Latinization, Episode II: The Middle Ages

49

ReView: HBO's Rome

50

Pope Joan

51

ReView: The Tudors

52

ReView: William Oddie's "The Roman Option"

53

Cardinal McElroy's Dubious History

54

Latinization, Episode I: What It Is, Why It Matters

55

The Reformation of the World: the Gregorian Reform, c.1050-1150

56

Updates & an Ordinariate Defense

57

State of the Podcast Update

58

What We've Been Reading: 2022

59

Catholic Lives, Episode 15: Orestes Brownson--the American Newman

60

Church Musings 10/22

61

Much Ado About Integralism, 1872-Present

62

Kulturkampf: the German War on Catholicism, 1871-1890

63

Heresy, American Style: The Americanist Crisis, 1890-1900

64

Was Shakespeare Catholic?

65

Mass of the Ages & Conspiracy Theories

66

My Conversion Story

67

Catholic Lives, Episode 15: Orestes Brownson, The American Newman

68

Catholic Lives, Episode 14: Hugh Ross-Williamson

69

Catholic Liberalism, Episode VII: Assessing the Legacy

70

Catholic Liberalism, Episode VI: Eclipse, 1870-1905

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Catholic Liberalism, Episode V: Catholic Liberalism in Retreat, 1848-1870

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Catholic Liberalism, Episode IV: The Varieties of Liberalism, 1815-1848

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Catholic Liberalism, Episode III: Lamennais & the Origins of Liberalism, 1817-1834

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Catholic Liberalism, Episode II: Revolutionary Times, 1789-1848

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Catholic Liberalism, Episode I: Introduction

76

The Union of Brest (1596) & the Ukrainian Catholic Church

77

Liberation Theology, Ep. IV: A Permanent Revolution? 1980-Present

78

Liberation Theology, Ep. III: Liberation Struggles, 1968-1980

79

Liberation Theology, Ep. II: Awakenings, 1958-1968

80

Liberation Theology, Ep. I: Latin America to 1960

81

The Vatican-China Agreement

82

The Church & the Baroque

83

Conciliarism

84

Darkness and Light: The Church from WWII to Vatican II

85

The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 2: "Disobedient People," 1964-1974

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The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 5: Back to the Future, 1988-Present

87

The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 4: Divisions, 1976-1988

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The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 3: Rebel Priests, 1964-1978

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The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 2: "Disobedient People," 1964-1974 (Pt. 2)

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The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 2: "Disobedient People," 1964-1974 (Pt. 1)

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The Traditionalist Movement, 1964-Present: Episode 1, The Outsiders

92

Catholic Lives, Episode 13--The Outlaw: "Bloody" Bill Longley

93

Great Heresies: Jansenism, 1640-1801

94

Catholic Lives Ep. 7: The Catholic Founding Father

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Catholic Lives, Episode 12--From Victim to Icon: Artemisia Gentileschi

96

Councils of the Church: The Council of Trent, 1545-1563

97

In the News: Catholic Indian Schools in Canada

98

Councils of the Church: The Council of Constance, 1414-1418

99

Vatican II: Continuity or Rupture?

100

Catholic Lives, Episode 11: American Moses

101

Support

102

Catholic Lives Episode 10: the Knight Prisoner

103

Controversies in Church History (Trailer)

104

The Catholic Charismatic Movement, 1967-Present

105

Dignitatis Humanae: Religious Liberty & the Church

106

The Modernist Crisis, c.1890-1920

107

Evolution and the Catholic Church, 1859-Present

108

Development of Doctrine, 1845-Present

109

Catholic Lives Ep. 9: Captive, Convert and Mother Superior in Colonial America

110

Catholic Lives Ep. 8: The Poet-Priest of the South and the Confederate General

111

Humanae Vitae

112

The Case of Edgaro Mortara

113

The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417

114

Great Heresies: John Wyclif and the Lollards

115

1054 and All That: the Latin-Byzantine Schism

116

The First Council of Nicaea

117

The Wars of Religion, 1524-1649

118

Black Legends: Myths of the Spanish Conquest

119

The Church and the Holocaust

120

The First Vatican Council & Papal Infallibility

121

Catholic Lives Ep. 6: The Pope That Excommunicated Napoleon

122

The Trial and Condemnation of Galileo

123

Catholic Lives Ep. 5: The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz

124

The Protestant Reformation

125

Catholic Lives Ep. 4: The Last Roman Emperor

126

The Inquisition

127

Catholic Lives Ep. 3: A Woman Author in Charlemagne's Empire

128

The Crusades

129

Deaconesses in the Early Church

130

Catholic Lives Ep. 2: Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967)

131

Liturgy Wars: Catholic Liturgy Since Vatican II

132

Necessary Additions? The Marian Dogmas, 1854 & 1950

133

Catholic Lives Ep. 1: The Battalion of St. Patrick

134

Clerical Celibacy in the Early Church

135

By This Sign Conquer: the Conversion of Constantine