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Controversies in Church History — 136 episodes
A Liberal Revolution: an Interview with Dr. Hanael Bianchi
ReView: The Problem of Unbelief in the Sixteenth Century
Charting the Crisis in the Church: an Interview with James Green
Charles de Gaulle and Vatican II
What We've Been Reading 2025 (ish)
Did Pius IX Create Pope Francis?
Interview: the Council of Nicaea with Ben Wyatt
Are Catholic Traditionalists "Jansenists"?
The Perennial Heresy: Montanism, c. 160-600 AD
Church Musings: Thoughts on a New Pope
That the Bones You Have Crushed May Rejoice: the Origins of the Cult of Relics
Guadalupe & the Flower World: an Interview with Joseph and Monique Gonzalez
Updates/Upcoming Episodes and Other Things
Cloud of Witnesses: The Origins of the Cult of the Saints
Church Musings: The Reformation as Elite Crisis
Christendom's Image Crisis: the Iconoclast Controversy, 724-843
Persecution, Schism and Genocide: the Trials of Armenian Catholics, c. 1700-1928 (Latinization X)
What We've Been Reading: 2024 Edition
The Papacy and the Orthodox: an Interview with Erick Ybarra
Upcoming Events: ICC Lecture & Interview with Erick Ybarra
Chateaubriand and the Genius of Catholicism
Latinization IX: The Papacy and the Eastern Churches, 1846-1958
The Church WEIRD: How the Medieval Church Invented Modern Society
Latinization VIII: A Ruthenian Tragedy, 1870-1910
Baldwin IV: the Leper King
What We've Been Reading (2023)
What Happened to the Liturgical Movement?
Latinization VII: Southern & Eastern Europe, 1450-1800
Latinization VI: The Latinization of the Thomas Christians, c. 1500-1800
Where Does it Say What the Pope Can't Do?
Of Smurfs and Synodality
Latinization, Episode V: The Church of the East, 1450-1800
Listener Response and Updates
ReView: God Owes Us Nothing
Word Youth Day Syndrome
Anscombe, Truman and the Bomb
Modernism as Colonialism
ReView: Kingdom of Heaven
The Rise and Fall of the Integrated Humanities Program, 1966-1979
Latinization, Episode IV: the Ottoman World, 1450-1800
ReView: Becket
Shorts: The Maronites in Renaissance Rome
ReView: A Man For All Seasons
Latinization, Episode III: The Era of Reformations, 1450-1750
Galileo's Ghost: The Trial of Galileo & the Modern Myth of Expertise
Shorts: Benedict XIV on Latinization
Is the Pope an Absolute Monarch?
The Arian Crisis, c320-381
Latinization, Episode II: The Middle Ages
ReView: HBO's Rome
Pope Joan
ReView: The Tudors
ReView: William Oddie's "The Roman Option"
Cardinal McElroy's Dubious History
Latinization, Episode I: What It Is, Why It Matters
The Reformation of the World: the Gregorian Reform, c.1050-1150
Updates & an Ordinariate Defense
State of the Podcast Update
What We've Been Reading: 2022
Catholic Lives, Episode 15: Orestes Brownson--the American Newman
Church Musings 10/22
Much Ado About Integralism, 1872-Present
Kulturkampf: the German War on Catholicism, 1871-1890
Heresy, American Style: The Americanist Crisis, 1890-1900
Was Shakespeare Catholic?
Mass of the Ages & Conspiracy Theories
My Conversion Story
Catholic Lives, Episode 15: Orestes Brownson, The American Newman
Catholic Lives, Episode 14: Hugh Ross-Williamson
Catholic Liberalism, Episode VII: Assessing the Legacy
Catholic Liberalism, Episode VI: Eclipse, 1870-1905
Catholic Liberalism, Episode V: Catholic Liberalism in Retreat, 1848-1870
Catholic Liberalism, Episode IV: The Varieties of Liberalism, 1815-1848
Catholic Liberalism, Episode III: Lamennais & the Origins of Liberalism, 1817-1834
Catholic Liberalism, Episode II: Revolutionary Times, 1789-1848
Catholic Liberalism, Episode I: Introduction
The Union of Brest (1596) & the Ukrainian Catholic Church
Liberation Theology, Ep. IV: A Permanent Revolution? 1980-Present
Liberation Theology, Ep. III: Liberation Struggles, 1968-1980
Liberation Theology, Ep. II: Awakenings, 1958-1968
Liberation Theology, Ep. I: Latin America to 1960
The Vatican-China Agreement
The Church & the Baroque
Conciliarism
Darkness and Light: The Church from WWII to Vatican II
The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 2: "Disobedient People," 1964-1974
The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 5: Back to the Future, 1988-Present
The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 4: Divisions, 1976-1988
The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 3: Rebel Priests, 1964-1978
The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 2: "Disobedient People," 1964-1974 (Pt. 2)
The Traditionalist Movement, Episode 2: "Disobedient People," 1964-1974 (Pt. 1)
The Traditionalist Movement, 1964-Present: Episode 1, The Outsiders
Catholic Lives, Episode 13--The Outlaw: "Bloody" Bill Longley
Great Heresies: Jansenism, 1640-1801
Catholic Lives Ep. 7: The Catholic Founding Father
Catholic Lives, Episode 12--From Victim to Icon: Artemisia Gentileschi
Councils of the Church: The Council of Trent, 1545-1563
In the News: Catholic Indian Schools in Canada
Councils of the Church: The Council of Constance, 1414-1418
Vatican II: Continuity or Rupture?
Catholic Lives, Episode 11: American Moses
Support
Catholic Lives Episode 10: the Knight Prisoner
Controversies in Church History (Trailer)
The Catholic Charismatic Movement, 1967-Present
Dignitatis Humanae: Religious Liberty & the Church
The Modernist Crisis, c.1890-1920
Evolution and the Catholic Church, 1859-Present
Development of Doctrine, 1845-Present
Catholic Lives Ep. 9: Captive, Convert and Mother Superior in Colonial America
Catholic Lives Ep. 8: The Poet-Priest of the South and the Confederate General
Humanae Vitae
The Case of Edgaro Mortara
The Great Western Schism, 1378-1417
Great Heresies: John Wyclif and the Lollards
1054 and All That: the Latin-Byzantine Schism
The First Council of Nicaea
The Wars of Religion, 1524-1649
Black Legends: Myths of the Spanish Conquest
The Church and the Holocaust
The First Vatican Council & Papal Infallibility
Catholic Lives Ep. 6: The Pope That Excommunicated Napoleon
The Trial and Condemnation of Galileo
Catholic Lives Ep. 5: The Man Who Volunteered for Auschwitz
The Protestant Reformation
Catholic Lives Ep. 4: The Last Roman Emperor
The Inquisition
Catholic Lives Ep. 3: A Woman Author in Charlemagne's Empire
The Crusades
Deaconesses in the Early Church
Catholic Lives Ep. 2: Konrad Adenauer (1876-1967)
Liturgy Wars: Catholic Liturgy Since Vatican II
Necessary Additions? The Marian Dogmas, 1854 & 1950
Catholic Lives Ep. 1: The Battalion of St. Patrick
Clerical Celibacy in the Early Church
By This Sign Conquer: the Conversion of Constantine