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The Lumen Christi Institute — 231 episodes

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The Birth of Ossian with Martin Shaw

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Mythopoetics and Faerie Stories: Theory and Practice of Mythmaking with Martin Shaw

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Mythmaking and the True Myth - A Conversation with Martin Shaw

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Augustine the Teacher with Erika Kidd

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Season Finale - Special Episode

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Why Do We Need Saints and Miracles? with Carlos Eire

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A History of the Impossible: Carlos Eire on They Flew

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Romans (Episode 3/3)

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Romans (Episode 2/3)

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Romans (Episode 1/3)

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Matthew (Episode 5/5)

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Matthew (Episode 4/5)

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Our Hearts Are Restless: Augustine’s Confessions and Modern Anxiety with Scott Moringiello

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Matthew (Episode 3/5)

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Matthew (Episode 2/5)

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Matthew (Episode 1/5)

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Jeremiah (Episode 1/1)

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Isaiah (Episode 2/2)

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Isaiah (Episode 1/2)

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Amos and Hosea (Episode 1/1)

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Ezekial and Daniel (Episode 1/1)

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Elijah (Episode 1/1)

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Judges (Episode 7/7)

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Judges (Episode 6/7)

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A Spiritual Manual for the Technological Age: A Discussion of Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine

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Judges (Episode 5/7)

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Judges (Episode 4/7)

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Judges (Episode 3/7)

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Judges (Episode 2/7)

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Judges (Episode 1/7)

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Genesis (Episode 2/2)

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Genesis (Episode 1/2)

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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 6/6)

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“In the One, we are One”: Christian Unity and the City of God with Jared Ortiz

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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 5/6)

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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 4/6)

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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 3/6)

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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 2/6)

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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 1/6)

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What Can We Say About God? An Interview with David Novak on God-Talk

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Christianity, Culture, and Sport: From Play to Virtue

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A Catholic Vision of Art: Beauty – The Highway to God

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The Story of Catholic Education: Renewing Our Schools, Renewing Our Culture

44

Care of Souls in Inquisition Spain

45

America's Real Sister Act: The Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States

46

Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis

47

On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law

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What is Catholic Culture?

49

The Bond of All Creation: Renaissance Humanism and the Incarnate Word

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Do We Know More than the Apostles? Or, Do Doctrines Develop?

51

Rethinking Economic Inequality: a Theological Perspective

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Pro and Con: Does Faith Ignore Reason?

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A Marion Moment in Catholic Thought: A Conversation with Jean-Luc Marion and Ken Woodward

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Ecumenical Panel on For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church

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Technology, Liturgy, and the Work of Human Hands

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The Boldness of Belief and Timidity of Technology

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AI Ethics, Human Flourishing, and Trust in Health Care

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Can We Be Good On Our Own? Ancient Pagans and Modern Scientists on Thomistic Moral Virtue

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Populations, Persons, and Precision Medicine: The Ethics of Emerging Information Technologies

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Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice - Session 2

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Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice - Session 1

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Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences

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Romano Guardini on Technology and Liturgy

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Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas

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Literary Traditions and the Pursuit of Truth: A Culture of Humility

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Dante and a Poet's Journey in Hope

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Dante the Theologian: Ken Woodward Interviews Denys Turner

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Aristotle's Great-Souled Man in Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Saint Augustine

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The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry

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Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature

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A Conversation on Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life

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Singing the Sacred: Music and the Holy in Ancient Christianity

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Michelangelo's Women: Feminine Genius in the Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel

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Conscience And Human Rights In Thomas Aquinas And Some Predecessors

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Virtue, Moral Formation, and the University

76

The One Thing Necessary: Monasticism and Philosophy

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An Inquiry into the Value of Work: A Discussion of Matt Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft

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What is Ideology? A Conversation with Mark Shiffman and James Matthew Wilson

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Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action

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An Unknown Constellation: Hannah Arendt Reads Étienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain

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How Can We Flourish?

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The Future of Natural Law

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Symposium on The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law

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Polarization, Social Cohesion, and the Economy

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Gregor Mendel at his Bicentennial: Highlights of his Life and Legacy

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Walker Percy and the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times

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A Life in Service of the Truth: The Legacy of Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ

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Saint Among the Skyscrapers: The American Afterlife of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini

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A Philosophy of Work, Leisure, and Catholic Culture

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Gender, the Body, and Holiness in the Middle Ages

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The Human Person and Biotechnology: Artificial Intelligence and its Limitations

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The Vocation of a Theologian: The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI

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Race and Justice In America

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René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment

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The Crisis of Mysticism: Quietism in 17th Century Spain, Italy, and France

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United by Their Loves: Deciphering Augustine’s Understanding of a People

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Beauty and Justice in the City: the Restoration of St. Adalbert's, in Pilsen

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Claudia Herrera and Jose Matos Auffant - Latino Youth and Evangelization

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Was Something Lost? Thomas Aquinas, Intellectual Disability, & the 16th c. Spanish Colonial Debates

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David Lantigua - Fratelli Tutti and the Latino Social Teaching of Pope Francis

101

David Meconi S.J. - Ambrose and Augustine on Christian Holiness

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Hosffman Ospino - Teaching Catholic Doctrine en Español

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The Origins of Mass Incarceration: The Courts and the 1960s Criminal Procedure Revolution?

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Elizabeth Lev - A Good Man Is Hard to Find: St. Joseph in Art

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Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist - How to Be a Corinthian

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Fragile Democracy: Technocratic Takeover and Popular Renewal

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Fr. Mark Rotsaert, SJ - Spirituality and the Saints

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Learning Poverty and Education Pluralism: The Global Catholic Education Report 2021

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Patrick Geary - Pledges of the Saints: The Cult of Relics in the Catholic Tradition

110

Yves Simon on Natural Law

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Fr. John O'Malley, SJ - Humanism as an Educational Ideal

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Beyond Test Scores: Measuring the Contributions of Catholic Schools

113

Partners in Charity: St. Louise de Marillac and St. Vincent de Paul

114

Is there a Catholic Vote? An Evangelical Vote? Religion, Polls, and Presidential Elections

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John L. Allen Jr. - COVID-19 and the Worldwide Church

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A Catholic Life in the Secular University: A Conversation with George Dennis O'Brien

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Food Insecurity in the U.S.: Insights from Catholic Social Thought and Economics

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Sam Conedera, SJ - Friends in Heaven: Edmund Campion and the Martyrs of England & Wales

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Thinking Inside and Outside the University: Zena Hitz on the Inner Life

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Metropolitan Borys Gudziak - Quo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology

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John O'Malley, SJ - Venerating the Saints: An Ancient Tradition Actual Today

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Fratelli Tutti: Engaging Pope Francis's New Encyclical on Social Friendship

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Stephen Barr - Fearful Symmetry: Cosmic Order and a Divine Creator

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The United Nations at 75: Catholic Perspectives

125

Integral Bioethics in the Anthropocene

126

Erin Walsh - Expanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today

127

Alexander Laschuk - Eastern Churches, Latin Territories

128

Robin Darling Young - Christ the Lover of Mankind

129

Andrew Hayes - A Theology of Wonder: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ephrem the Syrian

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Daniel Galadza - Introduction to Liturgical Mystagogy

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Peter Casarella - Passage to Modernity: Renaissance Christianity Today

132

Torrance Kirby - Richard Hooker’s Sapiential Theology: Reformed Platonism?

133

Douglas Hedley - Reason and Beauty in Cambridge Platonism

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Pondering Hiroshima

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Valentina Zaffino - Giordano Bruno and the Poetry of the Cosmos

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Richard Oosterhoff - Measure and Mathematics in Renaissance Philosophy

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Tamara Albertini - Women Humanists in the Renaissance: Paradise and Free Speech in Moderata Fonte

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Denis Robichaud - Marsilio Ficino and the Philosophy of Plato

139

What Evolution Does and Does Not Tell Us about Humans

140

Dante as Poet and Philosopher

141

Race, Justice, and Catholicism

142

Christians in Times of Catastrophe: Augustine's "City of God"

143

David Albertson - Nicholas of Cusa

144

Various - Lessons After the Lockdown: Public Health, Economics, and the Common Good

145

Bernard McGinn - Meister Eckhart

146

Kevin Hughes - Saint Bonaventure

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Bernard McGinn and Willemien Otten - Apocalypticism in Times of Crisis

148

Katie Bugyis - The Wisdom of Enclosure in Julian of Norwich's Showings

149

Willemien Otten - Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux

150

Various - The Economic Costs of the Pandemic: Catholic Social Teaching and Economics in Dialogue

151

Disease and the Problem of Evil

152

Brian Carl - Thomas Aquinas on Ways to Know God

153

Aaron Canty - Anselm of Canterbury on the Rationality of Faith

154

Cardinal Francis George, the American Contribution to Catholic Social Thought, & Our Current Moment

155

Michel Zink - The Contemplation of God in Medieval Literature

156

Regina M. Schwartz - Love Your Enemies: Retribution and Forgiveness

157

Gregory the Great on Reading Scripture for Wisdom

158

Rémi Brague and Jean-Luc Marion - Does Christianity Need Metaphysics?

159

John Cavadini - The Grand Design: An Augustinian Reply to Stephen Hawking

160

John Haught - Science, Faith, and the New Atheism

161

Stephen M. Barr - Evolution and the Catholic Faith

162

Nicanor Austriaco, OP - Genome Editing with CRISPR: Dignity and Other Faith-Based Considerations

163

Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict with Stephen M. Barr

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Stephen Meredith - The Modern Scientist as a Palimpsest of Three Fausts

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Peter Harrison - Religious Origins of Modern Science?

166

Flannery O'Connor and the Vision of Grace

167

Gustavo Gutierrez - On Óscar Romero and Pope Francis

168

Becoming Human in Light of the Gospel of John

169

Various - The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy

170

Andrew Prevot - The Hope of Exodus in Black Theology

171

Various - The Legacy of Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC

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Various - Achieving the Goals of "Oeconomicae et Pecuniariae Quaestiones"

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Michael Lee - The Life and Legacy of Saint Óscar Romero

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Various - Reconsidering the Values of Finance

175

Various - Financial Markets and Moral Inquiry

176

Various - Catholicism and Democracy

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Various - Symposium On Science And Wonder

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Michael Murphy - The Catholic Imagination

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Rev. John Kartje - Creation And Cosmology

180

Meghan Sullivan - Faith And Reason

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Various - Action Versus Contemplation: Why An Ancient Debate Still Matters

182

Various - Sacred Music in Context and Practice

183

John Inazu and Eboo Patel - Pluralism In A Polarized Age

184

Luigi Zingales - The Vatican And Finance

185

Jean-Luc Marion - What Do We Mean When We Speak Of Revelation?

186

Daniels, Hittinger, and Sweeney, OP - The Catholic Church In Crisis

187

Scott J. Freidheim - The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: An Inside Story

188

Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP - How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity

189

Émilie Tardivel-Schick - Christian Citizenship: A Paradox?

190

Émilie Tardivel-Schick - Interview

191

Jonathan Lunine - Georges Lemaître: His Science, Faith, and Why “Hubble’s Law” Ought to be Renamed

192

O'Malley, Hittinger, Mueller - Vatican I: Loss and Gain With Papal Governance of the Catholic Church

193

Gerard Bradley - Interview

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Joseph Singer - Judging as Judgment

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Rachel Fulton Brown - Interview

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Fr. Kevin Flannery, SJ - Interview

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Bernie McGinn - Interview

198

Fr. Andrew Liaugminas - Interview

199

Donald Bungum - Interview

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What Is Freedom? Some Reflections From Augustine

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Russell Hittinger - Interview

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Ulrich Lehner - Catholic Reform: the Council of Trent and the Catholic Enlightenment

203

Paul Mariani - A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens' Late Poems Revisited

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David O'Connor - Plato's Bedroom: Desire, Union, and Procreation

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Trinity Lutheran and the Future of Public Funding for Religious Entities

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Body, Eros, And Eucharist

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Elizabeth Anscombe on Living the Truth

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Jennifer Frey - Interview

209

Rémi Brague - Interview

210

Athens, Jerusalem, and Alexandria: Christian Wisdom Between the Bible and Greek Philosophy

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Religion and Religious Expression in the Academy and Public Life

212

Science And Theology Of Habitable Worlds Around Other Stars

213

The State Of Religion In America

214

Thick And Dazzling Darkness

215

Jim Stoner - The Dignity of Politics

216

Fr. Stephen Fields, SJ - Interview

217

The Future of Liberalism: Relativism Confronts St. Augustine

218

Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes From a Black Catholic Perspective with Darren Davis

219

The Moral Theology of Aquinas: Is it for Individuals?

220

Fr. Wojciech Giertych, OP - Interview

221

Why Liberalism Failed with Patrick Deenen

222

Patrick Deneen - Interview

223

The Witness of Contemplative Women in the Heart of the Church

224

Silence, Prayer, and Contemplation in a Secular Society

225

Jean Bethke Elshtain - Reason & Regensburg: Pope Benedict and the Dialogue of Cultures

226

Hans Joas - Does Secularization Lead To Moral Decline?

227

Against Nostalgia: Catholicism, History, and Modernity

228

Denys Turner - Faith, Reason, and the Eucharist

229

Jean-Luc Marion - Is There A Christian Philosophy?

230

Early Modern Catholic Social Teaching and World Order with David Lantigua

231

Anders Cardinal Arborelius - Interview