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Thomas Aquinas College Lectures & Talks — 409 episodes
“The Problem of Bread: Art and Nature in Thomas’s Ontology of Artifacts”
“Metaphysics of Peace”
“Theology as a Guide to Aquinas’s Cognitive Philosophy”
“Ways of Seeing: Experience of Lower Methods as Prior to Divine Science”
“Thomas Aquinas’s Philosophical Doctrine of Creation”
“Plotinus: Omnipresence and Transcendence of the One in VI 5 [23]”
“Two Distinctions of the Same Realities: Movement and Activity vs. Transitive and Immanent Action”
“Aquinas on Simplicity and Analogy: A Problem in Natural Theology”
“Privatizing the Good: The Metaphysical Roots of Envy in St. Thomas Aquinas”
“‘Let One the Ruler Be, One the King’: The Many Gods of Aristotle’s XII.8”
“The Treatise on the Divine Essence within Sacra Doctrina: Its Importance and its Properly Theological Character”
“The Order of the Universe as the Greatest Good Intrinsic to It”
“Substance and Form in Human Being”
“Aquinas on the Western Tradition of Divine Simplicity”
“Hans Urs von Balthasar and St. Thomas Aquinas on Divine Suffering and Theological Predication”
“How to Start Metaphysics”
“Analogica Entis, Abstraction via Seperatio, and the Subject Matter of Metaphysics”
“St. Thomas the Hopeful Romantic”
"A Fractured Mirror? Multiplicity and Intellection in Aquinas's Account of Eucharistic Presence"
"The Sky Upholds the Earth"
“The Madness of Our Chase for Wisdom”
"Smugglers"
“Become Peacemakers in an Age of Confusion”
“This Wisdom is a Grasping of God”
“No Other End than the Truth Itself”
"Music of the Triduum: A Spring Concert"
"The Bible and Baptism"
"Thucydides as a Philosopher"
"What is Wisdom?"
"Rational Mind and Non-Rational Agency: Aquinas’ Augustinian Account of the Sinning Will"
"How the Idea of Divine Providence Shaped the Careers of Brown, Douglass, & Lincoln"
"Foreign Policy Principles Underlining the Constitution"
AI and Humanity: What our Machines Say About Us - The Mind and the Machine: Episode 10
The Mind and the Machine - Main Theme
The Mind and the Machine - Intro Sequence & Credits
The Transcendentals
An Unknown Quantity
Faith Seeking Understanding
AI Will Never Think — Thinking Requires Life - The Mind and the Machine, Episode 9
“The Eucharist and Typology”
"Aquinas and Consequentialism"
Why AI Will Never Truly Think - The Mind and the Machine: Episode 8
The Gödel Problem: A Mathematical Argument Against AI Thought, The Mind and the Machine, Episode 7
Does Ai Understand? - Mind and Machine: Episode 6
Does AI Understand? - Mind and Machine Episode 5
“The Noble Due: Aquinas and Debitum Morale”
Does AI Really Think? - The Mind and the Machine: Episode 4
How Minds Know - Mind and Machine Episode 3
What is Artificial Intelligence? The Mind and the Machine Episode 2
Is ChatGPT a Person - The Mind and the Machine Lesson 1
“How Scripture Requires All Christians to be Catholic”
“Literature and the Renewal of Moral Philosophy”
“At the Heart of Sexual Ethics: Reflections on Aquinas and Wojtyla”
“Art as Imitation: An Aristotelian Re-Activation”
"On the Definition of Person"
“A Dumb Ox's Prayer to Bellow”
“Homosexuality, a Corrupt Complexio and Brutishness”
“Aquinas vs Scotus vs Aquinas on the Intrinsic Divisibility of Dimensive Quantity”
“Aquinas, Boethius, and the Art of Commentary”
“Aquinas’s Application of the Essence-Energy Distinction to the Divine Attributes in the Summa”
“The Best Praeambulum Fidei”
“Edith Stein, the Perennial Philosophy, and the Problem of Women”
Analogy in Aquinas: Development or Consistency?
Magistri Est Ordinare
“A Midsummer Night’s Dream: Funny Profundity, or Inane and Profane?”
“‘þe best boke of roumaunce’: Form and Meaning in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight”
“The Neo-Aristotelian Nature of the Sexes”
“The Place of a Knowledge of History in the Well Educated Human Person”
"Why Do We Need Questions?"
“Liberal Education and its Rivals”
"A Posture of Receptivity"
"The Wisdom of the Cross"
“We Need to Look at Jesus”
“That All May Grasp and Rightly Understand”
Address to the TAC Class of 2029
“We Were Part of one of the Greatest Endeavors in the World”
“Illusion or Illumination”
Trust in the Abundant Graces
Anthony Santine (CA’25)
A Spirit of Mercy
“Space and Time in Modern Cosmology”
“Ten Things I Wish I Knew about the ‘Five Ways’ When I was Twenty“
“What is the Life of the Mind?”
“The Framers’ Vision and the Modern Administrative State Modern Administrative State”
“Pascal’s Wager: A Gambler’s Commentary”
“The Wisdom of the Teaching of Christ as a Sign of the Truth of the Christian Religion”
“The Extremity of Love: On Homer’s Achilles”
The Problem of Principles from Aristotle’s Posterior Analytics
“Aquinas’s Theory of Infused Moral Virtue”
TAC Webinar: Estate & Financial Planning for Life & Legacy
“God, Mathematics, and Beauty”
“Contemporary Catholic Errors About Being ‘Merciful’ and ‘Pastoral’”
“On the Freedom of a Theologian”
“The What and Why of Literature”
“Truth Exists, and We Are Challenged to Pursue Truth”
“All’s Well that Begins Well”
“The Finished Work of Holy Mercy”
Three Treasures of Monastic Life for TAC Students
Commencement Address 2024
Student Address, Commencement 2024
Homily at the 2024 Baccalaureate Mass of the Holy Spirit
Lecture: “St. Thomas on Scripture”
Tutor Talk, Dr. Carol Day: “The Multiverse: Science or Science Fiction?"
“Politics and Happiness”
Tutor Talk, Dr. John McCarthy ('11): “Philosophy and the Desire for God’s Face”
“What Does it Mean for Intellect and Intelligible to be Identical?”
“Lying with Tom Aquinas and Huckleberry Finn”
“Monuments and Memory, Made and Unmade”
New England Christmas Concert 2023
Dr. O'Reilly's Thanksgiving Address 2023
“He Hath Remembered His Mercy”
"The Discovery of Entropy and its Significance"
"The Gradations of Things in the Realm of Material Living Beings"
“Homer through a Microscope and a Wide-Angle Lens”
"The Moral Basis of Criminal Punishment: Thomistic and Platonic Reflections"
"Against the God of the Gaps"
"The Little Flower, the Dumb Ox, and the Rest of Us"
“War and Peace: In Search of an Ending”
“Mind and World in Aristotle’s De Anima”
“Fides Quaerens Intellectum”
Advice for Incoming Freshmen
“Humility, the Foundation of All Other Virtues”
Matriculation Address 2023
Rev. Miguel Batres' Homily at New England Convocation 2023
“Why G. E. Moore Could Have Used A Few Lessons in Thomistic Psychology”
“Aquinas’s Proof for the Human Soul’s Subsistence”
“The Soul and the Natural Division of Living Things at the Most Universal Level”
“The Soul as Imago Dei: The Image of the Trinity according to Nature and Grace”
Bishop Conley’s Address to the Class of 2023
Class Speaker - California Commencement 2023
Bishop Conley's Baccalaureate Mass Homily
President's Dinner Address, California 2023
New England Commencement Address 2023
Senior Address | New England Commencement, 2023
Homily from the New England 2023 Baccalaureate Mass
New England Sophomore Andrew Le Appears on “River Streams” Christian Radio
Tutor Talk: "How to Read and Appreciate Poetry"
President’s Day Lecture: "The Primacy of the Common Good"
Tutor Talk: "Liturgy as the Purpose of Creation in the Torah"
St. Thomas Day Lecture: "Thomas Aquinas, Spiritual Master and Saint for Our Times"
Tutor Talk: "Charity and the Intellectual Life"
"'In the Beginning was the Word': The Mystery of the Trinity in the Prologue to the Gospel of John"
St. Thomas Day Lecture: "Free Choice: What It Is Not, and What It Is"
St. Thomas Day Homily: The Universal Doctor on Humility
"The Role of Dialectic in Liberal Education"
Homily at the Funeral Mass for Laurence L. Shields
Advent Lessons and Carols 2022
“Let us Give Him Thanks for the Gift of Faith”
“Be Thankful for All that We Have Received”
Homily at the Requiem Mass for Marilyn McArthur
"Lessons of the Nicomachean Ethics"
“Shakespeare’s ‘little Academe/ Still and contemplative in living art.’”
“God Blesses Those Faithful to Him”
"Let Us Re-Dedicate Ourselves to Thomas Aquinas College"
"The Shining College Upon a Hill"
Remarks at the Inauguration of Paul J. O’Reilly
"Shaping a Vessel for Mercy: The Life of Abraham"
“What the New Atheists Can Teach Us About Our Program”
President Paul J. O'Reilly's Remarks at California Matriculation 2022
Fr. Michael Hurley's Remarks at California Matriculation 2022
Fr. Michael Hurley's Homily at Convocation CA 2022
Fr. John Higgin's Homily at Convocation 2022
“A Journey of the Intellect, Will, Heart, and Conscience into the Brilliant Light of the Truth”
“If We Love Wisdom, We Must Love Mary, for Wisdom Loved Her First”
“The Light of Christ Enriches Our Faith and Illuminates Our Intellects”
“Take Up the Vocation of the Catholic Intellectual Life”
“This Education is Training for Happiness”
“Heroic People Need Heroes”
Talk at Thomas Aquinas College
“The Concept of Person in the Philosophical Thought of John Paul II”
Lecture: “The Woman Caught in Adultery, John 7:53–8:11”
Liberalism and Integralism
A Debate: Do Plants Have Sensation?
Homily at Thomas Aquinas College, New England
“This Chapel is a Sign of Hope and Trust”
“The Benefits of a Thomas Aquinas College Education”
“The Double Flame: Thomas Aquinas on the Mystery of Love”
“From His Fullness We Have All Received”: Understanding the Human Knowledge of Christ
St. Thomas Day Homily
“Toads and Flamingos: Longing, Lamentation, and Love in Lyric Poetry”
Max Tittmann (’22) appears on Ave Maria Radio’s “Mast Appeal”
President McLean's 2021 Thanksgiving Address
“The Mantle of Eumaios”
Catholic Social Teaching in Action: The Work of the Holy See at the United Nations
St. Thomas Aquinas on Predestination and the Distinction between Operative and Cooperative Grace
Archbishop Gomez’s Homily at the 50th Anniversary Mass of Thanksgiving
President McLean's Remarks at New England Alumni & Parent Day, 2021
Bishop Byrne: You are on a Messiah Mission
Fr. Buckley's Homily at a Memorial Mass for Sam Morson (’24)
“The Development of Christian Doctrine and Catholic Liberal Education”
“Science and Freedom”
President McLean's Address at the 2021 Alumni Dinner: “Countercultural for 50 Years”
Commencement 2020 Address - "Hold Fast to Faith"
Commencement 2020 Homily - “Hold Fast to Faith”
Senior Speaker, Commencement 2020
Senior Address, Commencement 2021
Bishop Paprocki's Homily from the 2021 Baccalaureate Mass
Bishop Paprocki's 2021 Commencement Address
Rev. Ryan Rooney: Homily at TAC, New England (4/22/2021)
Dr. Christopher O. Blum: “Beginnings and Ends in Biology”
Dr. Carol Day: Lining Up Numbers, The Place of Books 7 - 9 in Euclid's Elements
“The Ground of Metaphysics”
The Stations as a Spiritual Journey to Our Lord’s Passion
“Born on the Fourth of July”
The Declaration of Independence — Image or Shadow?
On the Discussion Method of Teaching
President McLean's Thanksgiving 2020 Address
“Lining Up Numbers: The Place of Books 7-9 in Euclid’s Elements”
In Defense of the Aeneid
Is Logic a Necessary Part of a Liberal Education?
Dr. Michael A. Augros: Mathematics and Liberal Learning
"On the Purposes of Catholic Liberal Education"
“God Holds You in His Provident Hands” - Bishop McManus' Remarks from Matriculation 2020
Renew the Face of the Earth: Homily from the 2020 New England Convocation Mass
Fr. Deacaen's Homily at the Funeral Mass for Fred Arthur ('96)
St. Thomas On The Plurality Of Forms - Dr. David R. Arias
Spring Concert 2015 - Part I
Spring Concert 2015 - Part II
40th Anniversary Gala: Rev. Sebastian Walshe, O.Praem. (’94)
40th Anniversary Gala: Brenna Scanlon ('06)
40th Anniversary Gala: Michael F. McLean
40th Anniversary Gala: Rev. Wojciech Giertych, O.P.
2011 Advent Concert - Part II
2011 Advent Concert - Part I
Hugh Hewitt’s Campus Broadcast, Hour 3: Peter DeLuca, Dr. Jeff Lehman
Hugh Hewitt’s Campus Broadcast, Hour 2: Dr. David Appelby, Tom Krause, Dr. Brian Kelly
Hugh Hewitt’s Campus Broadcast, Hour 1: Dr. Michael McClean, Duncan Stroik
Michael Paietta Memorial - Kay Paietta
Michael Paietta Memorial - Dr. Michael F. McLean
Michael Paietta Memorial - Dr. Brian T. Kelly
Michael Paietta Memorial - Dr. Gregory L. Froelich (’83)
Michael Paietta Memorial - Dr. John W. Neumayr
Michael Paietta Memorial - Peter L. DeLuca
Michael Paietta Memorial - Dr. Ronald P. McArthur
Michael Paietta Memorial - Homily
“Disposer Supreme and Judge of the Earth”
“I Could Not Do Without Thee”
“Drop, Drop, Slow Tears”
“Lord, Teach us to Pray Aright”
“Once to Every Man and Nation”
St. Thomas Day 2012 - Fr. Raftery’s Homily
St. Thomas Day 2012 - Fr. Buckley’s Homily
St. Thomas Day 2012 - Dr. Nieto’s Lecture
2011 Convocation - President McLean's Remarks
2011 Convocation - Abbot Hayes’ Address
Is the Presidency Too Strong?
Alumni Dinner Talk: Dr. Kaiser, “The Life of Learning”
“Faith of Our Fathers Taught of Old”
“O God of Earth and Altar”
“Eternal Ruler of the Ceaseless Round”
“Come Let Us Sing Our Cheerful Songs”
Convocation 2012 - Homily
Convocation 2012 - Bishop Cary
Convocation 2012 - McLean
David Dancing Before the Ark: The Liturgical Theology Implicit in 2nd Samuel
Judge Diarmuid O’Scannlain
“The Father’s House Eternal”
“Tallis’ Lamentation”
“The Martyr’s Crown,” by Leighton George Hayne (1836-88)
“Song 5,” by Orlando Gibbons
“All praise to Thee, my God, this night”
“Spirit of God, descend upon my heart”
“Why doth the Lord stand off so far?”
““Expend, o Lord””
“O Master, it is good to be”
Recessional: “Hail Holy Queen Enthroned Above”
Communion B: Nigra sum
Communion A: Jesu Dolcis Memoria
Offertory: “O Mary of Graces”
Agnus Dei
Jesu Rex Admirabilis
“He who would valiant be”
“Virgin-born, we bow before Thee”
“King of glory, King of peace”
“O quickly come, dread Judge of all”
“O God of Earth and Altar”
“Dear Lord and Father of Mankind”
“Let God Arise in Majesty”
“Holy God, We Offer Here”
“And Did Those Feet in Ancient Time”
Is the Presidency Too Strong?
Dr. Kaiser, “The Life of Learning”
The 2013 Senior Address
“Is Beauty a Distinct Transcendental According to St. Thomas Aquinas?”
“Are Non-Human Animals Capable of Appreciating the Fine Arts?”
“A Study of Film”
“The Purpose of Playing”
“An Aristotelian Account of Music’s Influence on the Passions”
Dr. Paul O’Reilly on Evangelization in an Atheistic Age
“What is Marriage?” by Rev. Joseph Illo
Pro-Life Walker Sophie Macik (’15) on “From the Median” Radio
Tutor Dr. John J. Goyette (’90) on Holy Family Radio, Part 2
Tutor Dr. John J. Goyette (’90) on Holy Family Radio, Part 1
Zachary Reynolds (’14) Reflects on the Walk for Life West Coast
Dean Brian Kelly Discusses St. Thomas on Radio Maria
Sarah Dufresne (’14) on the Upcoming Walk for Life West Coast
Oral Arguments from the College’s HHS Mandate Hearing
The 2014 Senior Address: "What is Truth?"
“St. Thomas Aquinas on Faith Seeking Understanding”
Br. Kenneth Cardwell, FSC, on the Plague of Frogs in Exodus
Dr. McLean Discusses the HHS Mandate on “From the Median” Radio
Handel’s Messiah, Part 3
Handel’s Messiah, Part 2
Handel’s Messiah, Part 1
Sarah Dufresne (’14) on Ave Maria Radio’s “Mast Appeal”
Audio: Dr. McLean on “Teaching Our Students to Think Critically in a World Filled with Sound Bites”
Audio: Dr. Kevin Kolbeck, “Don Quixote Discovers There is no Santa Claus”
Audio: Dr. Christopher A. Decaen, “Why the Burning Bush?”
Lecture Audio: Dr. Daniel J. Mahoney, “Lincoln and the Moral Foundations of Democracy”
Lecture Audio: Dr. Jeffrey Lehman on the Psalms in St. Augustine’s Confessions
Lecture Audio: Dr. Glenn Arbery, “Achilles and the Truth of Poetry”
Audio: Bishop Barron’s Homily for the Feast of the Chair of St. Peter
Audio: “Friendship of Man and Woman According to Aristotle and St. Thomas”
Audio: Dean Brian T. Kelly on EWTN’s “Celtic Connections”
Audio: “Aquinas on the Family and the Political Common Good”
Lecture Audio: Dr. Glen Coughlin, “Charity in St. Thomas”
Dr. Mark Blitz, “The Relevance of Plato: The Republic”
Fr. Buckley: Homily at the Mass for the Class of 2020
Ven. Fulton Sheen at Thomas Aquinas College's 1970 Kickoff Dinner
Dr. Ronald P. McArthur: Address at TAC Kickoff Dinner (1970)
“From Valley Forge to Appomattox: George Washington and the Formation of the American Nation”
Dr. Anthony Andres: Dialectic as a Way to the Principles
“A Response to the Scandal of Disagreement”
St. Thomas Day Homily, New England
"The Love of Learning and the Desire for God"
“Does the Father Want the Son to Die? Aquinas on Christ's Passion and the Trinity”
St. Thomas Day Homily, California Campus
“Augustine on Words, Signs, Thought, and Things in De Magistro: One of Many Ways to the Same Truth”
President McLean's Address at the California Thanksgiving Dinner, 2019
Associate Dean Kaiser's Address at the New England Thanksgiving Dinner, 2019
Dr. Michael Mack: Shakespeare’s Christian Ethics
Per Se Statements: Getting a Handle on Truth
Rev. David Vincent Meconi, S.J.: "One Christ Loving Himself"
Dr. Andrew Seeley: "Inspiring Heroes: The Gifts of the Holy Spirit in the Christian Life"
“Sing in Me, Muse”: Homer, Poetry, and the Founding of the West
Dr. Thomas J. Kaiser Theological Faith and Catholic Liberal Education
Dr. Joseph Hattrup: The Order of Astronomy and Music to Wisdom
President McLean: California Matriculation Address 2019
Rev. Joseph Illo: California Conovocation Homily
Rev. Joseph Illo: California Matriculation Remarks
President McLean's Matriculation Address, New England 2019
Bishop Rozanski's Matriculation Remarks (New England, 2019)
Address at the 2019 Alumni Association Dinner
“The High Adventure of the Spiritual Life”
Senior Address | Commencement 2019
Bishop Barron's Commencement Address: “Greatness of Soul”
Address at the President’s Dinner 2019
Whether it is Sinful to Desire Happiness: Martin Luther’s Critique of Aristotelianism
Sohrab Ahmari: "My Journey to the Catholic Faith"
“The Object of Poetry and its Truth”
“Socrates in Peoria: Lincoln’s Rhetoric
“Books VII-X of Euclid's Elements”
“Thomas on the Literalness of Christ and the Interpretation of Scripture”
Charity Forms all the Virtues — and Saves
St. Thomas and the Love of Sacred Scripture
“Science”: From Plato to Aristotle to Us
The Nativity Narrative from Handel's Messiah, as performed by the Thomas Aquinas College Choir
Cool vs. Kalos: The Role of True and False Beauty in the Moral Life
Dean Goyette’s Thanksgiving Address
Probability and Likelihood in the Dialectical Proposition (Tutor Talk)
Humility as the Guardian of All Virtues
Fall Concert: Music by J. S. Bach, Arcangelo Corelli, and W.A. Mozart
An Zeus Sit: What Has Athens To Do With Jerusalem?
“Let us be Heroes and Healers”
Matriculation Address 2018
Homily at Mass of the Holy Spirit, Convocation 2018
Scott Turicchi: “The Relevance of Thomas Aquinas College Today”
Dr. Peter Kreeft: “The Problem of Pain”
Bishop Morlino's Address at Commencement 2018
Senior Address by Suzanne Urbancic ('18)
Homily by the Most Rev. Robert C. Morlino at the 2018 Baccalaureate Mass
Dr. McLean: President's Dinner Remarks, 2018
Rev. Paul Raftery, O.P.; “St. Thomas Should Always be our Inspiration”
Dr. Steven Long: “St. Thomas Aquinas on the Natural Moral Law”
“Justice and Tragedy in Book 5 of Aristotle’s Nicomachean Ethics: A Shrine to the Graces”
Homily at the Funeral of Roy Rohter, by Rev. Rhone Lillard, F.S.S.P. (’00),
Eulogy for Roy Rohter, by Reev Rohter
“Joseph is a fruitful bough” (Gen 49:22): The Patriarch, His Seed, and the Messiah
Archbishop Viganò's Homily at Thomas Aquinas College
Homily, Mass for Victims of Thomas Fire and Floods
Rev. Miguel (Gaspar ’08) Batres, O.Praem.: “Everything that Happens, Good or Bad, God Uses”
Dr. Mario Enzler: “I Served a Saint”
“Thomas Aquinas College Has Much to be Grateful for …”
“After Nature: Why Metaphysics Depends upon Natural Philosophy”
"The Sabbath Precept in the Divine Economy"
“Francisco de Vitoria on the Law of Nations and the Natural Partnership of Different Peoples”
Dr. Steven Cain: “Friendship and Liberal Education”
Archbishop Coakley's Homily at the Mass of the Holy Spirit (Convocation 2017)
Archbishop Coakley's Matriculation Remarks (Convocation 2017)
Dr. McLean's Matriculation Address (Convocation 2017)
President Michael F. McLean's Interview on EWTN's "Call Me Catholic"
President Michael F. McLean on EWTN's "Call Me Catholic"
On Friendship and Charity: President McLean’s Remarks from the 2017 Summer Seminars
Pete LaFave ('13): Introduction of Shane O'Reilly at Alumni Dinner
Anthem’s Shane O’Reilly (’95) on Why He Hires Thomas Aquinas Graduates
The 2017 Commencement Address, by Mother Agnes Mary Donovan, SV
The 2017 Senior Address, by Joseph Rivera
The 2017 Baccalaureate Homily, by Rev. Paul Scalia
Ambassador Frank Shakespeare: Reagan, John Paul II, Gorbachev — and Our Lady of Fatima
President's Dinner Address 2017
“The Philosophical Underpinnings of Catholic Social Teaching: The Role of Nature and Natural Law”
Fr. Paul: St. Thomas Aquinas & the Call to Study
Dean Kelly’s Remarks at the Dedication of Founders Plaza
President McLean’s Remarks at the Dedication of Founders Plaza
Presidents' Day Lecture: “Freedom of Speech and Religion”
“Anachronism and the Historian”
Dr. Andrew Seeley: “The Moral Journey of the Philosophic Nature in Plato’s Republic”
“Be the Manifestation of His Light and Truth”
“God Will Do Great Things in You”