• Episode 95: Theology of Religions - Interview with Fr. Sameer Advani LC
    Jan 31 2025

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. Lumen gentium and Nostra aetate by Second Vatican Council
    2. Dominus Iesus, Declaration on the Unicity and Salvific Universality of Jesus Christ and the Church by Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith
    3. Salvation Outside the Church: Tracing the History of the Catholic Response by Francis Sullivan SJ
    4. Christianity and...
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    33 mins
  • Episode 94: Pelagianism - Interview with Andrew Chronister
    Jan 24 2025

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. Answer to the Pelagians I by St. Augustine
    2. The Pelagian Controversy: An Introduction to the Enemies of Grace and the Conspiracy of Lost Souls by Stuart Squires
    3. Religion and Society in the Age of Saint Augustine by Peter Brown
    4. The Heart of Perfection: How the Saints Taught Me to Trade My Dream of Perfect for God's by Colleen Carroll Campbell
    5. Augustine in the Pelagian Controversy: Defending Church Unity by Andrew Chronister

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    32 mins
  • Episode 93: Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP - Interview with Matthew Minerd
    Jan 17 2025

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. Knowing the Love of God by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
    2. Three Conversions in the Spiritual Life by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
    3. Providence: God's Loving Care for Men and the Need for Confidence in Almighty God by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
    4. On Divine Revelation: The Teaching of the Catholic Faith (vol. 1) (
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    40 mins
  • Episode 92: Chinese Catholicism - Interview with Joshua R. Brown
    Jan 10 2025

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. The True Meaning of the Lord of Heaven by Matteo Ricci SJ
    2. Yang Tingyun, Confucian and Christian in Late Ming China: His Life and Thought by Nicholas Standaert
    3. Ways of Confucius and of Christ: From Prime Minister of China to Benedictine Monk by Dom Pierre-Célestin Lu
    4. Beyond East and West by John C.H. Wu
    5. Material Objects in Confucian and Aristotelian Metaphysics: The Inevitability of Hylomorphism by James Dominic Rooney OP

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    27 mins
  • Episode 91: Sacramental Theology - Interview with Fr. Uwe Michael Lang
    Jan 3 2025

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. The Sacramental Mystery by Fr. Paul Haffner
    2. Touched by Christ: The Sacramental Economy by Lawrence Feingold
    3. General Principles of Sacramental Theology by Roger Nutt
    4. Introduction to Sacramental Theology: Signs of Christ in the Flesh by Fr. José Granados
    5. Rite and Man: Natural Sacredness and Christian Liturgy by Fr. Louis Bouyer

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    24 mins
  • Episode 90: Fourth Week of Advent, 2024 - T.S. Eliot's Ariel Poems
    Dec 22 2024

    The recommended book in this episode is Ariel Poems by T.S. Eliot.

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    13 mins
  • Episode 89: Third Week of Advent (2024) - Saint-Saens's Christmas Oratorio
    Dec 16 2024

    This week recommendation is a CD: the Christmas Oratorio of Camille Saint-Saens (1835-1921).

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    10 mins
  • Episode 88: The Second Week of Advent, 2024
    Dec 9 2024

    The book discussed in this episode is: The Nativity: Themes in Art by Jeremy Wood.

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    15 mins