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  • Episode 124: Prudence
    Sep 15 2025

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. The Tree of Life: An Exploration of Biblical Wisdom Literature by Fr. Roland E. Murphy OCarm
    2. De officiis (On the Duties of the Clergy) by St. Ambrose
    3. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
    4. Summa theologiae II-II, qq. 47-56 by St. Thomas Aquinas
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    23 Min.
  • Episode 123: Predestination - Interview with Taylor Patrick O'Neill
    Aug 23 2025

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. The Predestination of the Saints and On the Gift of Final Perseverance by St. Augustine
    2. Summa theologiae I, q. 23 by St. Thomas Aquinas
    3. On Divine Foreknowledge: Part IV of Concordia by Luis de Molina SJ
    4. Predestination by Réginald Garrigou-Lagrange OP
    5. Grace, Predestination, and the Permission of Sin: A Thomistic Analysis by Taylor Patrick O’Neill ...and some further recommendations...
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    36 Min.
  • Episode 122: Catholic Teaching on the Right to Migrate - Interview with Antônio Lemos
    Aug 16 2025

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. On the American Indians by Francisco de Vitoria OP
    2. Deliberation on the Cause of the Poor by Domingo de Soto OP
    3. Exsul Familia by Pius XII
    4. Erga migrantes caritas Christi by Pontifical Council For The Pastoral Care Of Migrants And Itinerant People
    5. Migrants and Refugees: Witnesses to Hope by Pope Francis, edited by United States Conference of Catholic Bishops

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    22 Min.
  • Episode 121: St. Anselm of Canterbury - Interview with Montague Brown
    Aug 9 2025

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. Monologion by St. Anselm
    2. Proslogion by St. Anselm
    3. Cur Deus homo (Why Did God Become Man?) by St. Anselm
    4. De veritate (
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    20 Min.
  • Episode 120: The Transfiguration of Our Lord Jesus Christ
    Aug 4 2025

    The books and resources discussed in this episode are:

    1. Jesus of Nazareth: From the Baptism in the Jordan to the Transfiguration by Benedict XVI
    2. Light on the Mountain: Greek Patristic and Byzantine Homilies on the Transfiguration of the Lord by Brian E. Daley SJ
    3. The Uncreated Light: An Iconographiocal Study of the Transfiguration In the Eastern Church by Solrunn Nes
    4. Light and Glory: The Transfiguration of Christ in Early Franciscan and Dominican Theology by Aaron Canty
    5. Thomas Tallis, Sacred Choral Works: Spem in alium The Sixteen, directed by Harry Christophers

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    25 Min.
  • Episode 119: Early Christianity and Urban Evangelisation - Interview with Mike Aquilina
    Jul 26 2025

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. Armenia: Art, Religion, and Trade in the Middle Ages edited by Helen C. Evans
    2. Cities of God: The Real Story of How Christianity Became an Urban Movement and Conquered Rome by Rodney Stark
    3. The First Urban Christians by Wayne Meeks
    4. The Christians as the Romans Saw Them by Robert L. Wilken
    5. Who Were the First Christians: Dismantling the Urban Thesis by Thomas A. Robinson

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    23 Min.
  • Episode 118: St. Bonaventure - Interview with Randall Smith
    Jul 19 2025

    The books discussed in this episode are:

    1. The Journey of the Soul into God (Itinerarium mentis in Deum) by St. Bonaventure
    2. Mystical Opuscula by St. Bonaventure, translated by Jose de Vinck
    3. Simply Bonaventure: An Introduction to His Life, Thought, and Writings by Ilia Delio OSF
    4. Crucified Love: Bonaventure's Mysticism of the Crucified Christ by Ilia Delio OSF
    5. The Philosophy of Saint Bonaventure by Étienne...
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    33 Min.
  • Episode 117: The Short Stories of Enid Dinnis - Interview with Julia Meszaros
    Jul 13 2025

    The book discussed in this episode is The Complete Short Stories: Volume 1 by Enid Dinnis.

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    18 Min.