In-depth discussions of all things Catholic - theology, art, history and more - featuring Thomas Mirus with a variety of notable guests. A production of CatholicCulture.org.
Latest episodes
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1 h 58
The Pledge Against AI Catholic Content and Text
Thomas Mirus and Eamonn Clark discuss a statement they co-authored for Catholic Culture called the Pledge Against AI Catholic Content and Text (PAACCT). The pledge has been signed…
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1 h 07
Russian Catholicism, Jazz, and AI Music w/ Timothy Flanders
Timothy Flanders rejoins the podcast for a freewheeling conversation in which he and Thomas interview each other. Timothy talks about his upcoming book on Catholicism in Russia, an…
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53 min
The Creator Spirit and the Soul of Art (conference talk)
Thomas Mirus's keynote address at the first annual conference of the Thomistic Artists Guild, on May 30 at the parish of St. Vitus in Los Angeles, CA. Video: https://www.youtube.co…
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1 h 19
Hierarchy and Woman: Aristotle vs. Aquinas, w/ Andrew Willard Jones
Groundbreaking Catholic political thinker Andrew Willard Jones joins the podcast to discuss a brilliant lecture he recently gave at the New Polity Conference. St. Thomas Aquinas is…
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58 min
The Coming Judgment - Ralph Martin
Ralph Martin returns to the podcast to discuss his new book, The Coming Judgment: Are We Ready? He and Thomas discuss the lack of a Scriptural worldview among many present-day Cath…
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1 h 11
Pope Leo XIII writes to America w/ Timothy Flanders
Timothy Flanders joins the podcast to discuss Pope Leo XIII's two letters addressed to the Catholic Church in America. Links Article summarizing Leo's writings on America https://w…
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Speaking in L.A.
On May 30, Thomas is giving the keynote address at the first annual conference of the Thomistic Artists Guild at the parish of St. Vitus in Los Angeles, CA. Free to attend! https:/…
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1 h 16
30 Years of the Vatican Film List – Catholic Cinema's Past and Future
Thomas Mirus, Nathan Douglas, and Andrew Petiprin gave this panel session at the 2024 Notre Dame Fall Conference, presented by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture. The them…
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41 min
Training the tongue for virtuous conversation, w/ Fr. Gregory Pine
Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., joins the podcast to talk about his new book Training the Tongue and Growing Beyond Sins of Speech. He answers Thomas's questions about small talk, cheekine…
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1 h 55
Leo XIII on the State's duties toward the Church, w/ Thomas Pink
This interview with Prof. Thomas Pink, originally published in 2020, is being republished as part of Thomas Mirus's ongoing series covering the major encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII.…
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6 min
New Lives of the Popes podcast
Lives of the Popes on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/lives-of-the-popes/id1885968422 Lives of the Popes on CatholicCulture.org: https://www.catholicculture.o…
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1 h 15
Tolkien's Darkest Tale w/ Aaron Irber
The darkest, and perhaps most underrated, story J.R.R. Tolkien ever wrote was the tale of Túrin Turambar, a great man of the First Age of Middle-Earth, whose life was ruined by the…
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29 min
Pope Leo XIII against Freemasonry
Pope Leo XIII's 1884 encyclical Humanum Genus is the Church's most comprehensive explanation of why, ever since 1738, she has forbidden Catholics to become Freemasons. Reading the…
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39 min
Seeking Beauty in the Old World w/ David Henrie
Actor, writer, and director David Henrie (Wizards of Waverly Place, How I Met Your Mother) joins the podcast to talk about his new EWTN travel series, Seeking Beauty with David Hen…
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1 h 16
Phil Lawler on four decades of independent Catholic journalism
Veteran Catholic journalist Phil Lawler recently retired as the editor of Catholic World News at CatholicCulture.org. Phil was the first lay editor of Boston's archdiocesan newspap…
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52 min
Resisting modernist "demolition troops": Ida Friederieke Görres
Ida Friederieke Görres is little-known to English-speaking Catholics (except perhaps for her biography of St. Therese of Lisieux), but she was a major voice of the orthodox Catholi…
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56 min
Leo XIII on what marriage owes to the Church
Thomas Mirus discusses Leo XIII's 1880 encyclical Arcanum, on Christian marriage. This was "the first formal and synoptic teaching on marriage since the Council of Trent" – a gap o…
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58 min
Edgelords, Profanity, & Taming the Tongue w/ Matthew Schmitz
For the past century or more, the left has put a high value on moral provocation, deliberately transgressing what they see as society's hypocritical or puritanical moral norms, whe…
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59 min
Christian Poetry Around the Globe w/ Burl Horniachek
To Heaven's Rim is a new anthology of great Christian poetry translated from non-English languages, from the first 18 centuries of the Faith. Editor Burl Horniachek joins to discus…
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1 h 28
The Most Dangerous Man in England: Newman and the Laity - Paul Shrimpton
Paul Shrimpton assisted in the process of making St. John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church. He joins the podcast to discuss his involvement in the process, and his new book from…