Voice actor James T. Majewski brings to life classic Catholic works, with a special focus on St. John Henry Newman and the Fathers of the Church. Over 100 recordings, including sermons, encyclicals, letters, poems, and full books like St. Augustine's De Doctrina Christiana, and St. Athanasius's Life of St. Anthony. A production of CatholicCulture.org.
Latest episodes
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27 min
St. John Henry Newman - The Oxford Sermons | 7. Contest between Faith and Sight
"The world overcomes us, not merely by appealing to our reason, or by exciting our passions, but by imposing on our imagination. So much do the systems of men swerve from the Truth…
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17 min
Pope St. Leo the Great - Sermon 95: On the Beatitudes
"The tranquility of grace smoothed away the sharpness of the law, while the spirit of adoption swept away the fear of servitude. His own sacred expressions, then, tell what is the…
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1 h 33
Soul of the Apostolate | Ep. 7 - Liturgical Life a Source of the Interior Life
"The Liturgy is a school of the presence of God; and teaches us to stay in the presence of our God as He was manifested to us in the Incarnation! Call it rather a school of the pre…
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50 min
Soul of the Apostolate | Ep. 6 - Interior Life Secures Deep and Lasting Results
"Even if I have long neglected it, Jesus calls me tenderly to mental prayer, and offers me special help in speaking this language of faith, hope, and love... Am I going to resist t…
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22 min
St. John Henry Newman - Mysteries in Religion: On the Ascension
"I will attempt to suggest to you on the present Festival some of the incentives to wonder and awe, humility, implicit faith, and adoration, supplied by the Ascension of Christ." A…
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37 min
St. John Henry Newman - The Oxford Sermons | 6. On Justice, as a Principle of Divine Governance
"If, then, the infinite benevolence of God wins our love, certainly His justice commands it; and were we able, as the Saints made perfect are able, to combine the notion of both in…
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13 min
The Dream of the Rood
"Come—I sing of a splendid dream, a mighty marvel, that came at midnight when the tongues of men are silent. A strange tree—most wondrous strange!— stretched forth branches in a bl…
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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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43 min
St. John Henry Newman - The Oxford Sermons | 5. Personal Influence, the Means of Propagating the Truth
"... we shall find it difficult to estimate the moral power which a single individual, trained to practice what he teaches, may acquire in his own circle, in the course of years. W…
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1 h 13
Soul of the Apostolate | Ep. 5 - Interior Life Secures Deep and Lasting Results
"No work takes deep root, or has real stability, or will perpetuate itself, unless the apostle has begotten the interior life in other souls. Naturally, he cannot do this unless he…
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1 h 25
Soul of the Apostolate | Ep. 4 - Action Made Fruitful by the Interior Life
"Am I really one of those who depend upon their mental prayer, their visits to the Blessed Sacrament, above all upon their Mass or their Communion, to put real moving power into th…
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34 min
St. John Henry Newman - The Oxford Sermons | 4. The Usurpations of Reason
"Human philosophy was beaten from its usurped province, but not by any counter-philosophy; and unlearned Faith, establishing itself by its own inherent strength, ruled the Reason a…
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37 min
Elizabeth Anscombe - War and Murder
"Two attitudes are possible: one, that the world is an absolute jungle and that the exercise of coercive power by rulers is only a manifestation of this; and the other, that it is…
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1 h 06
Christian Raab, OSB - In Search of the Masculine Genius
"When attention to the theological meaning of femininity is not accompanied by reflection on masculinity, men are left without a sense of the existential and sacramental significan…
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1 h 19
Soul of the Apostolate | Ep. 3 - Without Interior Life, Active Life Full of Danger
"These falls can be MOST CERTAINLY avoided when one knows how to use the precious balancing pole of the interior life. It is only the abandonment of this INFALLIBLE instrument that…