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The Lumen Christi Institute for Catholic Thought was founded by Catholic scholars at the University of Chicago in 1997 to bring the light of Christ and the Catholic intellectual and spiritual tradition to the secular academy and the general public. On this station we make available our many lectures and programs, as well as interviews with visiting scholars.
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AI, The Future of Work, and Pope Leo’s First Encyclical with Joseph Vukov and Michael Murphy
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May 29, 2026 |
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What Does Virtue Have to Do with the Law?
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May 22, 2026 |
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The Turn to Tradition in American Law and Culture
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May 22, 2026 |
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Developing a Catholic Social Vision for the Modern World with David Cloutier
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May 04, 2026 |
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Wisdom and the Tranquility of Order: Reflections on Popes Leo XIII and XIV with Scott Roniger
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Apr 29, 2026 |
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The Birth of Ossian with Martin Shaw
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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Mythopoetics and Faerie Stories: Theory and Practice of Mythmaking with Martin Shaw
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Mythmaking and the True Myth - A Conversation with Martin Shaw
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Feb 23, 2026 |
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Augustine the Teacher with Erika Kidd
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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Season Finale - Special Episode
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Dec 05, 2025 |
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Why Do We Need Saints and Miracles? with Carlos Eire
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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A History of the Impossible: Carlos Eire on They Flew
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Romans (Episode 3/3)
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Dec 03, 2025 |
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Romans (Episode 2/3)
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Dec 01, 2025 |
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Romans (Episode 1/3)
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Nov 28, 2025 |
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Matthew (Episode 5/5)
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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Matthew (Episode 4/5)
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Nov 24, 2025 |
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Our Hearts Are Restless: Augustine’s Confessions and Modern Anxiety with Scott Moringiello
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Matthew (Episode 3/5)
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Nov 21, 2025 |
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Matthew (Episode 2/5)
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Nov 19, 2025 |
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Matthew (Episode 1/5)
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Nov 17, 2025 |
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Jeremiah (Episode 1/1)
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Nov 14, 2025 |
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Isaiah (Episode 2/2)
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Nov 12, 2025 |
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Isaiah (Episode 1/2)
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Nov 10, 2025 |
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Amos and Hosea (Episode 1/1)
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Nov 07, 2025 |
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Ezekial and Daniel (Episode 1/1)
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Nov 05, 2025 |
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Elijah (Episode 1/1)
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Nov 03, 2025 |
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Judges (Episode 7/7)
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Oct 31, 2025 |
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Judges (Episode 6/7)
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Oct 29, 2025 |
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A Spiritual Manual for the Technological Age: A Discussion of Paul Kingsnorth's Against the Machine
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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Judges (Episode 5/7)
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Oct 27, 2025 |
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Judges (Episode 4/7)
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Oct 24, 2025 |
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Judges (Episode 3/7)
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Oct 22, 2025 |
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Judges (Episode 2/7)
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Oct 20, 2025 |
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Judges (Episode 1/7)
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Oct 17, 2025 |
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Genesis (Episode 2/2)
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Oct 15, 2025 |
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Genesis (Episode 1/2)
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Oct 13, 2025 |
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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 6/6)
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Oct 10, 2025 |
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“In the One, we are One”: Christian Unity and the City of God with Jared Ortiz
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 5/6)
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Oct 08, 2025 |
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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 4/6)
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Oct 06, 2025 |
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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 3/6)
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Oct 03, 2025 |
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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 2/6)
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Oct 01, 2025 |
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BXVI- Jesus of Nazareth (Episode 1/6)
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Sep 29, 2025 |
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What Can We Say About God? An Interview with David Novak on God-Talk
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Christianity, Culture, and Sport: From Play to Virtue
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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A Catholic Vision of Art: Beauty – The Highway to God
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Jun 21, 2025 |
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Catholicism: A Global History from the French Revolution to Pope Francis
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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America's Real Sister Act: The Hidden History of Black Catholic Nuns in the United States
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Care of Souls in Inquisition Spain
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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The Story of Catholic Education: Renewing Our Schools, Renewing Our Culture
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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Ecumenical Panel on For the Life of the World: Toward a Social Ethos of the Orthodox Church
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May 27, 2025 |
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A Marion Moment in Catholic Thought: A Conversation with Jean-Luc Marion and Ken Woodward
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May 27, 2025 |
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Pro and Con: Does Faith Ignore Reason?
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May 27, 2025 |
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Rethinking Economic Inequality: a Theological Perspective
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May 27, 2025 |
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Do We Know More than the Apostles? Or, Do Doctrines Develop?
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May 27, 2025 |
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The Bond of All Creation: Renaissance Humanism and the Incarnate Word
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May 27, 2025 |
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What is Catholic Culture?
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May 27, 2025 |
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On the Dignity of Society: Catholic Social Teaching and Natural Law
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May 27, 2025 |
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Is the Universe Made for Life? Anthropic Coincidences and Multiverse Ideas
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May 20, 2025 |
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Romano Guardini on Technology and Liturgy
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May 20, 2025 |
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Catholic Women in the Arts and Sciences
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May 20, 2025 |
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Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice - Session 1
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May 20, 2025 |
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Quandaries of Biotechnology: Theory and Practice - Session 2
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May 20, 2025 |
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Populations, Persons, and Precision Medicine: The Ethics of Emerging Information Technologies
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May 20, 2025 |
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Can We Be Good On Our Own? Ancient Pagans and Modern Scientists on Thomistic Moral Virtue
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May 20, 2025 |
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AI Ethics, Human Flourishing, and Trust in Health Care
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May 20, 2025 |
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The Boldness of Belief and Timidity of Technology
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May 20, 2025 |
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Technology, Liturgy, and the Work of Human Hands
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May 20, 2025 |
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A Conversation on Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of the Intellectual Life
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May 13, 2025 |
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Negotiating Tragedy and the Tragic: Discursive, Performative, and Interpretive Strategies in Late Ancient Christian Literature
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May 13, 2025 |
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The Catholic Imagination in Modern American Poetry
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May 13, 2025 |
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Aristotle's Great-Souled Man in Jane Austen, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, and Saint Augustine
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May 13, 2025 |
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Dante the Theologian: Ken Woodward Interviews Denys Turner
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May 13, 2025 |
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Dante and a Poet's Journey in Hope
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May 13, 2025 |
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Literary Traditions and the Pursuit of Truth: A Culture of Humility
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May 13, 2025 |
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Michelangelo's Women: Feminine Genius in the Frescoes of the Sistine Chapel
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May 06, 2025 |
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Singing the Sacred: Music and the Holy in Ancient Christianity
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May 06, 2025 |
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Symposium on The Light that Binds: A Study in Thomas Aquinas's Metaphysics of Natural Law
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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The Future of Natural Law
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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How Can We Flourish?
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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An Unknown Constellation: Hannah Arendt Reads Étienne Gilson and Jacques Maritain
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Is Free Will an Illusion? St. Thomas Aquinas and Human Action
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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What is Ideology? A Conversation with Mark Shiffman and James Matthew Wilson
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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An Inquiry into the Value of Work: A Discussion of Matt Crawford’s Shop Class as Soulcraft
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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The One Thing Necessary: Monasticism and Philosophy
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Virtue, Moral Formation, and the University
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Conscience And Human Rights In Thomas Aquinas And Some Predecessors
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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Polarization, Social Cohesion, and the Economy
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Apr 27, 2025 |
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Saint Among the Skyscrapers: The American Afterlife of Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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A Life in Service of the Truth: The Legacy of Fr. Paul Mankowski, SJ
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Walker Percy and the Pursuit of Happiness in Apocalyptic Times
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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Gregor Mendel at his Bicentennial: Highlights of his Life and Legacy
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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A Philosophy of Work, Leisure, and Catholic Culture
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Apr 21, 2025 |
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Gender, the Body, and Holiness in the Middle Ages
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Mar 24, 2025 |
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The Human Person and Biotechnology: Artificial Intelligence and its Limitations
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Mar 17, 2025 |
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The Vocation of a Theologian: The Legacy of Pope Benedict XVI
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Sep 19, 2023 |
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Race and Justice In America
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Aug 05, 2021 |
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René Girard, Conversion, and the Present Media Moment
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Jun 04, 2021 |
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The Crisis of Mysticism: Quietism in 17th Century Spain, Italy, and France
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May 24, 2021 |
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United by Their Loves: Deciphering Augustine’s Understanding of a People
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May 24, 2021 |
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Beauty and Justice in the City: the Restoration of St. Adalbert's, in Pilsen
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May 24, 2021 |
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Claudia Herrera and Jose Matos Auffant - Latino Youth and Evangelization
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May 24, 2021 |
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Was Something Lost? Thomas Aquinas, Intellectual Disability, & the 16th c. Spanish Colonial Debates
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May 12, 2021 |
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David Lantigua - Fratelli Tutti and the Latino Social Teaching of Pope Francis
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May 12, 2021 |
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Hosffman Ospino - Teaching Catholic Doctrine en Español
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May 05, 2021 |
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The Origins of Mass Incarceration: The Courts and the 1960s Criminal Procedure Revolution?
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May 05, 2021 |
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Elizabeth Lev - A Good Man Is Hard to Find: St. Joseph in Art
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Fr. Thomas Esposito, O.Cist - How to Be a Corinthian
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Apr 08, 2021 |
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Fragile Democracy: Technocratic Takeover and Popular Renewal
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Apr 06, 2021 |
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Fr. Mark Rotsaert, SJ - Spirituality and the Saints
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Mar 13, 2021 |
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Learning Poverty and Education Pluralism: The Global Catholic Education Report 2021
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Patrick Geary - Pledges of the Saints: The Cult of Relics in the Catholic Tradition
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Yves Simon on Natural Law
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Fr. John O'Malley, SJ - Humanism as an Educational Ideal
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Feb 23, 2021 |
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Beyond Test Scores: Measuring the Contributions of Catholic Schools
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Jan 20, 2021 |
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Partners in Charity: St. Louise de Marillac and St. Vincent de Paul
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Jan 13, 2021 |
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Is there a Catholic Vote? An Evangelical Vote? Religion, Polls, and Presidential Elections
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Dec 22, 2020 |
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John L. Allen Jr. - COVID-19 and the Worldwide Church
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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A Catholic Life in the Secular University: A Conversation with George Dennis O'Brien
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Dec 18, 2020 |
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Food Insecurity in the U.S.: Insights from Catholic Social Thought and Economics
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Sam Conedera, SJ - Friends in Heaven: Edmund Campion and the Martyrs of England & Wales
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Thinking Inside and Outside the University: Zena Hitz on the Inner Life
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Dec 09, 2020 |
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Metropolitan Borys Gudziak - Quo Vadis: The Direction of Eastern Catholic Theology
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Nov 25, 2020 |
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John O'Malley, SJ - Venerating the Saints: An Ancient Tradition Actual Today
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Nov 24, 2020 |
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Fratelli Tutti: Engaging Pope Francis's New Encyclical on Social Friendship
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Stephen Barr - Fearful Symmetry: Cosmic Order and a Divine Creator
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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The United Nations at 75: Catholic Perspectives
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Integral Bioethics in the Anthropocene
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Nov 20, 2020 |
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Erin Walsh - Expanding the Archive: Syriac Literature and the Study of Early Christianity Today
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Oct 13, 2020 |
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Alexander Laschuk - Eastern Churches, Latin Territories
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Oct 01, 2020 |
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Robin Darling Young - Christ the Lover of Mankind
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Sep 23, 2020 |
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Andrew Hayes - A Theology of Wonder: An Introduction to the Poetry of Ephrem the Syrian
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Sep 15, 2020 |
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Daniel Galadza - Introduction to Liturgical Mystagogy
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Sep 10, 2020 |
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Peter Casarella - Passage to Modernity: Renaissance Christianity Today
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Torrance Kirby - Richard Hooker’s Sapiential Theology: Reformed Platonism?
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Douglas Hedley - Reason and Beauty in Cambridge Platonism
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Pondering Hiroshima
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Aug 07, 2020 |
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Valentina Zaffino - Giordano Bruno and the Poetry of the Cosmos
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Aug 06, 2020 |
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Richard Oosterhoff - Measure and Mathematics in Renaissance Philosophy
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Jul 17, 2020 |
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Tamara Albertini - Women Humanists in the Renaissance: Paradise and Free Speech in Moderata Fonte
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Jul 09, 2020 |
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Denis Robichaud - Marsilio Ficino and the Philosophy of Plato
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Jul 06, 2020 |
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What Evolution Does and Does Not Tell Us about Humans
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Jun 26, 2020 |
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Dante as Poet and Philosopher
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Race, Justice, and Catholicism
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Jun 24, 2020 |
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Christians in Times of Catastrophe: Augustine's "City of God"
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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David Albertson - Nicholas of Cusa
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Jun 10, 2020 |
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Various - Lessons After the Lockdown: Public Health, Economics, and the Common Good
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Jun 05, 2020 |
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Bernard McGinn - Meister Eckhart
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Jun 01, 2020 |
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Kevin Hughes - Saint Bonaventure
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May 23, 2020 |
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Bernard McGinn and Willemien Otten - Apocalypticism in Times of Crisis
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May 22, 2020 |
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Katie Bugyis - The Wisdom of Enclosure in Julian of Norwich's Showings
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May 19, 2020 |
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Willemien Otten - Peter Abelard and Bernard of Clairvaux
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May 19, 2020 |
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Various - The Economic Costs of the Pandemic: Catholic Social Teaching and Economics in Dialogue
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May 06, 2020 |
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Disease and the Problem of Evil
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Apr 30, 2020 |
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Brian Carl - Thomas Aquinas on Ways to Know God
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Aaron Canty - Anselm of Canterbury on the Rationality of Faith
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Cardinal Francis George, the American Contribution to Catholic Social Thought, & Our Current Moment
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Apr 24, 2020 |
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Michel Zink - The Contemplation of God in Medieval Literature
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Apr 14, 2020 |
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Regina M. Schwartz - Love Your Enemies: Retribution and Forgiveness
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Gregory the Great on Reading Scripture for Wisdom
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Rémi Brague and Jean-Luc Marion - Does Christianity Need Metaphysics?
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Apr 06, 2020 |
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John Cavadini - The Grand Design: An Augustinian Reply to Stephen Hawking
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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John Haught - Science, Faith, and the New Atheism
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Stephen M. Barr - Evolution and the Catholic Faith
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Apr 01, 2020 |
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Nicanor Austriaco, OP - Genome Editing with CRISPR: Dignity and Other Faith-Based Considerations
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Science and Religion: The Myth of Conflict with Stephen M. Barr
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Stephen Meredith - The Modern Scientist as a Palimpsest of Three Fausts
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Mar 31, 2020 |
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Peter Harrison - Religious Origins of Modern Science?
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Mar 30, 2020 |
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Flannery O'Connor and the Vision of Grace
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Mar 27, 2020 |
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Gustavo Gutierrez - On Óscar Romero and Pope Francis
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Becoming Human in Light of the Gospel of John
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Various - The Cross: History, Art, and Controversy
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Jun 19, 2019 |
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Andrew Prevot - The Hope of Exodus in Black Theology
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May 20, 2019 |
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Various - The Legacy of Fr. Theodore Hesburgh, CSC
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May 08, 2019 |
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Various - Achieving the Goals of "Oeconomicae et Pecuniariae Quaestiones"
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May 07, 2019 |
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Michael Lee - The Life and Legacy of Saint Óscar Romero
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May 06, 2019 |
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Various - Reconsidering the Values of Finance
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Apr 30, 2019 |
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Various - Financial Markets and Moral Inquiry
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Various - Catholicism and Democracy
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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Various - Symposium On Science And Wonder
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Apr 01, 2019 |
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Michael Murphy - The Catholic Imagination
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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Rev. John Kartje - Creation And Cosmology
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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Meghan Sullivan - Faith And Reason
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Mar 08, 2019 |
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Various - Action Versus Contemplation: Why An Ancient Debate Still Matters
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Mar 01, 2019 |
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Various - Sacred Music in Context and Practice
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Feb 18, 2019 |
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John Inazu and Eboo Patel - Pluralism In A Polarized Age
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Luigi Zingales - The Vatican And Finance
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Feb 08, 2019 |
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Jean-Luc Marion - What Do We Mean When We Speak Of Revelation?
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Jan 25, 2019 |
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Daniels, Hittinger, and Sweeney, OP - The Catholic Church In Crisis
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Dec 05, 2018 |
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Scott J. Freidheim - The Collapse of Lehman Brothers: An Inside Story
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Dec 04, 2018 |
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Fr. Michael Sweeney, OP - How Catholics Can Realize the Royal Priesthood of the Laity
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Dec 03, 2018 |
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Émilie Tardivel-Schick - Christian Citizenship: A Paradox?
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Nov 28, 2018 |
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Émilie Tardivel-Schick - Interview
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Nov 16, 2018 |
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Jonathan Lunine - Georges Lemaître: His Science, Faith, and Why “Hubble’s Law” Ought to be Renamed
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Nov 13, 2018 |
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O'Malley, Hittinger, Mueller - Vatican I: Loss and Gain With Papal Governance of the Catholic Church
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Nov 06, 2018 |
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Gerard Bradley - Interview
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Oct 23, 2018 |
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Joseph Singer - Judging as Judgment
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Oct 10, 2018 |
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Rachel Fulton Brown - Interview
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Aug 21, 2018 |
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Fr. Kevin Flannery, SJ - Interview
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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Bernie McGinn - Interview
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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Fr. Andrew Liaugminas - Interview
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Jul 26, 2018 |
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Donald Bungum - Interview
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Jul 19, 2018 |
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What Is Freedom? Some Reflections From Augustine
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Jun 12, 2018 |
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Russell Hittinger - Interview
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May 29, 2018 |
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Ulrich Lehner - Catholic Reform: the Council of Trent and the Catholic Enlightenment
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May 23, 2018 |
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Paul Mariani - A Final Seriousness: Wallace Stevens' Late Poems Revisited
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May 23, 2018 |
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David O'Connor - Plato's Bedroom: Desire, Union, and Procreation
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May 23, 2018 |
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Trinity Lutheran and the Future of Public Funding for Religious Entities
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May 23, 2018 |
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Body, Eros, And Eucharist
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May 23, 2018 |
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Elizabeth Anscombe on Living the Truth
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May 21, 2018 |
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Jennifer Frey - Interview
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May 17, 2018 |
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Rémi Brague - Interview
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May 07, 2018 |
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Athens, Jerusalem, and Alexandria: Christian Wisdom Between the Bible and Greek Philosophy
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May 07, 2018 |
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Religion and Religious Expression in the Academy and Public Life
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May 04, 2018 |
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Science And Theology Of Habitable Worlds Around Other Stars
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May 04, 2018 |
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The State Of Religion In America
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May 04, 2018 |
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Thick And Dazzling Darkness
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May 03, 2018 |
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Jim Stoner - The Dignity of Politics
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May 03, 2018 |
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Fr. Stephen Fields, SJ - Interview
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May 02, 2018 |
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The Future of Liberalism: Relativism Confronts St. Augustine
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May 02, 2018 |
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Perseverance in the Parish? Religious Attitudes From a Black Catholic Perspective with Darren Davis
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Apr 23, 2018 |
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The Moral Theology of Aquinas: Is it for Individuals?
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Fr. Wojciech Giertych, OP - Interview
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Why Liberalism Failed with Patrick Deenen
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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Patrick Deneen - Interview
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Apr 20, 2018 |
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The Witness of Contemplative Women in the Heart of the Church
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Silence, Prayer, and Contemplation in a Secular Society
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Jean Bethke Elshtain - Reason & Regensburg: Pope Benedict and the Dialogue of Cultures
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Hans Joas - Does Secularization Lead To Moral Decline?
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Against Nostalgia: Catholicism, History, and Modernity
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Denys Turner - Faith, Reason, and the Eucharist
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Apr 18, 2018 |
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Jean-Luc Marion - Is There A Christian Philosophy?
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Early Modern Catholic Social Teaching and World Order with David Lantigua
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Apr 17, 2018 |
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Anders Cardinal Arborelius - Interview
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Apr 17, 2018 |