The Catholic Culture Podcast
Podcast Highlights: Music and morals, Tolkien and more
The Catholic Culture Podcast
A look back through the Catholic Culture Podcast archive. This episode contains highlights from:
Ep. 11 - Music and Morals - Basil Cole, O.P. https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-11-music-and-morals-fr-basil-cole-op/
Ep. 14 - Priest & Actor - George Drance, S.J. https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-14-priest-actor-george-drance-sj/
Ep. 15 - Online Education with the Tolkien Professor - Corey Olsen https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-15-online-education-with-tolkien-professor-corey-olsen/
Ep. 16 - Extremly Specific Middle-Earth Q&A with the Tolkien Professor - Corey Olsen https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-16-extremely-specific-middle-earth-qa-with-tolkien-professor-corey-olsen/
Ep. 17 - A Civics Lesson for Catholics - Bob Marshall https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/episode-17-civics-lesson-for-catholics-bob-marshall/
98 - An Anglo-Saxon Bard - Benjamin Bagby
Famous for his chanted performances of Beowulf in the original Old English, Benjamin Bagby is the closest thing you'll find today to an...
97 - The Hierarchy of Being in Natural Science - Daniel Toma
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/BatWN05pP1I Catholic geneticist Daniel Toma is the author of Vestige of Eden, Image of Eternity: Common...
96 - Hillbilly Thomists - Joseph Hagan, O.P.
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/4Uv7MvEHixg The Hillbilly Thomists, a bluegrass group entirely composed of Dominican friars, have just...
95 - Fighting Pervasive Religious Indifferentism - Ralph Martin
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/zkfJ-gSMdUg Today’s Catholic culture is marked by a profound and settled religious indifferentism....
94 - Understanding Postmodern "Social Justice" - Darel Paul
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/3Czyd0XSEso The alarmists were right: ideas that were only a few years ago complacently dismissed as the...
93 - An Introduction to Thomas Tallis - Kerry McCarthy
All music by Thomas Tallis used with permission of the artists and labels listed below. Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/i-oMO9qqzKA As a...
92 - Claudel's Cosmic Vision - Jonathan Geltner
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/Z5jrU3JYnv0 In his Five Great Odes, the great French Catholic poet Paul Claudel (1868-1955) offers a...
91 - The Temptation of St. Anthony - Elizabeth Lev
Watch this episode on YouTube: https://youtu.be/H1_78eLjaB8 The trials of St. Anthony the Great (251-356 AD), as described in St....
90 - Leo XIII on the State's Duties Toward the Church - Thomas Pink
Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, Humanis Dignitatae, begins by noting that its discussion of religious liberty “has to do...
89 - Mary and the Blues – Mike Aquilina
In addition to being the host of Catholic Culture’s Way of the Fathers podcast and the author of dozens of books on the early Church, Mike...
88 - On Columbus - Robert Royal
Watch on YouTube: https://youtu.be/8zPXC9KscGs The debate over Christopher Columbus’s legacy tends to go back and forth from cartoonish...
87 - The Jester Is Not The King - Jeremy McLellan
Watch on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ve9oqQpCrI Jeremy McLellan is a Catholic stand-up comedian who, strangely, is huge is...
86 - Karl Marx, "Monster of Ten Thousand Devils" - Paul Kengor
The Catholic Culture Podcast is now in video! Subscribe to our YouTube channel! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCBwqvyZyc2bpzI-kOYhwrkw...
85 - Three-Fifths of Our Band Got Ordained - Luxury
There are many strange stories in rock history. But Luxury is surely the only band in which three out of five members ended up becoming...
84 - Disobey Lockdown Now - Douglas Farrow, Andrew Busch
Catholic theologian Douglas Farrow and Lutheran political scholar Andrew Busch join the show to discuss their recent essays on the...
Ep. 83 - The American Founding's Medieval Roots - Robert Reilly
While the left continues crudely to paint America’s founding as a mere expression of white supremacy, certain thinkers on the right have...
Highlights from the Archive #3: The abuse crisis, acedia and more
This episode revisits some great moments from past Catholic Culture Podcast episodes: 18 - Acedia, the Forgotten Capital Sin - R.J. Snell...
Does A Man for All Seasons portray St. Thomas More accurately?
In this episode originally from Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast, Thomas asks attorney and scholar Louis Karlin whether Robert Bolt’s...
Taylor Marshall's Errors on Vatican II: Chris Plance and Richard DeClue Respond
Something a little different: this is the audio from a video on the DeClue's Views YouTube channel, which I am republishing here because I...
Ep. 82—A Habitual Counterculture—Brandon McGinley
The Catholic Church in America has largely lost its distinctive flavor and with it, its ability either to retain the faithful or to...
Ep. 81 - Love Like a Conflagration - Jane Greer
From 1981 to 1993, Jane Greer edited Plains Poetry Journal, publishing poets who were reviving the traditional tools of “rhyme, meter,...
Ep. 80 - Bring Out Your Dead - Scott Hahn
Modernity treats the human body pretty much as a machine for the production of pleasure. It is tuned up, fueled, and oiled for peak...
Ep. 79—Three Marks of Manhood, Pt. 2: Scepter, Crosier, Cross—G.C. Dilsaver
This is the second half of an interview with G.C. Dilsaver on his book The Three Marks of Manhood: How to be Priest, Prophet and King of...
Ep. 78 - Three Marks of Manhood, Pt. 1: Patriarchy Purified - G.C. Dilsaver
There is a great need for Catholics to acknowledge the timeless Biblical and Magisterial teachings about the headship of fathers over their...
Ep. 77 - Gene Wolfe, Catholic Sci-FI Legend - Sandra Miesel, Fr. Brendon Laroche
After much popular demand, Thomas pays tribute to legendary Catholic sci-fi writer Gene Wolfe, who passed away last year. Though not known...
98 - An Anglo-Saxon Bard - Benjamin Bagby
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97 - The Hierarchy of Being in Natural Science - Daniel Toma
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96 - Hillbilly Thomists - Joseph Hagan, O.P.
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