Category: Podcast Episodes

In this month of November, dedicated to the holy souls in Purgatory, our hosts, Amanda and Fr. Jon Tveit, are joined by Fr. Michael Barone, for a conversation about death, the importance of the funeral rite, cremation, and how today’s culture seeks to keep distant our own mortality. Fr. Barone serves as a Cemetery Chaplain in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey.

Bibliography:

• Ad resurgendum cum Christo (2016)
• Piam et constantem (1963)

Header Image: Henryk Pillati, Funeral of the Five Victims of the Manifestation of 1861 in Warsaw (1865)

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Our Editor, Fr. Jon Tveit, is joined on the podcast by Michael Thomas—the motivating force behind the new Catholic Land Movement—for a conversation about the Catholic Land Movement’s inspiration, purpose, and how puts that into practice.

You may follow Michael Thomas on (the website formerly known as) Twitter, @MichaelTG09.

Bibliography

• Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P., The Church and the Land (1926)
• To learn more about the Catholic Land Movement, visit: https://catholiclandmovement.info/

Header Image: Eastman Johnson, Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket (1876)

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For the feast of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined on the podcast by James Monti, author and historian, for a conversation on the life and example of St. Thomas More.

Bibliography

• James Monti, The King’s Good Servant but God’s First : The Life and Writings of Saint Thomas More (Ignatius Press, 1998)
• St. Thomas More, The Sadness of Christ [De tristitia Christi] (1997)
• St. Thomas More, Four Last Things / A Supplication of Souls / A Dialogue on Conscience (2002)
• St. Thomas More, A Response to Luther [Reponsio ad Lutheram] – Book 1 and Book 2
• St. Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer – Books 1-4 and Books 5-9

Header Image: A follower of Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Thomas More (1600s)

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As May—the month of Our Lady—comes to a close, Matthew Walther, editor of The Lamp Magazine, joins Amanda and Fr. Jon Tveit for a conversation on St. John Henry Newman and Our Blessed Mother.

Bibliography

• St. John Henry Newman, Mary: The Virgin Mary in the life and writings of John Henry Newman (ed. Philip Boyce)

Header Image: Sir John Everett Millais, John Henry Newman (1881)

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Urban Hannon returns to the podcast to join Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda for a conversation about the virtue of religion—what it is theologically, and what it demands practically of us and our society.

Bibliography

• St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II Q.80-81
• Fr. Franck Quoex, Liturgical Theology in Thomas Aquinas (transl. Zachary Thomas)
• R. Jared Staudt, The Primacy of God: The Virtue of Religion in Catholic Theology
• The Josias Podcast Episode XIX: Justice

Header Image: Jules Breton, The Blessing of the wheat in Artois (1857)

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Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined by Deacon Harrison Garlick and Chris Ruckdeschel for a discussion on education, avoiding the pitfalls of the “Great Books,” and recovering the classical liberal arts.

Bibliography

• Alcuin Institute for Catholic Culture
• Septem Artes Liberales
• Ascend – The Great Books Podcast
• Christopher Ruckdeschel, On the Nature of the Classical Liberal Arts
• Dcn. Harrison Garlick, “Avoiding the Unreal: How to Read the Great Books Well”
• Jeffrey Bond, “On the Modes of Teaching” (Part I; Part II; Part III) (The Josias)

Header Image: Francesco Pesellino, Seven Liberal Arts (c. 1450)

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