With our new President introducing executive orders bound up with Critical Theory and identity politics, and withdrawing the proclamation on religious freedom, what does the future hold for Christians?
Episode 76 - Grace and Danger #2: Politics, Culture and Art Today
Episode 75 Fr Peter Stravinskas Talks About Pontifex University's Unique M.Ed. in Catholic School Administration
Here is a great interview. Dr Sebastian Mahfood, of Holy Apostles College and Seminary and a teacher on the new Masters of Education in Catholic School Administration talks to the Program Director, Fr Peter Stravinskas.
Fr Stravinskas is also the President of the Catholic Education Foundation.
Episode 74 - Grace and Danger #1 - a New Season of Podcasts on the Way of Beauty
Episode 73 - Screenplay writer, Caleb Brown, on his new full-length feature film, Blue Ridge
Episode 72 - Hold Fast! The Harmonization of Nutrition and Spirituality in Traditional Christian Fasting and Feasting
Episode 71 - Mike Hennessey on the Holiness of Fr Vincent McNabb and his Influence on Belloc
Pontifex University Press publishing another collection of essays by Fr. Vincent McNabb. This volume is called The Wayside: A Priest’s Gleanings. Mike Hennessey, a lover of the writings of McNabb wrote the foreword to the book. He discusses how this collection of early essays reveals his great charity and holiness. Mike is the chair of the Belloc Society and he gives us fascinating insights into the influence that McNabb had on Hilaire Belloc.
The essays we refer to specifically from the list below are: The Riches of Ritual, Jane Seedcombe Woolweaver, and An Innocent (which is about the alcoholic prisoner).
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Episode 70 - Bill Donaghy of the Theology of the Body Institute
Episode 69 - Paul Jernberg: How Can a Composer be Creative and Follow Divine Inspiration?
I’m with composer Paul Jernberg once again. Our starting point is the following excerpt from Musicam Sacram and the following statement:
Musicians will enter on this new work with the desire to continue that tradition which has furnished the Church, in her divine worship, with a truly abundant heritage. Let them examine the works of the past, their types and characteristics, but let them also pay careful attention to the new laws and requirements of the liturgy, so that "new forms may in some way grow organically from forms that already exist, and the new work will form a new part in the musical heritage of the Church, not unworthy of its past.
How does a composer balance the new with the traditional, proscribed forms with invention? Paul gives us his approach.
Episode 68 - Charlie Deist - Join us in a March for Eternal Life, and a new call for Chivalry
This is a march in which we meditate upon the spiritual meaning of marching itself. It is exercise that is natural to us - walking - that is ordered to our ultimate end. I see the 50 miles as a symbol of Pentecost, the 50-day after Easter on which the Holy Spirit descended upon us. It is a call for conversion and Christian chivalry.
Episode 67 - Paul Jernberg on How We Discern the Sacred in Music
Episode 66 - William Deatherage of Clarifying Catholicism Inteviews Me
William Deatherage is a recent graduate of Notre Dame is on fire for the Faith. He interviews me for ClarifyingCatholicism.org a new hub featuring a team of new and dynamic writers and bloggers!
Episode 65 - Creating community for a post-COVID 19 society now, with Charlie Diest
Episode 64 - Mgr John Myler: John Paul II's Great Influence on the Rise of Marian Devotion After It Almost Died Out
Episode 63 - Keith and Iwona Major creating evangelical Catholic house groups in LA
Episode 62 - Simone Rizkallah part 2 - Personal Vocation and the Call to be Feminine
Episode 61 - Simone Rizkallah from endowgroups.org on the genius of women
The genius of women, as described by Pius XII and Pope St John Paul II a phrase that describes those qualities that women distinctly offer the world for our greater good and the greater glory of God. This is not, as some may characterize it, a push to confine women to the home or the convent (unless they choose such life), rather it is encouraging a fuller use by women of the gifts that God gives to them for the good of all.
