Dec 30, 2022
“We are now entering on a fresh stage of our life's journey; we know well how it will end, and we see where we shall stop in the evening, though we do not see the road.”
Ring in the New Year with this New Year’s Day sermon by St. John Henry Newman, first released on this podcast in January 2020.
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Dec 9, 2022
Originally delivered at the Pro Civitate Dei summer school in La Londe-les-Maures, France on June 12, 2022, The Politics of Hell is an in-depth examination of St. Thomas Aquinas' doctrine concerning the social order among angels and demons—and a commentary on the human governmental arrangements to which each most...
Nov 22, 2022
But bright Cecilia rais'd the wonder high'r;When to her organ, vocal breath was giv'n,An angel heard, and straight appear'dMistaking earth for Heav'n.
"A Song for St. Cecilia's Day" full text: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44185/a-song-for-st-cecilias-day-1687
"Alexander's Feast;...
Nov 10, 2022
“Matrimony was not instituted or restored by man but by God; not by man were the laws made to strengthen and confirm and elevate it but by God, the Author of nature, and by Christ Our Lord by Whom nature was redeemed...”
Casti Connubii, or “of chaste wedlock”, was a papal encyclical promulgated by Pope Pius XI...
Nov 1, 2022
"If you drop any science out of the circle of knowledge, you cannot keep its place vacant for it; that science is forgotten; the other sciences close up, or, in other words, they exceed their proper bounds, and intrude where they have no right... no science whatever, however comprehensive it may be, but will fall...