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November 7, 2026
Constructing a Renaissance Pope
Constructing a Renaissance Pope: Rhetoric, Ceremony, and Authority in the Age of Leo X (1513-1521) (Oxford University Press, 2026) by Dr. Elizabeth Mc…
November 4, 2026
The Phoenix Rises
Philippe Villeneuve has been chief architect of Notre Dame Cathedral since 2013. On the night of the shocking 2019 fire, he learned by phone that the …
November 1, 2026
Sacred Betrayal
When German occupiers rolled into Paris in June 1940, they arrived wary of the French Catholic Church. In a country where more than 80 percent of citi…
October 24, 2026
Constructing Christendom
In Constructing Christendom: Conquest and Diocese Formation in Medieval Iberia (U Pennsylvania Press, 2026), Dr. Thomas W. Barton examines how church …
October 10, 2026
Europe in the Eleventh Century
Eleventh-century Europe was diverse and fast-changing. Historians have often debated this change through two sets of competing arguments, one about th…
October 9, 2026
Tyrants and Traders
How Roman Britain ended is one of the most controversial questions in British history. Unique among former Roman citizens in Western Europe, the Brito…
October 8, 2026
Resurrection on Trial (with Peter D. Martino, esq.)
Peter Dominic Martino is a trial lawyer, law professor, former CEO, and former nuclear submarine officer. He serves as Assistant Professor at St. Thom…
October 7, 2026
The Supernatural Public Square
The old story in the academy was that as science and technology progressed, western society would grow more secular while the supernatural would disap…
October 5, 2026
Epiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations from a Life in Dialogue
Tune in to this discussion of Epiphanies of Nature and Grace: Twelve Meditations from a Life in Dialogue (Orbis Books, 2025) These moving and eloquent…
September 23, 2026
We Will Receive Justice
We Will Receive Justice: Native Histories of the Collapse of the California Missions (U Nebraska Press, 2026) by Dr. Lee M. Panich & Gustavo Flore…
September 17, 2026
What does the Pope have to teach us about AI?
When I heard that Leo XIV’s first encyclical, “Magnifica Humanitas,” was about “Safeguarding the Human Person in the Time of Artificial Intelligence,”…
September 10, 2026
Unseen Existences (with Brian Zahnd)
Brian Zahnd, a Christian leader and pastor of forty years and four-times pilgrim of the Camino de Santiago, completed this remarkable (and…
September 7, 2026
Inhabiting Silence
Monasteries are typically characterized by physical and symbolic limitations on access as they are usually known through written texts and accounts by…
August 30, 2026
Bloodshed and Blessing
Something deep within you recognizes it–the instinct that sacrifice matters, that something must be offered, that violence and beauty are woven togeth…
August 14, 2026
American Pogroms
Amidst heightened rhetoric and increasing polarization in the United States, American Pogroms: How Forgotten Massacres Shape America (Oxford Universit…
August 11, 2026
A Monument of Charity
St. Vincent's Hospital began with a simple, but radical mission: to care for all those in need regardless of race, creed, or financial means. For more…
August 4, 2026
Discovering the Latin Mass (with Amb. Archd. Eduard Habsburg)
The reason Eduard Habsburg, Archduke of Austria and formerly Hungarian Ambassador to the Vatican, has written a ‘travel guide’ to the Trad…
July 18, 2026
The Barberini Butchers
In 1644 four norcini or pork butchers were accused of killing not pigs, but seven of their fellow citizens, stripping the meat from the bones, the…
July 18, 2026
Flirting with Evil
It's a shadowy, ornate world of cover-ups and hidden motives. In Flirting with Evil: The Catholic Church in the Age of Total War and Globalisation (Ap…
July 14, 2026
The Fifth Crusade
In 1217, the crusader states were in a highly fragile condition. The Fourth Crusade had failed, and Jerusalem had not been recovered. The crusad…