Faith & Reason Series: The False, Bad, and Ugly: Looking for Faith and Beauty in Movies and other Dark Mirrors
Professor Randy Boyagoda argues that the great interest, in recent years, in horror movies is indicative of a suppressed but enduring desire for faith and…
Faith & Reason Series: Building & Sustaining Supportive Networks & Relationships
https://youtu.be/d8gJLaqQW60 Building & maintaining supportive relationships & networks. It is both easier and more difficult than ever before to build and sustain friendships and community…
Faith & Reason Lecture: Contemplation In Community As Reason For Hope
Writers from St. Augustine of Hippo to Jane Austen have represented men and women together observing the natural world and thus being lifted into edifying…
Faith & Reason Lecture Series with Rod Dreher
Live Not By Lies – impending ‘Soft Totalitarianism’ in the west? Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn once noted that people often assume that their democratic government would never…
Identity in Catholic Social Teaching
There are few ideas more valued in modern culture than that of identity, claims to which are sacrosanct. Whether identity is conceived of as discovering…
The Way of Mercy: Catholics On The Journey Of Reconciliation
Mercy-First – Moving forward in Reconciliation: As Christ taught us and as Aquinas reiterates, “In itself, mercy takes precedence of all the virtues,” since through…
A Catholic Vision for Caregiving in the Age of Isolation
https://youtu.be/XvkXFJgji2Y Our contemporary culture is marked by a paradox. On the one hand, we have more collective wealth and potential for leisure than ever, advanced…
Subsidiarity In Action
https://youtu.be/uhA9WahHPos “It is clearly laid down that the paramount task assigned to government officials is that of recognizing, respecting, reconciling, protecting and promoting the rights…
A Catholic Vision of the Good Society
https://youtu.be/JJ6j3eNbybo In economics, culture, and politics, there are many competing methods of measuring the good of a society, or to what degree a society enables…
Creation through the Eyes of a Scientist: Experiencing God’s Creation
https://youtu.be/BCyVw-6fzSA How important is it that scientific theories are beautiful, simple and elegant? How important is the way in which scientists do their work, to…
God’s Revelation through Nature Scientific and Theological Perspectives
https://youtu.be/kwYldOofcuQ In this webinar, we asked – how do scientists understand theology and theologians understand science? How can we see the logos – the order, rationality,…
Caring For The Whole Person
https://youtu.be/nrXVKxcm054 A conversation with two Catholics trained in neuroscience and psychiatry. During the discussion, we explored health, the unity of body and soul, and the…