The Thomistic Institute

Justified by Grace, Works, or Faith? – Prof. Michael Root

25 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Michael Root argues that, in Catholic theology, we are saved wholly by the unmerited grace of Christ, and that this grace brings us into a Spiri...

Why the Catholic Church Has Priests – Fr. Dominic Langevin, O.P.

24 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Dominic Langevin defends the Catholic priesthood as a divinely willed, sacramental system of mediation in which ordained men, configured to Christ...

Aquinas on Predestination: The Main Issues – Fr. John Baptist Ku, O.P.

23 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. John Baptist Ku unpacks St. Thomas Aquinas’s doctrine of predestination, showing how God’s universal salvific will, efficacious grace, and rea...

Immorality and Immateriality – Prof. Thomas Osborne

20 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Thomas Osborne clarifies how, for Aristotle and St. Thomas Aquinas, the distinctive immateriality of human intellectual knowledge grounds a phil...

Beyond Work and Play: Aristotle on Friendship, Contemplation, and The Value of Human Activity – Prof. Marshall Bierson

19 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Marshall Bierson uses Aristotle’s distinction between work, play, and deeper “energetic” activities to argue that friendship and contempla...

St. Thomas Aquinas on Pleasure and the Good Life – Dr. Erik Dempsey

18 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Erik Dempsey explains how St. Thomas Aquinas sees pleasure as a natural and God-given part of the good life, one that both signals our true human ...

Suffering and the Communion of Saints – Prof. Timothy O'Connor

17 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Timothy O’Connor examines why an all-loving, omnipotent God permits horrendous suffering and explores how, within a Christian framework, such ...

Friendship: The Art of Striving and Thriving Together – Sr. Mary Madeline Todd, O.P.

16 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Sr. Mary Madeline Todd draws upon Aristotle, St. Thomas Aquinas, and friendship with Christ in order to show that sharing a common journey and life, t...

Burnout Society – Dr. R.J. Snell

13 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. R. J. Snell analyzes our “burnout society” as an achievement-obsessed culture that drives people to anxiety, depression, and exhaustion by dem...

From the Dictatorship of Relativism to the Tyranny of Pathos – Dr. Kevin Kambo

12 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Kevin Kambo argues that our culture has moved from a “dictatorship of relativism” to a “tyranny of pathos,” in which appeals to hurt feeli...

Are Right and Wrong Just a Matter of Opinion? – Prof. Steven Jensen

11 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Steven Jensen argues that right and wrong are not just a matter of opinion by defending moral realism over moral relativism, showing that moral ...

Is the Church Anti-Catholic? – Fr. Jacques-Benoît Rauscher, O.P.

10 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Jacques Benoit-Rauscher explores whether the Catholic Church is truly anti-capitalist by clarifying how Catholic social doctrine distinguishes leg...

Dante and Aquinas – Prof. George Corbett

09 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on January 20th, 2026, at Dominican House of Studies.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.or...

Catholic Scientists – Prof. Jonathan I. Lunine

06 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Jonathan I. Lunine presents his life as a planetary scientist and Catholic convert as a lived example of the harmony between faith and science, ...

Catholic Faith and Medicine: In Harmony or in Conflict? – Dr. Timothy P. Flanigan, MD

05 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Timothy P. Flanigan, M.D., presents Catholic faith and medicine as profoundly harmonious, showing how Christ’s person‑to‑person healing, the...

The War That Never Was: Science vs. Faith – Prof. Lawrence M. Principe

04 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Lawrence M. Principe argues that the supposed “war” between science and faith is largely a modern myth, constructed in the late 19th century...

The Making of Another Catholic Scientist – Prof. Jonathan Lunine

03 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Jonathan Lunine offers a personal and intellectual witness that one can be both a serious planetary scientist and a committed Catholic, describi...

Is Religion Really an Enemy of Science? – Prof. Carlos A. Casanova

02 Mar 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Carlos A. Casanova argues that religion—understood as a theological worldview affirming God as the rational creator—is not an enemy but an h...

Truth, Goodness, and Fantasy Literature – Fr. Philip-Neri Reese, O.P.

27 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Philip-Neri Reese argues that while grimdark fantasy (exemplified by George R. R. Martin) can be just as true artistically as Tolkien-style classi...

The Inklings: J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis – Prof. Lee Oser

26 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Lee Oser portrays the Inklings—and especially J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis—as a countercultural circle of Christian writers and scholars wh...

Christian Humanism and Shakespeare – Prof. Lee Oser

25 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Lee Oser argues that Christian humanism—the “radical middle” between secularism and sectarianism—offers the best key to Shakespeare’s ...

Goodness, Truth, Beauty: The World According to Dante – Prof. Joshua Hochschild

24 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Joshua Hochschild shows how Dante’s Paradiso offers a philosophically rich, Thomistic, and Neoplatonic vision of the cosmos in which goodness,...

Dante’s Passionate Intellect: The Divine Comedy’s Journey of Desire – Prof. George Corbett

23 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. George Corbett presents Dante’s Divine Comedy as a transformative “journey of desire” in which the passionate intellect—shaped by Virgil...

Edith Stein and Thomism – Dr. Robert McNamara

20 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on March 6th, 2025, at Farm Street Church.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-...

How to Avoid Being Unhappy: Gluttony and the Proper Place of Food and Alcohol in the Good Life – Prof. W. Scott Cleveland

19 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. W. Scott Cleveland explains how food and alcohol can either undermine or promote true happiness, arguing that gluttony is a disordered desire fo...

The Terrible Covenant of Sloth: Boredom and the Resistance of Joy – Dr. R.J. Snell

18 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. R.J. Snell argues that the real epidemic behind student anxiety, boredom, and frenzied achievement is not laziness but sloth—a refusal of respon...

Money, Pleasure, Influence and the Key to a Happy Life – Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

17 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Gregory Pine shows how money, pleasure, and influence all fail as ultimate goals and argues that true happiness comes from living in accord with o...

Do We Really Have a Bill of Rights? – Prof. Jerome Foss

16 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on November 4th, 2025, at Washington & Lee University.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitu...

John Henry Newman's Critique of Liberalism: Lessons from the Aristotelian Tradition – Prof. Joshua Hochschild

13 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on October 9th, 2025, at University of Michigan.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upc...

The Types of Miracles and the Possibilty of Demonic Miracles – Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.

11 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Anselm Ramelow explains how, in a Thomistic framework, miracles are graded by how they surpass nature and why only God can perform the highest-lev...

Fire on the Altar: A Lecture on St. Augustine – Prof. Chad Pecknold

10 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Chad Pecknold shows how St. Augustine’s Confessions should be read as a Catholic, sacramental account of conversion in which the “altar of t...

Dominican Mystics of the Rhineland – Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.

09 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy introduces the medieval Dominican mystics of the Rhineland and, in dialogue with Aquinas and Pseudo-Dionysius, shows how their of...

Catholic Women in the Arts & Sciences: An Underappreciated Tradition – Dr. Bronwen McShea

06 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Bronwen McShea uncovers the rich but often forgotten history of Catholic women in the arts and sciences, showing how figures from late antiquity t...

The Natural Law Ethics of Killing – Prof. Christopher Tollefsen

05 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Christopher Tollefsen argues from a Thomistic natural law perspective that it is always morally wrong to intend the death of an innocent human b...

Catholic Ethics in the Modern World – Prof. Marshall Bierson

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on January 23rd, 2026, at Washington & Lee University.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitu...

The Scopes Trial & the Myth of Warfare between Science & Religion – Prof. Kenneth Kemp

03 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Kenneth Kemp reexamines the Scopes “Monkey Trial” to show that it has been mythologized into evidence of a supposed war between science and ...

My Life Exploring the Solar System and Worlds Beyond – Prof. Jonathan I. Lunine

02 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Jonathan I. Lunine recounts his life as a planetary scientist, tracing how early inspirations from Carl Sagan and the space race led to his work...

Creation vs. Creationism – University of America Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

30 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on October 20th, 2025, at The Catholic University of America.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinst...

Vocation of a Catholic Scientist – Prof. Karin Öberg

29 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on January 15th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.o...

What Contemporary Culture Needs to Learn from Thomas Aquinas – Prof. Michael Dauphinais

28 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Michael Dauphinais explains what contemporary culture needs to learn from Thomas Aquinas, arguing for a metaphysics of communion in which God, ...

Flirting with Happiness: Aquinas on the Good Life – Fr. Alan O'Sullivan, O.P.

27 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Alan O’Sullivan unpacks Aquinas on the good life, explaining why wealth, power, fame, and pleasure cannot be our ultimate happiness and how true...

Does God Exist? How Do I Know? The Five Ways of Aquinas – Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.

26 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on May 8th, 2025, at North Dakota State University.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/...

John Paul II on the Value of Human Life and Euthanasia – Prof. Christopher Tollefsen

23 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on September 23rd, 2025, at University of South Carolina.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitut...

St. Thomas Aquinas on the Beatitudes – Fr. Anton ten Klooster

22 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on November 3rd, 2025, at Oxford University.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcomin...

Engaging Politics as a Catholic – Fr. Jan Bentz

21 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Jan Bentz explores what it means to engage politics as a Catholic, calling believers to critical thinking rooted in truth, a both‑and logic that...

Understanding Anscombe’s Absolutism – Prof. Marshall Bierson

20 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Marshall Bierson unpacks Elizabeth Anscombe’s moral absolutism, arguing that questions like “Why is it worse to kill one innocent person tha...

Icons and Idols: An Augustinian Reflection on Race, Racism, and Antiracism – Prof. Kevin Kambo

19 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Kevin Kambo reflects on race, racism, and antiracism through Augustine, showing how modern racial categories operate as idolatrous myths born of...

Augustine and Aquinas Against Skepticism – Prof. Chad Pecknold

16 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Chad Pecknold explains how Augustine and Aquinas argue against skepticism, defending metaphysical realism and the mind’s capacity to know trut...

The Issue of Free Will: Are We the Authors of Our Actions? – Prof. Steven Jensen

15 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Steven Jensen explores the issue of free will and moral responsibility, arguing that we are genuine authors of our actions only if our choices a...

Rewiring the Brain – Dr. William Hurlbut

14 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. William Hurlbut examines how natural neuroplasticity, education, lifestyle, and new neurotechnologies are “rewiring the brain,” highlighting b...

If ChatGPT Exists, Why Study? – Fr. Chris Gault, O.P.

13 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Chris Gault explores whether AI like ChatGPT should change how or why we study, showing that while machines can accelerate information processing,...

Can a Machine Understand?: ChatGPT, Knowledge, and the Nature of Understanding – Prof. Tomás Bogardus

12 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on November 17th, 2025, at University of Georgia.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/up...

Does God Care About Suffering? – Dr. Christopher Mooney

09 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Christopher Mooney asks "whether God really cares about our suffering" and uses biblical narratives, the significance of Christ’s tears, and phi...

Is Suffering Good? – Sr. Elinor Gardner, O.P.

08 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Sr. Elinor Gardner asks whether suffering can be called “good” by engaging Stoic thinkers like Seneca, modern echoes in Nietzsche, and biblical wi...

The God of Love and the Reality of Evil and Suffering – Prof. Chris Baglow

07 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Chris Baglow explores how the God of love can allow evil and suffering by showing that a world created for freedom and love—not as a determini...

Christ Fully Reveals Man to Himself: What Christ's Humanity Says about What It Means to Be Human – Prof. Paul Gondreau

06 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Paul Gondreau explores how Christ’s concrete, fully human life uniquely “fully reveals man to himself,” showing that every human person an...

Creation as Relation: An Existential Consideration – Dr. Robert McNamara

05 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Robert McNamara explores how creation is not a distant event but our very act of existing here and now, so that each person’s being is itself a ...

Do We Make Morality, or Discover It? An Examination of the Basis of Natural Law – Dr. Erik Dempsey

01 Jan 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Erik Dempsey explores whether we make morality or discover it by unpacking Aquinas’s three natural inclinations and arguing that they ground obj...

Seeking Friendship in the Virtual Age – Prof. John Cuddeback

31 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. John Cuddeback reflects on why many students feel relationally unsatisfied in a hyper-connected world and shows how reclaiming embodied presence...

Let the Best One Win: Reflections of Friendship and Competition – Prof. Michael Krom

30 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Michael Krom explores how athletic rivalry, when rooted in justice and love of the good, can deepen genuine friendship, build virtue, and lead t...

Friendship and the Digital Age: A Thomistic Reflection on Human Connection – Prof. Joshua Hochschild

29 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Joshua Hochschild argues that digital culture reshapes friendship and attention through Curiositas and acedia, offering a path of renewal by cul...

Why Get Married? The Catholic View of the Meaning and Purpose of Marriage – Prof. Michael Dauphinais

26 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Michael Dauphinais explains marriage as a lifelong covenant of self-giving love between a man and a woman that images Christ’s union with the ...

Why Did God Become Man? The Absolute Primacy of Christ According to Blessed Duns Scotus – Prof. Thomas Ward

25 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Thomas Ward explains Scotus’s bold claim that the Incarnation is not primarily a response to human sin, but the centerpiece of God’s eternal...

Participation in the Divine Nature: Aquinas and the Catholic Vision of Theosis – Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

24 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Gregory Pine explains that, according to Aquinas, Christians are called to true divinization or theosis: by grace and the sacraments they really c...

What Difference Did Christianity Make? Why the Ancient Greeks, Romans, and Irish Converted – Fr. Terence Crotty, O.P.

23 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Terence Crotty argues that Christianity spread so rapidly because it uniquely answered the human search for truth and happiness while transforming...

The Disappearing Man: Body, Soul, and the Question of Who We Are – Dr. Paul LaPenna

22 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Paul LaPenna uses the dramatic case of a man in a coma from autoimmune brain disease to show that personal identity endures despite severe loss of...

Rebutting Necessitarian Universalism: Three Thomistic Arguments – Prof. Mats Wahlberg

19 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Mats Wahlberg argues that “necessitarian universalism”—the claim that hell is metaphysically impossible and that God must save all rationa...

Reprobation and Permission of Sin – Prof. Thomas Osborne

18 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Thomas Osborne explains reprobation and the permission of sin in Thomas Aquinas as the asymmetrical counterpart to predestination, where God pos...

Aquinas's Interpretation of Predestination in Scripture – Fr. Piotr Roszak

17 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Piotr Roszak shows how Thomas Aquinas interprets predestination through a deeply biblical lens, reading predestination as God’s merciful, Christ...

Why is Thomism so Fixated on Predestination? – Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P.

16 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Cajetan Cuddy explains that Thomism is “fixated” on predestination because this doctrine lies at the speculative and practical center of the T...

What is predestination? – Fr. Dominic Legge, O.P.

15 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Dominic Legge explains predestination as a profoundly hopeful Catholic doctrine rooted in God’s eternal, loving plan to give grace and lead rati...

Does Nature Make Laws? – Prof. Raymond Hain

12 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on September 8th, 2025, at United States Military Academy.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitu...

'The greatest of all God's works': Justification in Catholic Theology – Prof. Matthew Thomas

11 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Matthew Thomas explains why justification—God’s transformative act of making sinners righteous in Christ by grace through faith and incorpor...

Can Divine Providence Be Known Through Natural Reason? The Classics' Response – Prof. Carlos A. Casanova

10 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Carlos A. Casanova argues that a properly understood Aristotelian–Platonic metaphysics of form, final causality, and nature allows human reaso...

Living Mary's Mediation through De Montfort’s 'Total Consecration' – Fr. John Langlois, O.P.

09 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. John Langlois presents Saint Louis de Montfort’s Marian spirituality of “total consecration” as the surest, easiest, and most secure way to ...

The History of Devotion to Mary: She Who Leads Us to Jesus – Fr. John Langlois, O.P.

08 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. John Langlois traces how Marian doctrine and devotion—from Scripture and the early Fathers through medieval councils, liturgy, and architecture...

Is Free Will an Illusion? – Prof. Joshua Hochschild

05 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

This lecture was given on October 10th, 2025, at St. Joseph’s Church in Greenwich Village.For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomi...

Happiness and Virtue: Can it be Good for You to Be Bad? – Prof. Thomas Osborne

04 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Thomas Osborne argues that, on an Aristotelian–Thomistic account of human nature, it is never truly good for you to be bad, because vice damag...

Virtue and the Meaningful Life – Dr. David McPherson

03 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. David McPherson argues that human beings are “meaning-seeking animals” and that an adequate neo-Aristotelian ethics must see the virtues as co...

St. Thomas Aquinas: His Life, Wisdom, and Relevance Today – Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.

02 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy presents Aquinas as a medieval theologian whose love of Scripture, clear metaphysics of happiness, integrated view of body and so...

Why We Need the Saints – Prof. Adam Eitel

01 Dec 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Adam Eitel argues that God’s divine pedagogy makes the examples of the saints indispensable for our salvation, since their concrete, imperfect...

Does Marketing Make Us Less Human? – Dr. John-Paul Heil

28 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. John-Paul Heil critiques modern marketing’s implicit anthropology, explaining that marketing driven by manipulation, simulation, and quantity un...

A Breastplate of Stillness and a Book of Thanksgiving: The Fruits of Patience in the Face of Boredom – Prof. Carl Vennerstrom

27 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Carl Vennerstrom explores how perseverance, prayer, ordered work, and thanksgiving transform boredom and the temptation to acedia into opportuni...

Theology of the Body – Prof. Paige Hochschild

26 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Paige Hochschild analyzes John Paul II’s Theology of the Body, contrasting the Catholic vision of bodily integration, purity, and vocation wit...

Identity vs. Nature: Aquinas on Who Creates Me – Prof. Jacob Wood

25 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Jacob Wood contrasts Aquinas’s account of nature, cause, and purpose with modern identity theory, showing that human nature—created and orde...

The Way of Beauty: The Church and the Arts – Fr. Innocent Smith, O.P.

24 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Innocent Smith explores how beauty in art, architecture, and liturgy forms the soul, elevates worship, and points to God, showing that the Church’...

Mariology 101: Part 1 – Fr. James Brent, O.P.

21 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. James Brent presents a systematic introduction to Mariology, demonstrating that all Marian titles and attributes find their source and unity in he...

Finding Meaning Amidst the Chaos Or: Why Get Out of Bed in the Morning? – Dr. Robert McNamara

20 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Robert McNamara explores the problem of meaninglessness and chaos in contemporary life, showing how wonder, intellectual attention, and the cultiv...

A Feeble Plant in the Breeze: Personal and Social Forms of Acedia – Prof. Carl Vennerstrom

19 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Carl Vennerstrom explores personal and social forms of acedia, tracing its origins from ancient monasticism to contemporary life and illuminatin...

Your Eucharistic Identity – Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

18 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Gregory Pine explores the Eucharist as the foundation of Catholic identity, showing how sacramental worship unites the past, present, and future o...

Aquinas and Newman on the Pursuit of Wisdom and Happiness – Prof. Jennifer Frey

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Jennifer Frey’s lecture compares Aquinas and Newman on the pursuit of wisdom and happiness, showing how a true liberal education cultivates ph...

Minimum Wage vs. Just Wage: A Thomistic Clarification of Catholic Social Teaching – Dr. Michael Krom

14 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Michael Krom uses Catholic social teaching and Thomistic ethics to explain the difference between minimum wage and just wage, emphasizing that jus...

Would St. Thomas Baptize and Extraterrestrial? – Dr. Edmund Lazzari

13 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Edmund Lazzari uses Thomistic philosophy and sacramental theology to analyze whether extraterrestrial intelligences could be baptized, exploring q...

George Lemaitre: The Catholic Priest Who Proposed the Big Bang Theory – Prof. Jonathan Lunine

12 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Jonathan Lunine tells the story of Georges Lemaître—the Catholic priest and physicist who proposed the Big Bang theory—showing how his pion...

Does AI Have a Soul? – Dr. Edmund Lazzari

11 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. Edmund Lazzari’s lecture critically assesses claims that artificial intelligence systems might possess souls, arguing from Thomistic philosophy ...

Neuroscience and the Soul – Dr. William Hurlbut

10 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Dr. William Hurlbut explores the profound questions raised by neuroscience, biotechnology, and artificial intelligence, emphasizing that the human sou...

Astrology: Why Did Medieval Philosophers Study It? – Fr. Ambrose Little, O.P.

07 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Ambrose Little’s lecture explains why medieval philosophers studied astrology as part of natural science, showing how its connection to astronom...

Theology True Science of God or Poetical Musing – Prof. Christopher Malloy

06 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Christopher Malloy argues that theology, properly understood as a classical science, involves intellectual habits of certain knowledge through c...

How to Know God? Philosophical Wisdom and Divine Revelation – Prof. Michael Dauphinais

05 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Prof. Michael Dauphinais explores how Thomas Aquinas integrates philosophical wisdom and divine revelation, showing that genuine knowledge of God aris...

Nicene Trinity, Chalcedonian Christology: Understanding Christ through Councils and Conflicts – Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.

04 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Fr. Gregory Pine explains Nicene Trinitarian theology and Chalcedonian Christology through key councils and controversies, showing how Christ’s inca...