Catholicisme

This lecture was delivered at Rutgers University on September 9, 2021.

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About the speaker:
Joshua Hochschild is the Monsignor Robert R. Kline Professor of Philosophy at Mount St. Mary’s University, where he also served six years as the inaugural Dean of the College of Liberal Arts. His primary research is in medieval logic, metaphysics, and ethics, with broad interest in liberal education and the continuing relevance of the Catholic intellectual tradition. He is the author of The Semantics of Analogy: Rereading Cajetan’s De Nominum Analogia (2010), translator of Claude Panaccio’s Mental Language: From Plato to William of Ockham (2017), and co-author of A Mind at Peace: Reclaiming an Ordered Soul in the Age of Distraction (2017). His writing has appeared in First Things, Commonweal, Modern Age and the Wall Street Journal. For 2020-21 he’s been elected to serve as President of the American Catholic Philosophical Association.

Aristotle’s Four Causes and the Possibility of Science | Prof. Joshua Hochschild

This talk was delivered on November 4, 2021 at Cornell University.

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About the Speaker:
Fr. Andrew Jordan Schmidt, OP, grew up in North Dakota and received a Bachelor's degree in English and East Asian Studies from St. John's University in Collegeville, MN in May 2002.  After serving as a Peace Corps volunteer in rural China, he entered the seminary, studying for the diocese of Bismarck at Kenrick-Glennon Seminary in St. Louis, MO from 2004-2006.  He joined the St. Joseph province of the Order of Preachers (Dominicans) in the summer of 2006, and moved to Washington, DC to study at the Pontifical Faculty Immaculate Conception where he earned an STB and MDiv in 2009.  In the Fall of 2009, he entered the STL program in Biblical Theology at The Catholic University of America.  Upon completing his Licentiate degree in 2012, he was ordained a priest at St. Dominic's parish in Washington, DC after which he was assigned as associate pastor to St. Mary's parish in New Haven, CT.  In the Fall of 2013, he returned to Washington to pursue a doctorate in Biblical Studies at The Catholic University of America. During his time at The Catholic University of America, Fr. Jordan has served as a teaching assistant and teaching fellow in addition to taking on various posts in the STRS student association.

The Bible as Revealed Truth and its Relationship To Rational Thought | Fr. Jordan Schmidt, O.P.

This lecture was given on March 3, 2022 at the University of Alabama, Birmingham.

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About the speaker:
Gregory T. Doolan received his B.A. in political theory from Georgetown University in 1993 and his Ph.D. in philosophy from The Catholic University of America in 2003. He taught philosophy at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C. from 2004–05 and joined the faculty of the School of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America in 2005. Dr. Doolan’s research interest is in the area of Aquinas’s metaphysics; in recent years, his focus has been on Aquinas’s account of the Aristotelian categories of being. A native of Philadelphia, Dr. Doolan currently lives in Washington, D.C. with his wife and three children.

Why Should We Believe God Exists? | Prof. Gregory Doolan

This lecture was given on March 16, 2022 at Duke University.

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About the speaker:
Fr. Jonah Teller, O.P., is a friar of the Dominican Province of Saint Joseph. He completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Dallas in 2011, entered the Order of Preachers in 2013, and was ordained a priest in May of 2020. He holds a licentiate in sacred theology from the Pontifical Faculty of the Immaculate Conception at the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, D.C.

St. Thomas Aquinas and Josef Pieper on Creation | Fr. Jonah Teller, O.P.

Joe and Grettelyn talk to Mike Creavey of The Gracious Guest about appreciation for creation and how to bring Chesterton into students' lives. For more from Mike, visit

Chesterton and Wonder at God's Creation, with Mike Creavey

Nick is joined by broadcaster and journalist Cornelius Lysaght to discuss the day's events, adding to the continuation of racing and Bryony Frost stories in light of further reporting overnight. Nick is also joined in this edition by two riders - Davy Russell and David Maxwell - who are both intent on making imminent returns to race riding after serious neck injuries in the autumn. Russell speaks warmly about the opportunities left open for him by trainer Gordon Elliott, while Maxwell pays a heartfelt tribute to his friend and driver Mohammed Sidat, who died of Covid-19 last week. In our weekly Weatherbys Bloodstock segement, Nick catches up with Ollie Tait, proprietor of Twin Hills Stud in New South Wales in Australia.

Ep 137 - Taking Responsibility

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