Episodes

  • Implicit and Explicit Reason

    Implicit and Explicit Reason
    Feb 1 2025
    Implicit faith, or trust in God and the Church, forms the foundation, while explicit reasoning enriches and defends belief.
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    10 mins
  • Wilfulness, the Sin of Saul

    Wilfulness, the Sin of Saul
    Jan 19 2025
    Everywhere in our culture we are urged to be ourselves, to buck the system, to express our unique individuality, to break the glass ceiling, to stand up and stand out and stand apart. In obeying God, we will certainly do some of these things, and people around us may be offended. But there is no virtue in individual expression or in offending others, only in obedience to God.
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    5 mins
  • Human Responsibility, as Independent of Circumstances, Oxford Univ. Sermon, No. 8

    Human Responsibility, as Independent of Circumstances, Oxford Univ. Sermon, No. 8
    Jan 12 2025
    Newman teaches that God who is faithful does not tempt men. We are moral agents responsible for our actions. We should not try to rid ourselves of responsibility, transferring our guilt for wrong acts to other agents.
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    9 mins
  • Religious Joy

    Religious Joy
    Dec 27 2024
    With our Lord so close to us, residing in our souls, how can we be anything but joyful?
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    4 mins
  • Contest between Faith and Sight

    Contest between Faith and Sight
    Dec 14 2024
    Newman writes, “the world overcomes us, not merely by appealing to our reason, or by exciting our passions, but by imposing on our imagination.”
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    8 mins
  • Prayer of the Rosary, Newman’s Advice to Children

    Prayer of the Rosary, Newman’s Advice to Children
    Nov 23 2024
    St. John Henry Newman told boys that the rosary makes the Creed into a prayer.
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    5 mins
  • Tests on Development of Doctrine

    Tests on Development of Doctrine
    Nov 16 2024
    In a recent conference titled "Newman, Tradition and Law" at the Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law various speakers discussed Newman's ideas on development of doctrine.
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    4 mins
  • Oxford University Sermon 4: Usurpations of Reason

    Oxford University Sermon 4: Usurpations of Reason
    Nov 9 2024
    Newman examines the relation between reason and faith, and the usurpations or misuses of reason on the one hard and Church authority on the other.
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    6 mins