Phil Lawler on four decades of independent Catholic journalism
The Catholic Culture Podcast
Veteran Catholic journalist Phil Lawler recently retired as the editor of Catholic World News at CatholicCulture.org. Phil was the first lay editor of Boston's archdiocesan newspaper, The Pilot, but negative experiences trying to do real journalism while financially dependent on the Church hierarchy prompted him to move on to a career in independent Catholic journalism, with stints as editor of Crisis, Catholic World Report, and finally founding Catholic World News, which in 1995 was the first English-language Catholic news service operating on the internet. In the early 2000s, CWN merged with...
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Resisting modernist “demolition troops”: Ida Friederike Görres, w/ Jennifer Bryson
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Ida Friederieke Görres is little-known to English-speaking Catholics (except perhaps for her biography of St. Therese of Lisieux), but she was a major voice of the orthodox Catholic laity in mid-20th-century Germany, with Joseph Ratzinger giving her eulogy. Jennifer Bryson has translated Görres’s 1970 essay collection, Bread Grows in Winter, which is a response to the crisis in the Church immediately following Vatican II. Görres’s beautiful and profound writing gives a sense of what it was like to live in those troubling times, and how we (perhaps especially the laity) should respond to...
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Leo XIII on what marriage owes to the Church
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Thomas Mirus discusses Leo XIII's 1880 encyclical Arcanum, on Christian marriage. This was “the first formal and synoptic teaching on marriage since the Council of Trent” – a gap of four centuries. Arcanum is focused on what the Church has done to uplift and protect marriage throughout history. Leo argues at length that the state has no right to usurp the Church’s governance of marriage. LINKS Thomas's article on Arcanum Pope Leo XIII, Arcanum Audiobook of Pius XI's Casti Connubii DONATE to make this show possible! SIGN UP for Catholic Culture's newsletter:
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Edgelords, Profanity, & Taming the Tongue w/ Matthew Schmitz
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For the past century or more, the left has put a high value on moral provocation, deliberately transgressing what they see as society's hypocritical or puritanical moral norms, whether in religion, sexuality, or public decorum in general. Now the right, too, is getting in on the fun, performatively violating the speech norms held sacred by liberals - which is sometimes good, but sometimes itself violates traditional morality, not just leftist ideology. Matthew Schmitz joins the podcast to discuss his First Things article "Taming the Tongue", about the psychology of edginess, the problem with...
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Christian Poetry Around the Globe w/ Burl Horniachek
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To Heaven’s Rim is a new anthology of great Christian poetry translated from non-English languages, from the first 18 centuries of the Faith. Editor Burl Horniachek joins to discuss and read samples from poets from a variety of traditions, like St. Jacob of Serug (Syriac), St. Romanus the Melodist (Greek), an anonymous medieval Irish monk, the criminal Francois Villon (French), Michelangelo’s friend Vittoria Colonna (Italian), and the Chinese Jesuit/painter/poet Wu Li. To Heaven’s Rim: The Kingdom Poets Book of World Christian Poetry: Beginnings to 1800, in English Translation DONATE to...
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The Most Dangerous Man in England: Newman and the Laity - Paul Shrimpton
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Paul Shrimpton assisted in the process of making St. John Henry Newman a Doctor of the Church. He joins the podcast to discuss his involvement in the process, and his new book from Word on Fire Academic, "The Most Dangerous Man in England": Newman and the Laity. During his lifetime, Newman was a controversial figure within the Catholic Church in large part due to his views on the laity and his advocacy for their role in running Catholic schools. Shrimpton's book gives us a picture of Newman's view of the laity not only through his ideas, but through his practical endeavors in the world of...
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Should mothers work outside the home? w/ Margaret H. McCarthy
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Should mothers work outside the home? If you want an answer more solid than groundless internet opinion or conveniently vague appeals to personal discernment, this is the podcast for you. Margaret McCarthy joins the Catholic Culture Podcast to discuss her essay on why anti-sex-discrimination law’s treatment of the sexes as abstract interchangeable units hurts real women, real men, and real children (and real workplaces!). Then we dive into the neglected teachings of John Paul II and earlier popes on the objectively different relationships that men and women have to the home and to work...
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Triumph of the Heart director faced glorious trials making great Catholic art - w/ Anthony D'Ambrosio
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An episode from Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast, too good not to share for Catholic Culture Podcast listeners! Anthony D’Ambrosio directed, wrote, and produced the outstanding new film Triumph of the Heart about St. Maximilian Kolbe. In this inspiring interview, he discusses the difficult path he and his team charted to produce this independent film with a low budget, high artistic standards, and deep Catholic spirituality. Film is an expensive medium. Since a high budget requires one to calculate mainstream appeal in order to make one’s money back, a low budget can leave more room for...
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Highlights: America's medieval roots; Rock band with 3 Orthodox priests; Are heist movies moral?
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Highlight clips from two episodes of the Catholic Culture Podcast and one episode of Criteria: The Catholic Film Podcast – links to full episodes below. 83 The American Founding’s Medieval Roots – Robert Reilly 85 Three-Fifths of Our Band Got Ordained - Luxury Are Heist Films Moral? The Lavender Hill Mob SIGN UP for Catholic Culture's newsletter: newsletters DONATE to make this show possible!
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20 Years of Catholic Arts Revival - Dappled Things
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Dappled Things: The Quarterly of Ideas, Art, and Faith is celebrating its 20th anniversary. In its 20 years it has contributed to the beginning of a Catholic literary revival, nurturing the talents of many Catholic writers and visual artists. In recent years especially, many exciting new initiatives, presses, and magazines have branched off from Dappled Things. Bernardo Aparicio Garcia (founder and publisher) and Rhonda Ortiz (editor-in-chief) join the podcast to discuss Dappled Things’s mission and various topics to do with Catholic fiction. Links Dappled Things See the winners of the...
info_outlineFr. John Nepil, priest and mountaineer, joins the podcast to discuss his book To Heights and Unto Depths: Letters from the Colorado Trail. Topics discussed include:
- The modern view of "nature" vs. God's creation
- A morally responsible approach to risk-taking
- The modern origins of hiking as a secular activity
- "Wilderness" vs. "garden" - Catholic attitudes toward the wild places
To Heights and Unto Depths https://ignatius.com/to-heights-and-unto-depths-thudp/
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