The Thomistic Institute exists to promote Catholic truth in our contemporary world by strengthening the intellectual formation of Christians at universities, in the Church, and in the wider public square. The thought of St. Thomas Aquinas, the Universal Doctor of the Church, is our touchstone. The Thomistic Institute Podcast features the lectures and talks from our conferences, campus chapters events, intellectual retreats, livestream events, and much more. Founded in 2009, the Thomistic Ins ...
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The Living Church Podcast explores ecumenical topics in theology, the arts, ethics, pastoral care, and spiritual growth — all to equip and encourage leaders in the Episcopal Church, Anglican Communion, and beyond. A ministry of the Living Church Institute.
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The Thomistic Institute Angelicum encourages the study of Thomas Aquinas and the Thomistic tradition as a living voice and inspiration for Catholic theology and philosophy. For more information about the Institute's programs or upcoming events please visit our website: https://angelicum.it/thomistic-institute/
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This is the course listening for Aquinas 101 - Course 2: Introduction to Thomistic Philosophy--the second of six courses that together make up the Aquinas 101 Course. Each podcast episode accompanies a course video and course reading. If you haven't enrolled already to receive semiweekly emails with all the materials, be sure to do so at http://www.aquinas101.com. Because it matters what you think!
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This is course listening for Aquinas 101 - Course 7: Virtue--an intensive look at the meaning of virtue for our lives. Each podcast episode accompanies a course video and course reading. If you haven't enrolled already to receive semiweekly emails with all the materials, be sure to do so at http://www.aquinas101.com. Because it matters what you think!
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This is the course listening for Aquinas 101 - Course 4: Principles of the Moral Life--the fourth of six courses that together make up the Aquinas 101 Course. Each podcast episode accompanies a course video and course reading. If you haven't enrolled already to receive semiweekly emails with all the materials, be sure to do so at http://www.aquinas101.com. Because it matters what you think!
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This is the course listening for Aquinas 101 - Course 6: Christ and the Sacraments--the sixth of six courses that together make up the Aquinas 101 Course. Each podcast episode accompanies a course video and course reading. If you haven't enrolled already to receive semiweekly emails with all the materials, be sure to do so at http://www.aquinas101.com. Because it matters what you think!
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This is the course listening for Aquinas 101 - Course 1: Why Aquinas?--the first of six courses that together make up the Aquinas 101 Course. Each podcast episode accompanies a course video and course reading. If you haven't enrolled already to receive semiweekly emails with all the materials, be sure to do so at http://www.aquinas101.com. Because it matters what you think!
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This is the course listening for Aquinas 101 - Course 5: Theological and Cardinal Virtues--the fifth of six courses that together make up the Aquinas 101 Course. Each podcast episode accompanies a course video and course reading. If you haven't enrolled already to receive semiweekly emails with all the materials, be sure to do so at http://www.aquinas101.com. Because it matters what you think!
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This is the course listening for Aquinas 101 - Course 3: God and Creation--the third of six courses that together make up the Aquinas 101 Course. Each podcast episode accompanies a course video and course reading. If you haven't enrolled already to receive semiweekly emails with all the materials, be sure to do so at http://www.aquinas101.com. Because it matters what you think!
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Has modern science made faith in God impossible? Does belief in miracles and traditional dogmas require us to deny scientific evidence, or abandon the scientific method? Does Schrodinger’s cat invalidate the principle of non-contradiction? The Catholic faith does not need to fear contemporary science. In fact, great believing minds have steered the scientific project until today, and still have much to say about the harmony of science and divine faith.
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What is Wisdom and Why Do We Need It? I Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy, O.P.
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54:06In this lecture, Fr. Irenaeus Dunlevy explains how wisdom—philosophical, theological, and mystical—transcends mere technical knowledge and, therefore, is able to orient man's action toward divine truth and human flourishing. This lecture was given on May 2nd, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at …
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The Happiness of Human Limitations I Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.
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47:28In this lecture, Fr. Gregory Pine explores how true happiness is discovered by accepting and embracing the limits and commitments inherent to human life, rather than escaping them. This lecture was given on February 15th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events…
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12 (Thomistic) Rules for Managing Appearances and Making Yourself Miserable I Sr. Anna Wray, O.P.
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52:54Sr. Anna Wray, redefines leadership as the practice of initiating genuine collaboration by rational wishing, deliberation, and action, exposing twelve common pitfalls that distort true agency and offering practical guidance for more authentic, freeing teamwork and spiritual growth. This lecture was given on June 26th, 2025, at Dominican House of St…
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The TI and Your Vocation I Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P.
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38:43Fr. Gregory Pine discusses how involvement with the Thomistic Institute can help college students integrate faith, virtue, and personal vocation by fostering self-possession, authentic freedom, and meaningful relationships within campus life. This lecture was given on June 27th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies. Secular campuses are being transf…
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Why Becoming More Philosophical is a Good Idea I Prof. Michael Gorman
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44:20Prof. Michael Gorman demonstrates why becoming more philosophical is essential for intellectual autonomy and deeper understanding, emphasizing the importance of fundamental questioning, sustained attention, and personal intellectual effort over dependence on artificial intelligence. This lecture was given on June 27th, 2025, at Dominican House of S…
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Today we're talking tea. Why? Well, we’re an Anglican podcast. Need we say more? Knowing how to share and make a good cup of tea translates around the globe. Whether it’s hospitality or work-life balance, tea has played a significant role in leadership, conversation, and parish life. Today we meet an amazing Christian woman who knows all about tea,…
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Technology In Our Relationship With God I Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
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1:00:33Fr. Anselm Ramelow examines how technology shapes and reflects our relationship with God, cautioning against both idolizing technology and seeking salvation through it, while affirming its proper role as an instrument serving man's chosen ends. This lecture was given on June 11th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies. Secular campuses are being tran…
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Insight, Idolatry, and AI I Prof. Jordan Wales
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53:25Prof. Jordan Wales examines how AI-aided decision making and bias in fields like medicine and criminal justice risk reducing human engagement to idolatrous control, urging that technology must serve authentic love and responsibility rather than replace genuine insight and ethical discernment. This lecture was given on June 11th, 2025, at Dominican …
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Predictive AI, Manipulation, and Human Freedom According to Aquinas I Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
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50:54Fr. Anselm Ramelow explores the tension between predictive artificial intelligence and human freedom, drawing on St. Thomas Aquinas to argue that while AI and social systems can influence and predict behavior to a certain degree, genuine free will and moral responsibility remain grounded in rational deliberation and virtue. This lecture was given o…
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AI and Interpersonal Relationships I Prof. Jordan Wales
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1:03:09Prof. Jordan Wales explores the ethical and spiritual implications of interpersonal relationships with artificial intelligence, emphasizing the dangers of mistaking AI’s simulated personhood for authentic human connection. This lecture was given on June 11th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies. Secular campuses are being transformed, but the stude…
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Fr. Anselm Ramelow examines the ethical challenges of artificial intelligence, highlighting both its beneficial uses and its risks to human dignity, personal relationships, moral growth, and authenticity. This lecture was given on June 10th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute…
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AI and Knowledge of the World I Prof. Jordan Wales
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56:56Prof. Jordan Wales explores how artificial intelligence and neural networks engage with meaning and knowledge, contrasting their statistical methods with the depth of human conceptual understanding rooted in philosophical and theological traditions. This lecture was given on June 10th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies. For more information on up…
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Mind, Matter, and Life: Can Machines be People, too? I Fr. Anselm Ramelow, O.P.
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55:22Fr. Anselm Ramelow examines whether machines can possess consciousness or personhood, arguing from philosophical and theological perspectives that artificial intelligence lacks the essential qualities of subjective experience, intentionality, and rational unity found in living beings. This lecture was given on June 9th, 2025, at Dominican House of …
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AI and the Human Person I Prof. Jordan Wales
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57:49Prof. Jordan Wales critically examines the relationship between artificial intelligence and human personhood through the lens of Christian theology, exploring how AI challenges traditional notions of intelligence, consciousness, and relationality. This lecture was given on June 9th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcom…
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The Neuroscience of Vice and Virtue I Dr. Paul LaPenna
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57:51Dr. Paul LaPenna delves into the neuroscience of vice and virtue, explaining how neuroplasticity, habit formation, and philosophical insights from figures like Aquinas inform our understanding of humility, magnanimity, pride, and vainglory in the development of moral character. This lecture was given on May 2nd, 2025, at Thomistic Institute in New …
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Origins of the Christian 'Just War' Tradition in Augustine's Anti-Manichean Works I Fr. Andrew Hofer, O.P.
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45:10Fr. Andrew Hofer explores the origins of the Christian just war tradition through Augustine’s anti-Manichean writings, examining the theological debates around violence, authority, and moral law within early Christianity. This lecture was given on June 11th, 2024, at Dominican House of Studies. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at t…
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Lightning Storms and Leadership with Moravians
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40:05Before there were Protestants, there were Moravians. In 1415, a Roman Catholic priest named Jan Hus was burned at the stake in Prague for promoting a vernacular liturgy, clergy marriage, and the elimination of indulgences. If he had been born just a few decades later, he might have found a friend in Martin Luther. But instead we know him as the for…
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Drone Warfare and Just War Theory: Aquinas on the Virtuous Use of Violence I Prof. Michael Krom
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41:33Prof. Michael Krom analyzes the ethics of drone warfare through the lens of Aquinas’s just war tradition and virtue ethics, addressing moral principles of discrimination, proportionality, and the indispensability of human judgment in the use of violent technology. This lecture was given on March 18th, 2025, at Virginia Military Institute. For more …
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Prof. Joseph Capizzi presents the just war account within the Catholic tradition, arguing that the use of force in war can be a moral act of peacemaking grounded in pursuit of the common good, and emphasizing the importance of authority, intention, cause, proportionality, and distinction between guilt and innocence. This lecture was given on April …
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Render Unto Caesar: Aquinas On the Relationship Between Religion and Politics I Prof. Michael Krom
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46:31Prof. Michael Krom explores Thomas Aquinas’s view on the relationship between religion and politics, discussing the distinction between obligations to political authority and to God, as reflected in the biblical command to "render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's." This lecture was given on November 7th, 2024, at University o…
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Anna Karenina and the Project of Literature I Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel, O.P.
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1:25:18Sr. Jane Dominic Laurel explores the project of literature from the classical to the modern era, highlighting how stories like Anna Karenina shape the moral imagination through themes of virtue, marriage, culture, and the perennial question of what it means to be human. This lecture was given on March 11th, 2025, at Trinity College Dublin. Secular …
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Getting to Know Tolkien and Lewis and Why It's Worth Your Time I Prof. Lee Oser
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52:53Prof. Lee Oser explores the intertwined lives, faith journeys, and literary legacies of J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, and the Inklings, highlighting their countercultural Christian imagination against modernist trends. This lecture was given on November 22nd, 2024, at College of William and Mary. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at t…
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Reading Sacred Scripture with St. Thomas Aquinas I Fr. Isaac Morales, O.P. and Prof. Michael Root
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37:38Fr. Isaac Morales and Prof. Michael Root explore how Thomas Aquinas’ biblical commentaries on Matthew and 1 Corinthians illuminate the beatific vision, resurrection, and the role of Scripture in shaping Christian life through literal and spiritual interpretation. This lecture was given on June 28th, 2025, at Dominican House of Studies. Secular camp…
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J.R.R. Tolkien's Detached Aesthetics I Dr. Rebekah Lamb
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45:43Dr. Rebekah Lamb explores J.R.R. Tolkien’s “detached aesthetics,” revealing how his Christian understanding of spiritual detachment shapes his writing, especially in "The Lord of the Rings," as a means of cultivating hope, wonder, and a rightly ordered love for the world. This lecture was given on January 30th, 2025, at University of Edinburgh. For…
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