New Books in Catholic Studies
Interviews with scholars of Catholicism about their new books
- Update frequency
- every 4 days
- Average duration
- 56 minutes
- Episodes
- 505
- Years Active
- 2012 - 2025
Better Call Paul: How Did the Early Jewish Christians Understand “Works of the Law”?
In his new book, theologian Matthew Thomas takes on the big question of what the Apostle Paul means when he talks about "Works of the Law" -- as opposed to Grace -- in terms of Justification, address…
00:56:40 |
Thu 19 Jan 2023
We Shall Overcome: Sister Thea Bowman and the Black Catholic Experience
Though we are all one—“there is neither Jew nor Greek,” St. Paul wrote to the Galatians—each of us brings a particular heritage to the mosaic of God’s universal pilgrim church on Earth. Father Mauric…
00:58:22 |
Wed 18 Jan 2023
Words and the Word: How Scripture Brings Us into God’s Eternal Moment
Jeremy Holmes, Theology Professor at Wyoming Catholic College, describes his study of scripture through the lenses of narrative criticism and theological exegesis, following the model of St. Matthew.…
00:45:49 |
Tue 17 Jan 2023
Pray like a Mystic: Mystical Traditions and What to Do with Them
I asked Bishop Don Hying of the Diocese of Madison, Wisconsin, about mysticism and evangelization. He describes Christianity as unique among the world’s religions because “the universal, mysterious, …
00:41:39 |
Mon 16 Jan 2023
Holy Paradox and St. Teresa of Ávila: Mysticism in Sixteenth Century Spain
Carlos Eire, author of The Life of Saint Teresa of Ávila: A Biography (2019) and professor of medieval and early modern European history and religion at Yale University, discusses the life of St. Ter…
00:53:09 |
Sun 15 Jan 2023
Eternity Now: Talking about Mysticism with the Apostle to the Gangs of LA
Jesuit Father Greg Boyle is the founder of Homeboy Industries in East LA, the world’s largest and most successful gang intervention and rehabilitation program. He talks about this ministry and his “t…
00:48:22 |
Sat 14 Jan 2023
Marxists and Mystics: A Vatican Journalist Discusses her Biography of Madeleine Delbrêl and the New Papal Constitution
Vatican journalist Colleen Dulle discusses her biography of the French Mystic Madeleine Delbrêl, author of The Marxist City as Mission Territory (1957), and Catholic evangelist among the urban poor o…
00:53:24 |
Fri 13 Jan 2023
Queen of Heaven: How the Holy Spirit Works in the Catholic Tradition
Keith Berube, professor of Mariology, theology, and literature, explains how the Holy Spirit is at work in the scripture, tradition, and magisterium in the Catholic Church; he also tells the story of…
01:02:43 |
Thu 12 Jan 2023
Restless Pilgrims: About CS Lewis
David Bates, Catholic apologist and CS Lewis expert, reflects upon Lewis's conversion (how he was 'surprised by joy'), how his reason confirmed his feelings, how his theology stands on the authority …
00:56:02 |
Wed 11 Jan 2023
Did God Just Wink? Seeing the Numinous All Around Us
Anabelle Mosely talks about living sacramentally, finding holiness in little things, and seeing the numinous in our daily lives. The Kingdom of God is at hand, apparent in the little affirmations or …
00:58:40 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Pray for us Sinners: Our Lady of Fátima and Pope Francis’s Consecration of Russia and Ukraine
Professor William A. Thomas explains today's Consecration (March 25, 2022) by Pope Francis of Russia and Ukraine which is part of a century-long story, one that started in the Portuguese village of F…
00:44:38 |
Mon 09 Jan 2023
Robin Vose, "The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle Over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God" (Reaktion, 2022)
Robin Vose (St. Thomas University) talks about his new monograph, The Index of Prohibited Books: Four Centuries of Struggle over Word and Image for the Greater Glory of God (Reaktion, 2022), censorsh…
00:52:57 |
Mon 09 Jan 2023
What about Hell? CS Lewis and Theology of the Afterlife
Joseph Pearce, writer and literary scholar, leads us through CS Lewis’s theology on the afterlife and the meaning of eternity (and what Catholics say about his views). I ask him about Holy Saturday w…
00:52:53 |
Sun 08 Jan 2023
Zen Buddhism, Mardi Gras, and the Metaphysics of Eternity: Talking about Buddhist and Christian Mysticism
David Basile (who was our guest in Episode 01) returns to talk about his ten years in as a Zen Buddhist monk at the Tassajara Zen Mountain Retreat Center in California. He tells the story of how he w…
01:19:15 |
Sat 07 Jan 2023
Do We Live in a Christian Country?
I asked medieval historian Rachel Fulton Brown if we ought to still think of our nation (or any Western nation) as “a Christian country” in the twenty-first century. My reasoning was that I thought o…
00:54:56 |
Fri 06 Jan 2023
Matthew J. Hart and Daniel J. Hill, "Does God Intend that Sin Occur?" (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022)
Matthew J Hart and Daniel J Hill's book Does God Intend that Sin Occur? (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022) argues, from a detailed consideration of the Christian Scriptures, that God intends that sin occur. …
00:43:25 |
Thu 05 Jan 2023
It's Elementary! Catholic Education in the 21st Century
Joseph Nagel and Heather Skinner are principal and vice-principal of the School of the Madeleine in Berkeley, California; Mrs. Skinner was also once Joseph’s teacher and mine (your host, Chris Odynie…
00:45:30 |
Thu 05 Jan 2023
Mother of All Nations: Immaculate Conception, Virgin Birth, Assumption, and Coronation of Mary
Robert Fastiggi discusses Catholic doctrine about the Immaculate Conception, Virgin Birth, Assumption, and Coronation of Mary, the Mother of God. He also reflects on his participation in ecumenical d…
00:55:27 |
Wed 04 Jan 2023
Mary, Full of Grace: Catholic Beliefs about Mary and How We Know
Chris Padgett explains Catholic doctrine about the Virgin Mary and how both Sacred Tradition and Scripture inform the Magisterium. He talks about his Baptist upbringing, his own journey to the Church…
00:55:59 |
Tue 03 Jan 2023
Joel Robbins, "Theology and the Anthropology of Christian Life" (Oxford UP, 2020)
Anthropological theory can radically transform our understanding of human experience and offer theologians an introduction to the interdisciplinary nature between anthropology and Christianity. Both …
01:05:12 |
Tue 03 Jan 2023
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