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The Catholic Culture Podcast

Thomas V. Mirus explores Catholic arts & culture with a variety of notable guests. A production of CatholicCulture.org.

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Episode 36 - Bridges to Hell or Heaven: "Toxic Femininity" and the Spirit of Anti-Mary - Carrie Gress

Episode 36 - Bridges to Hell or Heaven: "Toxic Femininity" and the Spirit of Anti-Mary - Carrie Gress

One of the core things that has gone wrong with our culture in the past several decades is the denigration of every virt... Read more

1 May 2019

1hr 14mins

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Ep. 67 - "Why I'm No Longer a Catholic Feminist" - Melody Lyons

Ep. 67 - "Why I'm No Longer a Catholic Feminist" - Melody Lyons

After growing up immersed in feminism and a dissident parish that left her deeply unhappy, Melody Lyons found truth and ... Read more

21 Feb 2020

58mins

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Episode 13: Progressives Are Trying to Take Over Medieval Studies--Rachel Fulton Brown

Episode 13: Progressives Are Trying to Take Over Medieval Studies--Rachel Fulton Brown

The critical theorists and social justice warriors are trying to do to medieval studies what they’ve done to other disci... Read more

14 Aug 2018

53mins

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Episode 4: The Marian Option - Carrie Gress

Episode 4: The Marian Option - Carrie Gress

There is an easy, short, perfect and sure way to save our failing Western civilization that is often overlooked in the e... Read more

22 May 2018

1hr 12mins

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Episode 17: A Civics Lesson for Catholics--Bob Marshall

Episode 17: A Civics Lesson for Catholics--Bob Marshall

Many Catholics have become cynical about the possibility of changing the political landscape, but perhaps we’ve given up... Read more

26 Sep 2018

1hr 2mins

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Episode 18: Acedia, the Forgotten Capital Sin--RJ Snell

Episode 18: Acedia, the Forgotten Capital Sin--RJ Snell

Once included among the capital sins, acedia has been identified with both sloth and sadness. St. Thomas Aquinas, for ex... Read more

3 Oct 2018

55mins

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Episode 30--What Tolkien's Visual Art Tells Us About His Creative Mind--John McQuillen and Holly Ordway

Episode 30--What Tolkien's Visual Art Tells Us About His Creative Mind--John McQuillen and Holly Ordway

While Tolkien’s brilliance as a world-builder and storyteller is well-established, fewer people are aware of just how un... Read more

27 Feb 2019

1hr 4mins

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Episode 45 - Libertarianism vs. Natural Law on Private Property

Episode 45 - Libertarianism vs. Natural Law on Private Property

Thomas discusses his libertarian past, explains why he abandoned that political philosophy, and summarizes an article on... Read more

28 Jul 2019

1hr 4mins

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Episode 27: Always Wanted to Study the Great Books? Here's How You'll Actually Follow Through--Scott Hambrick

Episode 27: Always Wanted to Study the Great Books? Here's How You'll Actually Follow Through--Scott Hambrick

Many people want to study the great books of the western world in a group setting, but are unable to study at a Great Bo... Read more

29 Jan 2019

1hr 20mins

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Ep. 62—Overcoming Catholic Dating Hangups & Social Isolation

Ep. 62—Overcoming Catholic Dating Hangups & Social Isolation

We've all heard the complaints about Catholic dating. Catholics have trouble with the concept of "casual dating" because... Read more

19 Jan 2020

1hr 2mins

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Episode 29 - Catholic Feminism: Should We? - Abigail Rine Favale

Episode 29 - Catholic Feminism: Should We? - Abigail Rine Favale

Today there is more pressure than ever before on both women and men to embrace feminism. In her outstanding memoir, Into... Read more

19 Feb 2019

1hr 14mins

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Episode 55 - The Hundredfold - Anthony Esolen

Episode 55 - The Hundredfold - Anthony Esolen

Having honed his skills translating Dante, Tasso and Lucretius, well-known Catholic cultural commentator Anthony Esolen ... Read more

19 Nov 2019

58mins

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Episode 47 - Our Lady's Habit: Wearing and Loving the Brown Scapular - Fr. Justin Cinnante, O.Carm.

Episode 47 - Our Lady's Habit: Wearing and Loving the Brown Scapular - Fr. Justin Cinnante, O.Carm.

Many Catholics have worn the Brown Scapular at some point in their lives. Some of those people stopped wearing it for on... Read more

14 Aug 2019

48mins

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Episode 52—Off-Broadway Play Accurately Portrays Conservative Thought: Zoology or Spiritual Wisdom?

Episode 52—Off-Broadway Play Accurately Portrays Conservative Thought: Zoology or Spiritual Wisdom?

In the new off-Broadway play Heroes of the Fourth Turning, playwright Will Arbery (son of two Wyoming Catholic College p... Read more

21 Oct 2019

1hr 20mins

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Episode 8: How to Stop Public Porn--Abriana Chilelli

Episode 8: How to Stop Public Porn--Abriana Chilelli

Abriana Chilelli had to drive her children past a lewd strip club advertisement every day on their way home from school ... Read more

27 Jun 2018

39mins

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Episode 15: Online Education with The Tolkien Professor--Corey Olsen

Episode 15: Online Education with The Tolkien Professor--Corey Olsen

Corey Olsen, aka The Tolkien Professor, started out putting his college lectures out in podcast form, and ended up found... Read more

29 Aug 2018

1hr 1min

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Ep. 65 - Reason With Stories, Philosophize With Your Life (Vision of the Soul Pt. III) - James Matthew Wilson

Ep. 65 - Reason With Stories, Philosophize With Your Life (Vision of the Soul Pt. III) - James Matthew Wilson

Modernity elevated pure, abstract reasoning as the only way to know about reality. Reason having disenchanted everything... Read more

30 Jan 2020

57mins

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Episode 19: Understanding the Church's Abuse Crisis--Fr. Roger Landry

Episode 19: Understanding the Church's Abuse Crisis--Fr. Roger Landry

The faithful have many questions about the ecclesiastical sexual abuse crisis: What did Church authorities do right in r... Read more

11 Oct 2018

55mins

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Episode 3: Native American Catholicism & the New Evangelization--Peter Jesserer Smith

Episode 3: Native American Catholicism & the New Evangelization--Peter Jesserer Smith

The history of Catholicism in the native American nations is little known, but is rife with lessons for lay spirituality... Read more

16 May 2018

1hr 15mins

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Episode 58 - A Hidden Life Film Review w/ James Majewski

Episode 58 - A Hidden Life Film Review w/ James Majewski

Terrence Malick’s stunning new film, A Hidden Life, is about Blessed Franz Jägerstätter, an Austrian farmer who was mart... Read more

13 Dec 2019

50mins

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