Thomas Aquinas writes that wisdom is where the revelation of God begins, because it is God who draws near to us in covenant love. Marcus has more.

The first gender “detransitioner” medical-malpractice case to go to trial resulted in a $2 million dollar verdict against the medical professionals who approved a double mastectomy for the plaintiff when she was only 16 years old. Wes Smith tells us more.

Further Reading

‘Detransitioner’ Wins $2 Million Medical-Malpractice Lawsuit

Guest Info

Wes Smith is the Chair and Senior Fellow at the Discovery Institute’s Center on Human Exceptionalism. He’s also the host of the Humanize Podcast. He’s the author of 13 books including “Culture of Death: The age of Do-Harm Medicine.” Follow him on Twitter @thewesleyjsmith and check out his articles at National Review, First Things and more.

Today is the feast of the Presentation of the Lord in the Temple. The temple was the center of the Jewish world and played an integral part in the faith. We explore it with Andre Villeneuve.

Guest Info

André Villeneuve (PhD, Hebrew University of Jerusalem) is associate professor of Old Testament and biblical languages at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, Michigan. He received his Licentiate in Sacred Scripture from the Pontifical Biblical Commission in Rome. He is the author of Divine Marriage from Eden to the End of Days and the director of Catholics for Israel.

Fr. Timothy Gallagher has founded the Ignatian Discernment Institute to equip people of all vocations to live the spiritual life with hope, joy, and fruitfulness through St. Ignatius of Loyola’s teaching on discernment. He joins us to talk more about the meaning of discernment.

Further Reading

Ignatian Discernment Institute

Books by Fr Timothy Gallagher

Guest Info

Fr Timothy Gallagher is cofounder and director of the Ignatian Discernment Institute. Fr. Gallagher was ordained to the priesthood in 1979 as a member of the Congregation of the Oblates of the Virgin Mary. In 1983, he obtained his doctorate from The Pontifical Gregorian University, and became a spiritual director and retreat leader. He has taught at St. John’s Seminary, Brighton, and Our Lady of Grace Seminary Residence, Boston, both in Massachusetts. In 2015, Father Gallagher accepted the St. Ignatius Chair for Spiritual Formation at St. John Vianney Theological Seminary in Denver. He has written over twenty books on spiritual themes, published articles in Catholic periodicals, appears frequently on Catholic television, and records many podcasts, radio interviews, series on YouTube, and virtual events used throughout the English-speaking Catholic world.

In today’s Responsorial Psalm for the Feast of the Presentation, we declare “Who is the King of Glory? It is the Lord!” It’s an especially appropriate prayer for this era of political division and “No Kings” protests. Doug Keck joins us with more.

Guest Info

Doug Keck is the Emeritus President and COO of EWTN and the host of EWTN Bookmark.

We Americans have a thing about freedom. The deepest wellsprings of American freedom are not ours by virtue of being American but by virtue of our being human. And if there is a genius in our political traditions, it lies in a remarkable political system that we have not devised ourselves but only inherited. But for a people to be free, they must be willing and capable of living freely – and that begins with Truth. Stephen White joins us.

Further Reading

Freedom in the Ties That Bind

Guest Info

Stephen P. White is executive director of The Catholic Project at The Catholic University of America and a fellow in Catholic Studies at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

On Friday, February 13, the seminarians of Sacred Heart Major Seminary will host an evening of worship and hope to raise support for Pregnancy Aid Detroit. Charley Bemiss has the details.

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Charley Bemiss is a Configuration III Seminarian at Sacred Heart Major Seminary. He was born into a Catholic family and attended St. Isaac Jogues parish in his youth. His faith took on a new meaning while he was a student at Wayne State University and realized the importance of sacramental living, and began to truly know the Eucharist as the source and summit of our Faith.

Today marks an odd historical anniversary. On February 2, 1935, an inventor named Leonarde Keeler strapped an accused man to a polygraph machine and asked him a series of questions. For the next few minutes, the machine declared what was true and what was false. The polygraph promised something humans have wanted since the Garden: a shortcut past the messiness of conscience, speech, and character. But the same culture that craves technological certainty has also spent the last few decades training itself to sneer at any stable account of truth. Marcus has more.

Every saint — from the greatest thinker to the commonest servant — has walked the same narrow road: the path of humility. It is the foundation of every virtue and the key to sanctity. Patrick O’Hearn joins us to talk about it.

Further Reading

Book: Humility of the Saints: The Litany of Humility Made Flesh

Patrick’s website

Guest Info

Patrick O’Hearn is an author, speaker, and content creator. He served as TAN Books’ acquisitions editor for two years and currently works as the Director of Ministry Expansion for Stewardship: A Mission of Faith. He is the author and editor of several books, including The Grief of Dads and Humility of the Saints.

In this Sunday’s Gospel, Jesus delivers the Sermon on the Mount and gives us the Beatitudes. We unpack the readings with Rob Corzine.

Guest Info

Rob Corzine is the vice president of programs for the St Paul Center for Biblical theology.