In this episode, Chris is joined by Prof. Jack Gist, a humanities professor and contributor to Catholic World Report, Crisis, The Imaginative Conservative, New Oxford Review, Academic Questions, and St. Austin Review. They discuss what St. Thomas Aquinas called “disputatio” — a dispute in the healthiest sense of the word, in that Read more…

On this episode, Chris is joined by Dr. Damian Costello, a theological expert in the life of Nicholas Black Elk and vice-postulator of his cause of canonization. For Nicholas Black Elk, vibrant missionary discipleship and love of the rosary, Latin chant, and Sacred Scripture grew organically within his own personal Read more…

On this episode, Chris is joined by Joe Rutten, faculty member in the humanities department at Mount Marty University and Executive Director of the Catholic Men’s Business Fraternity.  Drawing on the Vatican document, “The Vocation of a the Business Leader,” Joe and Chris explore the dignity of work as the Read more…

On this episode, Chris is joined by Teresa Collett, a law professor and director of the Prolife Center at the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Professor Collett unpacks the pro-life Louisiana statute at stake in the June Medical decision, which was designed to ensure all women receive high-quality Read more…

On this episode, Chris is joined once more by Jason Adkins, the Executive Director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference.  They dive into two graduate courses that Jason teaches at St. Paul Seminary, “Politics and the New Evangelization” and “Catholicism and U.S. Politics.”  The conversation ranges from JPII to Alexis de Toqueville, Archbishop Read more…

On this episode, Chris is joined by Susan Safford, Director of Pastoral Ministries/Office of Faith Formation. They discuss the baptismal call of the laity to be on mission in the world, including in — you guessed it — politics.

In Part 2 of 2 of the discussion on St. Augustine’s City of God, Chris and Jon talk about telos (How do you say it, tee-los or tay-los?) and telescopes, the Internal Revenue Code, Graham Greene’s The Power and the Glory, the temporal order (it’s temporary), and the salvation of Read more…

On this episode, Chris Motz is joined by Erica Smith, one of the lead attorneys in Espinoza v. Montana Dept. of Revenue, a recent major decision of the Supreme Court. Erica and Chris discuss the anti-Catholic history of Blaine Amendments, and what the case means for education policy and the Read more…

On this episode, Faith & Politics host Chris Motz is joined by Jason Adkins, Esq., the executive director of the Minnesota Catholic Conference to discuss Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia, a major opinion published by the U.S. Supreme Court in June, described as the Roe v. Wade of transgender ideology.

In this special 4th of July episode of Faith & Politics, host Chris Motz and Fr. Brian Christensen talk about fast planes, Marine vs. Air Force jokes, St. John Paul II kissing Polish soil, loving one’s mother, and the virtue of patriotism.