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The Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture episodes
- Rupture and Reformation: 14th–16th Century with Joseph Pearce
Join us as renowned Catholic author Joseph Pearce, this year’s St. John Henry Newman Visiting Chair in Catholic Studies, lectures on the history of Christendom based on his forthcoming book, The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: History in Three Dimensions (Ignatius Press). Each lecture will weave the tapestry of the centuries with the goodness of the saints, the wickedness of the worldly, and the beauty of great art.
This is the fifth in a series of eight lectures given by Joseph Pearce. This series is presented by Thomas More College of Liberal Arts together with the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture.
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Thomas More College Press1 hr 12 min - The Weaponization of Loneliness with Stella Morabito
Stella Morabito spent more than a decade studying Soviet propaganda as a CIA analyst, sharpening her ability to recognize how powerful people and institutions seek to influence popular thoughts—and sometimes create popular fears. In this episode she talks with Phil Lawler about her new book, The Weaponization of Loneliness: How Tyrants Stoke Our Fear of Isolation to Silence, Divide, and Conquer.
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Thomas More College Press24 min - The Best and Worst of Times: 11th–13th Century with Joseph Pearce
The History of Christendom: An Eight-part Lecture Series
Join us as renowned Catholic author Joseph Pearce, this year’s St. John Henry Newman Visiting Chair in Catholic Studies, lectures on the history of Christendom based on his forthcoming book, The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: History in Three Dimensions (Ignatius Press). Each lecture will weave the tapestry of the centuries with the goodness of the saints, the wickedness of the worldly, and the beauty of great art.
This is the fourth in a series of eight lectures given by Joseph Pearce. This series is presented by Thomas More College of Liberal Arts together with the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture.
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Thomas More College Press37 min - Looking Back on the Resignation of Pope Benedict XVI
The death of Pope Benedict XVI has drawn new attention to an old question: What was the real reason for his resignation?
Join us for this fireside chat with Phil Lawler, Senior Fellow and Program Director of the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture. To learn more about the Center, visit restorationchristianculture.org.
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Thomas More College Press26 min - The Death and Resurrection of Rome: 5th–10th Century with Joseph Pearce
The History of Christendom: An Eight-part Lecture Series
Join us as renowned Catholic author Joseph Pearce, this year’s St. John Henry Newman Visiting Chair in Catholic Studies, lectures on the history of Christendom based on his forthcoming book, The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: History in Three Dimensions (Ignatius Press). Each lecture will weave the tapestry of the centuries with the goodness of the saints, the wickedness of the worldly, and the beauty of great art.
This is the third in a series of eight lectures given by Joseph Pearce. This series is presented by Thomas More College of Liberal Arts together with the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture.
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Thomas More College Press54 min - Was America’s Founding Fatally Flawed by the Provenance of Its Ideas? with Robert Reilly
Troubled by the ample evidence of a moral decline in the United States, some Catholic thinkers trace the problem to what they see as a fatal flaw in the American Founding: a reliance on the philosophical principles of the Enlightenment. Robert Reilly, the author of America on Trial, disagrees. He argues that the political ideas of the Founders are compatible with—and indeed derived from—the tradition of respect for Reason and Revelation, Church and State, developed by Catholic philosophers of the Middle Ages.
Robert Reilly is Director of the Westminster Institute. In his twenty-five years of government service, he served as Special Assistant to the President and as Director of the Voice of America, was Senior Advisor for Information Strategy to the Secretary of Defense, and taught at National Defense University.
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Thomas More College Press1 hr 10 min - From Christ to Constantine: The Early Church with Joseph Pearce
The History of Christendom: An Eight-part Lecture Series
Join us as renowned Catholic author Joseph Pearce, this year’s St. John Henry Newman Visiting Chair in Catholic Studies, lectures on the history of Christendom based on his forthcoming book, The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: History in Three Dimensions (Ignatius Press). Each lecture will weave the tapestry of the centuries with the goodness of the saints, the wickedness of the worldly, and the beauty of great art.
This is the second in a series of eight lectures given by Joseph Pearce. This series is presented by Thomas More College of Liberal Arts together with the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture.Learn more about Thomas More College
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Thomas More College Press1 hr 2 min - Don't Let the World Raise Your Teenager: How to Have Good Culture with Young People
Links:
- Like Mother, Like Daughter blog
- Leila Lawler, The Summa Domestica
- Leila Lawler and David Clayton, The Little Oratory: A Beginner's Guide for Praying in the Home
- Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, The Spirit of the Liturgy (the chapter on music is excerpted here)
- C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
- Joseph Pieper, Leisure: The Basis of Culture
- Joseph Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues
- Carlo Cardinal Caffarra, “The Restoration of Man”: The centrality of conscience and how it is related to the virtue of Prudence
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Thomas More College Press1 hr 4 min - The Next American Economy with Samuel Gregg
Phil talks with Samuel Gregg about his book The Next American Economy: Nation, State, and Markets in an Uncertain World, wherein he makes the case for the possibility of a vibrant future for “the world’s biggest economy.” Samuel Gregg is Distinguished Fellow in Political Economy and Senior Research Faculty at the American Institute for Economic Research and a research fellow at the Acton Institute.
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Thomas More College Press30 min - Is Chastity a Ministry?
Links:
- Leila Lawler, The Summa Domestica
- Leila Lawler and David Clayton, The Little Oratory: A Beginner's Guide for Praying in the Home
- "A Family-Friendly Guide to Sex Education" (my article in Crisis and a chapter in The Summa Domestica; not my title)
- "The Truth and Meaning of Human Sexuality: Guidelines for Education within the Family" from The Pontifical Council for the Family
- Divini Illius Magistri by Pope Pius XI (Encyclical On Christian Education)
- "A Parent's Guide to Chastity Education" by Archbishop Samuel J. Aquila, D.D. (This article is excellent. I advise caution with the books in the section of the bibliography labeled thusly: "For practical help in the teaching of chastity, parents may consult the following books...." The prudent parent will check the advice in any of the books against the substance of the article!)
Image: Excerpt from School Time by Winslow Homer. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington
Intro: Mozart: Piano Sonata no. 10 in C major, K. 330 - III. Allegretto, performed by Vadim ChaimovichLearn more about Thomas More College
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Thomas More College Press1 hr 5 min
About The Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture
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The Thomas More Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture seeks to promote a vigorous public witness to the faith in New England. Following the lead of its patron, St. Thomas More, the Center…
will focus its efforts in five areas: education, culture, Church teaching, civic life, and family life.The Center hopes to address the crisis of our age: the crisis of a civilization that has drifted from the principles on which it was founded. Lacking a firm foundation, our society is unstable; we no longer have the shared set of fundamental principles that is required for productive discussions. So our public debates have degenerated into shouting matches.The purpose of the Thomas More Center, however, is not to mourn the decline in society, but to build an outpost of civility: a community in which reasoned discussion, animated by Christian faith, can work toward a revival. The Center will advance beyond the past battles of the “culture wars” (although from time to time our members may play their own roles in public controversies). Our goal is to set the agenda for the public discussions of coming years. Toward that end, the Center will invite speakers, host seminars, and organize conferences. We will encourage both intellectuals and civic leaders to take part in discussions, exploring the practical applications of our ideas. The Center will act as a bridge, bringing together town and gown—always under the guidance of the Church.The Center is a project of Thomas More College and finds a natural partnership with a school dedicated to the pursuit of the true, the good, and the beautiful. The Center will challenge students and faculty—and beyond the campus, our neighbors in the town and the region—not only to discuss and appreciate the principles on which our culture is founded, but to live those principles. The Center will support active involvement in the arts, in politics, in literature, in education, and above all in the life of faith. In short, the Center will explore the crucial questions of how mature Christians can live in freedom, and how people of faith can give new hope to a secularized society.The primary mission of the Center is unapologetically focused upon New England. We hope to stimulate a revival of Christian culture in a region that has always been a seedbed of new ideas and ideals—where the original European settlers, motivated by their own active Christian faith, first sought to build a “shining city on a hill.” Our own geographical scope will be limited, but we hope that others, fortified by our example, will build similar institutions elsewhere.To learn more, please visit https://restorationchristianculture.org/