By The Editors
Podcast by The Editors
Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined by Deacon Harrison Garlick and Chris Ruckdeschel for a discussion on education, avoiding the pitfalls of the “Great Books,” and recovering the classical liberal arts. Bibliography * Alcuin Institute for Catholic Culture * Septem Artes...
Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined by Gideon Lazar for a conversation on Pope Francis’ Laudate Deum and a Catholic approach to environmentalism. You may follow Gideon on (the website formerly known as) Twitter, @ByzCat. Bibliography * Pope Francis, Laudate...
In his final episode (pre-recorded prior to entering seminary), Urban Hannon is joined by Nathaniel Gotcher and special guest Prof. Philip Bess, for a discussion about the theological and philosophical foundations of urbanism—and how we should think about urban form. Prof....
Urban Hannon is joined by Lauren Onak for a conversation about the American Solidarity Party, third-party politics, and harmonizing political with spiritual. Lauren is the American Solidarity Party’s Vice Presidential candidate in the 2024 election. Bibliography * Lauren Onak’s Acceptance Speech...
Urban Hannon is joined by Zac Mabry and Amanda for a conversation about the most memed and screened double feature of the year. Bibliography * Helen Andrews, “Barbie: A Millennial Mom Movie” (The American Conservative). * Nina Power, “Socialism or Barbie-ism” (Compact). If...
Archduke Eduard of Austria, of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta, joins Urban Hannon for a conversation on Bl. Karl of Austria, his family, and his most recent book: The...
Thomistic theology is rarely associated with liturgical prayer. So, in this episode, Urban Hannon turns the conversation toward St Thomas Aquinas’ mystagogy of the Mass—that is, his theological teaching on the meaning and purpose of its various rites. The handout mentioned...
Urban Hannon is joined by Ed and Pat Smith for a conversation about Charles De Koninck’s unpublished course notes on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche. Bibliography * Charles De Koninck’s Course Notes on Nietzsche, which we have made available here. Header Image:...
Urban Hannon is joined by Fr. Hugh Barbour, O.Praem., of St. Michael’s Abbey, and Fr. Jon Tveit for a conversation on Charles De Koninck’s work, Ego Sapientia: The Wisdom That Is Mary. Bibliography * Charles De Koninck, “Ego Sapientia: The Wisdom That...
In his inaugural episode as Editor, Urban Hannon is joined by Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. and Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. for a conversation about our Blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Bibliography * St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Ia q. 3...
Urban Hannon, Matthew Walther, and the Rev. Jon Tveit join Pater Edmund to discuss the life, death, and writings of Pope Benedict XVI. Bibliography Jon Tveit, “The Liturgy and Society” The Josias. Jonathan Culbreath, “Her Sacred Enterprise: Liturgy and the Common Good” Peregrine...
Urban Hannon’s “The Politics of Hell,” narrated by James T. Majewski of Catholic Culture Audiobooks. Header Image: Neil Packer. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay...
Pater Edmund speaks with Pater Ælred Maria Anthony John Howard Davies, Subprior of Stift Heiligenkreuz, about the late Queen Elizabeth II. Music: Henry Purcell, Thou Knowest, Lord If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to...
Contributors to The Josias and Ius & Iusitium pick their favorite movies and discuss them. The result of the draft: To vote for a winner click here. Bibliography Tertullian, De Spectaculis (On the Shows) John Francis Nieto, A Study of Film. Music: Max Steiner, “Tara Theme”...
Do rights exist, or are they moral fictions? What is the significance of the distinction between objective and subjective rights? In this lecture, Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. Gives an account of rights and their relation to the common good. Bibliography and...
The debate on socialism continues, with Pater Edmund playing the socialist and Alan Fimister taking the anti-socialist side. Joel is joined by Chris to moderate the discussion. Bibliography and Links Leo XIII, Rerum novarum (1891) Pius XI, Quadragesimo anno (1931) Ernest Fortin, “Sacred and Inviolable: Rerum Novarum and...
Alan Fimister comes on the podcast to debate socialism with Pater Edmund. For the purposes of the debate, Pater Edmund takes the socialist side, arguing that the injustices of modern capitalism, which orders all things to the private interests of...
Historicism seems to be a challenge to an integralist account of politics, because it denies that there is an unchanging truth about the human good accessible to our minds. In this episode the editors talk to Felix de St. Vincent...
Our new technical editor, Chris, moderates a discussion with the editors of questions raised by our listeners. Nota bene: In the discussion of distributism at the 1:10 mark when Pater Edmund said “that’s what integralism is all about” he meant to...
Prof. Thomas Pink joins the editors to discuss Thomas Hobbes’s radical rejection of the scholastic understanding of law as a coercive teacher, and the anti-integralist motives behind that rejection. Bibliography * Thomas Pink, “Suarez on Authority as Coercive Teacher,” Quaestio (2019).* Petrus Hispanus, “Notes...
The editors discuss Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Libertas praestantissimum, on the true nature of liberty—both natural and moral—and on the errors of the liberals. Bibliography * Pope Leo XIII, Libertas praestantissimum (1888).* Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., “Contrasting Concepts of Freedom,” The Josias (2016). Music:...
The encyclicals Deus caritas est and Spe salvi raise two opposite objections against Christianity: Christian love seems too altruistic, opposed to one’s own happiness; while Christian hope seems too egoistic, opposed to proper concern for temporal society. The editors discuss...
We live in a society in which the few live in excess, while the many live in miserable and wretched conditions. We live in a society in which the poor are defenseless against the inhumanity of employers and the unbridled...
Continuing a series of reflections on important 20th century critiques of modernity and liberalism that has included episodes on Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History, the editors are joined again by Gabriel Sanchez to discuss...
Justice, according to St. Thomas, is the perpetual and constant will to render each one his right. Distributive justice, commutative justice, potential parts, quasi-integral parts, debt, cannibalism—in this episode, the editors cover it all. Bibliography * Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae,...
The Josias Editors discuss punishment and the good of order in a teleological universe. Bibliography * Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II Q. 60; II-II Q 64, A 2; II-II Q. 108.* Plato, Gorgias. Music: “Bin ich nun frei Wirklich frei,” Das...
Does natural law demand a world government? Bibliography * Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano, 1922.* Henri Grenier, World Government is Required by Natural Law, The Josias, 2015.* Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., Secularized Fraternity or Solidarity and the Failure of the European Union, Sancrucensis,...
The editors are joined by special guest Daniel to discuss the Resurrection of Christ. Along the way they explore what it means for Christ to be New Adam, the necessity and fittingness of the Resurrection, and the meaning of the...
The editors return and deconstruct integralism by taking on the post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida, but in the end discover they were metaphysicians all along. Along the way, the discussion veers into Nietzsche, 19th century interpretations of Bach, internet meme culture,...
A familiar voice returns after a long absence. Three voices discuss what it means to be brave, the cowardice of Dr. Proudie, the softness of clerics more generally, the brilliance of Monteverdi, and the exquisite comedy of Plato’s Laches. Bibliography * Saint...
«To reject natural right is tantamount to saying that all right is positive right, and this means that what is right is determined exclusively by the legislators and the courts of the various countries. Now it is obviously meaningful, and...
In which, your hosts take aim at Frederick II (the other Frederick II), and discuss Prudence as truth and the distinction between false and true Prudence. Along the way they also touch on: Prudence as the Queen of the virtues; why...
In which your editors get brain worms, join a Bayou death cult, discover why they are “all like that,” achieve the goods internal to the practice of podcasting, and still find time to discuss Alasdair MacIntyre’s seminal work, After Virtue. Links *...
Honking geese, Byzantine chariot racing, and a rousing discussion of the deep and essential connection between the liturgy and the common good—in this episode, your hosts are joined by Jonathan Culbreath and Doctor Peter Kwasniewski. Along the way, they discuss...
How ought we to think of our common life as human beings created in the image of God? Do our modern habits of thought prevent us from understanding what was going on in the Middle Ages? And more importantly: can...
A freewheeling discussion in which our editors have a very TAC moment discussing the connection of the music of the spheres and the virtues, and then set out to discuss Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, but somehow talk more about Plato. Important...
That Christ died for our sins is at the heart of of the Christian faith: “For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures” (1 Cor...
Historian and theologian Alan Fimister joins the editors to discuss whether Pope Leo XIII was right to ask French Catholics to recognize the Third Republic. And more generally: does political engagement in modern parliamentary politics engender liberalism in Catholics? What form...
Restlessly seek power after power ceasing only in death, or just try to be a little crueler every day? Wherein the gang flows along the surface of life’s path as they please; unleash Newman’s critique of political liberalism; ponder what...
The philosophers have only interpreted liberals in various ways. The point, however, is to own them. Wherein liberalism is said in many ways, and revealed in Strauss’s war on the Redemptorists, and whether or not the Abbot of Heiligenkreuz should have the...
Building off our previous conversation, this episode (iTunes, Google Play) takes the question of nature and natural ends more into the modern era. What’s going on with natural order in the work of modern philosophers like Descartes, Hume, and Kant? What should...
Do rocks have purpose? Are they essentially headed somewhere? What about plants? Humans? The stars? In part one of this episode (iTunes, Google Play) we touch on a bunch of questions related to the idea that the universe is ordered and...
What does it mean for something to be someone’s “right”? What is “a right”? Turns out “right” and “law” are closer in meaning than you might think. Joined by a guest, in this episode (iTunes, Google Play) we cover the main...
Antiliberalism? Illiberalism? Crypto-neo-facsco-socialist-theocracy? In this episode (iTunes, Google Play), we discuss a variety of jargon terms used to describe different schools of Catholic political thought. And we talk about Freemasons. And Mozart. And Sicilian uprisings. And many other things. We had...
“The Common Good” is a bland, empty phrase that gets tossed around a lot. In our inaugural podcast, ( iTunes) the editors of The Josias are here to take back The Common Good and give it some substance. Along the...
Gloria TV has released a new interview with Cardinal Raymond Burke, Patron of the Order of the Knights of Malta. We invite readers to watch the interview at Gloria TV, or (since their servers seem to be rather slow) to listen...
