Thinking with the Church

In this episode, we speak with the Archbishop of Toronto, Cardinal Thomas Collins, who discusses his serious concerns over a controversial new government requirement on organizations seeking federal funding for summer hires. This new attestation is proving problematic for many faith-based organizations. It also doesn’t sit well with many Canadian citizens, including many people who, though they broadly agree with the government’s social policy agenda, don’t think organizations ought to be subjected to what amounts to an ideological litmus test.

In this edition of Thinking with the Church, a conversation with Robert P. George, McCormick Professor of Jurisprudence at Princeton University and director of the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions, also at Princeton. In thinking through the nature and scope of Catholic education, we thought it would be good to hear from a committed Catholic academic, whose faith informs his intellectual life and professional endeavor, which he lives and carries out in an institutional environment that - while not at odds with Catholic faith or commitment - is nevertheless not dedicated to the specifically Catholic embodiment of the idea of the university.

In this edition of Thinking with the Church, a conversation with Raymond Leo Cardinal Burke.

In this edition, a conversation with Dr. Leonardo Franchi, a lecturer at the University of Glasgow and editor – along with Ronnie Convery and Raymond McCloskey – of the volumes Reclaiming the Piazza: Catholic Education as a Cultural Project and Reclaiming the Piazza II: Catholic Education and the New Evangelization.

Fr. Paul Samasumo of Zambia is vice president of the World Catholic Association for Communication, SIGNIS, the first African to hold one of the top three positions in the organization, to which he was elected in the summer of 2017 by the delegates to the SIGNIS world congress in Quebec. He met with TwtC's Chris Altieri recently, for a broad-ranging conversation on the state of the Church in Africa.

David is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of Massachusetts Citizens for Life, and Director of Development for that same. A trained theologian and poet, David is deeply Catholic and profoundly patriotic: people don’t talk like he does anymore. Getting to know him better in this edition was at once edifying and delightful.

A look in three parts at the upcoming season of Thinking with the Church, which will be exploring Catholic education. We speak with Leonardo Franchi, David Franks, John Dickson, David Anthony Dehner, and others, about what it is to form the whole person.

Will Pope Francis Pull it Off? is the title of Prof. Rocco D'Ambrosio's new book about the reform program of Pope Francis. In this edition, we go inside the slim, powerful volume with the author, who is a priest of the Diocese of Bari and Professor of Political Philosophy in the School of Social Sciences at the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome.

This week's episode is a reflection on how irreconcilable differences need not lead to irreducible conflict.

In this edition of Thinking with the Church: a conversation with Philip Larrey, priest, professor and author of Connected World: from Automated Work to Virtual Wars - the future, by those who are shaping it (320 pages, Penguin, 2017).