Beginning the Climb up Purgatory Mountain: Souls Who Just Made It
We enter the second phase of our journey through the afterlife as we begin Dante’s Purgatorio. This book is the heart of The Divine Comedy in fact and in spirit as it offers real and profound suggest...
6 Touko 20231h 6min
Temptation in Dostoevsky's "Grand Inquisitor"
This episode is a discussion of the three temptations of Christ through the lens of the Grand Inquisitor in The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky.The music in the introduction and close of this ...
23 Huhti 202335min
Rejecting God’s Sovereignty: Sins Against Truth in Dante's Inferno
In this session, we complete our journey through Dante's Inferno, looking specifically at Cantos XVIII, XX, and XXIII-XXVIII. Imagining the darkest paces in hell, Dante will compel us to consider sin...
2 Huhti 20231h 2min
Raging at Reality: The Sins of Violence in Dante’s Inferno
We continue our tour through Dante’s Inferno by examining the levels of hell reserved to sins of violence. Specifically, we discuss Cantos IX-XV. To supplement your reading, there are a myriad of dr...
26 Maalis 20231h 3min
Caught in the Whirlwind: The Sins of Incontinence in Dante’s Inferno
This episode is a whirlwind tour through Dante’s whirlwind of the sins of the flesh. We’ll meet the Hoarders and the Wasters, the Gluttons, the Wrathful and the Sullen, and, of course, poor, pathetic,...
12 Helmi 202351min
Starting the Descent into Dante’s Inferno: The Dark Woods, The Three Beasts
We begin the third part in our five part series: a ten-week tour through Dante’s epic spiritual poem, The Divine Comedy. An imaginative vision of hell, purgatory, and heaven, this ranks with the great...
9 Helmi 20231h 6min
Orthodoxy: G.K. Chesterton’s Answer to Modern Insanity
In this episode, special guest presenter Dr. Michael Goodrich breaks open G.K. Chesterton’s Orthodoxy, a book that many pastors and scholars consider the greatest work of modern apologetics. You can f...
2 Helmi 20231h
He Leadeth Me: A Testimony of Divine Providence from the Horrors of the Gulag
In this episode, Barbara Nicolosi Harrington reflects on He Leadeth Me, the spiritual autobiography of Father Walter Ciszek, SJ. This book is one of the most vital and powerful Catholic testimonies of...
28 Tammi 202353min
