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Morals on the Book of Job Volume I Part I - Pope Gregory I - Part 1

Saint Gregory's Commentary on Job, sometimes called "An Extensive Consideration of Moral Questions," was written between 578 and 595. It is Gregory's major work, filling some 35 books or 6 volumes, making perhaps the single largest surviving patristic work. In his work he both comments on the book …

Virtue As We Enter The New Dark Ages

Virtue feels a bit out of place these days. Like a ninth grade student who has wandered into a party and isn’t sure if they’re in the right house, Virtue is a bit gangly and awkward, and surrounded by a bunch of people who are just trying to “seize the day.” Their master Impulse would pref…

The Investiture Controversy

The Investiture Controversy was a pivotal 11th-century conflict between King Henry IV of Germany and Pope Gregory VII over whether secular rulers or the papacy held authority to appoint church officials. The dispute led to Henry’s excommunications, political turmoil, and civil war within the German…

August 16 - Saint Stephen of Hungary—Optional Memorial

Read entire reflection online >>>August 16: Saint Stephen of Hungary—Optional Memorialc. 975–1038Patron Saint of bricklayers, kings, stonecutters, masons, and parents who have lost a childCanonized by Pope Gregory VII in 1083Liturgical Color: WhiteQuote: To thee, O Queen of heaven, and to thy guard…

The War of the Sexes Has Been Going on for Millennia [First Half]

To finish our Hetero Month programming, we go back to the beginning of the war of the sexes: the prehistorical suppression female-centered religions and the casting of Mary Magdalene as a prostitute by the early church. Bri O’Reilly—Irish cradle Catholic—comes on the show to discuss how the sex war…

Hildebrand and his Times - William Richard Ward Stephens

W.R.W. Stephens, the Anglican Dean of Winchester, writes a short, lively biography of the great church reformer, Hildebrand of Sovana (1015-1085), afterwards Pope Gregory VII, setting his life within the larger context of the struggle for dominance between the Holy Roman Empire and the Papacy durin…

September 5: Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta—Memorial

Read entire reflection online >>>September 5: Saint Mother Teresa of Calcutta—Memorialc. 975–1038Patron Saint of bricklayers, kings, stonecutters, masons, and parents who have lost a childCanonized by Pope Gregory VII in 1083Liturgical Color: WhiteQuote: It was a call within my vocation. It was a s…

360. Eleutherius

The feast day of Saint Eleutherius the Abbot at Spoleto—the 6th-century Italian monk and friend of Pope Gregory the Great—is celebrated on September 6.  Truth Unites podcast with Gavin Ortlund at https://amzn.to/4pccMeh Gavin Ortlund books available at https://amzn.to/44HlMj9 What It Means to …

September 7 -Ask Father: Heading Toward Ruin or Rising Out From the Rubble? Have We Hit Rock Bottom Yet?

Dr. Tom Curran asks Fr. Kurt Nagel: Are we living in a time of Pope Gregory or Pope Leo? Are we headed toward ruin, or is it time to relaunch? Today’s hosts respond to quotes by St. Gregory the Great, St. Rose of Viterbo, Blessed Frédéric Ozanam, and St. Teresa of Calcutta.

TWL - 7DeadlySins- S8E2

Truth Worth Living is back this week with the second installment in our series on the seven deadly sins, and before we ever get to pride, envy, gluttony, lust, anger, greed, or sloth themselves, there's a question worth settling first: why call any sin "deadly" at all? This episode digs into where …