Special Guests: Donnell Leahy and Natalie MacMaster.

Links:

• Natalie and Donnell Homepage — Learn more about Natalie and Donnell, and explore their music.
• Natalie and Donnell on Apple Music
• Natalie and Donnell on streaming
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Special Guest: Abigail Favale.

Links:

• Abigail Favale's Homepage
• Dr. Favale at dCEC Fall Conference 2021
• Dr. Favale at New York Encounter 2022 - Body and Identity — A presentation on gender theory and its social implications, with Abigail Favale, Dean of the College of Humanities, George Fox University, and Helen Joyce, executive editor for events business of The Economist, moderated by Holly Peterson, Principal of Nativity: Faith and Reason School in Broomfield, CO.
• Dr. Favale on "What is Sex For?" at MICL Cultures of Formation Conference
• Book: "Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion"
• Book: "The Genesis of Gender: A Christian Theory"
• New York Encounter — NEW YORK ENCOUNTER IS AN ANNUAL THREE-DAY CULTURAL EVENT IN THE HEART OF NEW YORK CITY, OFFERING OPPORTUNITIES FOR EDUCATION, DIALOGUE, AND FRIENDSHIP.
• Communion and Liberation — Communion and Liberation is the lay Catholic movement which sponsors the New York Encounter.
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Special Guest: Christopher Beha.

Links:

• Author's Homepage: Christopher Beha
• The Index of Self Destructive Acts — Longlisted for the National Book Award A New York Times Editors’ Choice Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize Named a Best Book of the Year by Kirkus, The Christian Science Monitor, Library Journal, and BuzzFeed
• The Whole Five Feet — In The Whole Five Feet, Christopher Beha turns to the great books for answers after undergoing a series of personal and family crises and learning that his grandmother had used the Harvard Classics to educate herself during the Great Depression. The result is a smart, big-hearted, and inspirational mix of memoir and intellectual excursion that “deftly illustrates how books can save one’s life” (Helen Schulman).
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Special Guest: Alex Jones.

Links:

• Hallow: The #1 Catholic app for prayer, meditation, music, and sleep
• "My Journey From Atheist to Maybe a Christian Pt. 1" — "...my faith journey has been one of re-discovery. The first step for me in this re-discovery was mostly intellectual: the cracking open of the door to the possibility that this whole Christianity thing might not all be nonsense."
• "My Journey From Atheist to Maybe a Christian Pt. 2" — This post is a continuation of the discussion that began in an earlier blog post about my journey toward becoming a Christian. It picks up where the first left off.
• The 9 Books That Helped Make Me a Christian — I’ve broken these 9 books across 3 phases of my faith journey so far: discovering my faith, diving deeper, and learning to live it out. I am very much still in the midst of each of these steps, so if you have any recommendations please send them my way by commenting below or emailing me at alex@hallow.com.
• "Why We Made Hallow a Public-Benefit Corp" — No model is perfect, and the Public Benefit-Corp doesn’t solve all of our concerns. But after a lot of prayer and discussions with both start-up and spiritual advisors, we decided it was the best structure for Hallow. It gives us the best ability to build a world-class team and product, achieve our mission of helping the world to pray, and assure that growing profitably never comes ahead of our mission.
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Special Guest: Todd Hartch.

Links:

• A Time to Build Anew: How to Find the True, Good, and Beautiful in America — America is in crisis. This book is a response to that crisis. But it is not about politics as usually understood. It is not a diagnosis of cultural malaise. It is not a theoretical proposal or plan. This is a book of examples, of models, of how to live in America. The hour of criticism has passed. It is time for rebuilding. Catholics and all persons of good will need to create anew. For some this will mean writing beautiful poems or making beautiful works of art. For some it will mean sacrificial service of the poor. For some it will mean establishing schools and other Catholic institutions to replace those that have lost their way. For many it will simply mean building strong families. In short, this is a time to focus on the true, the beautiful, and the good, first through contemplation and second through building, making, and revitalizing. A Time to Build Anew provides models of men and women who have produced works of beauty in challenging circumstances, who have taught truth without fear, who have served the most vulnerable with great joy.
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Special Guest: Timothy Cardinal Dolan.

Links:

• Cardinal Dolan's biography — His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan was named Archbishop of New York by Pope Benedict XVI on February 23, 2009. He was installed as Archbishop of New York on April 15, 2009. He had served as Archbishop of Milwaukee since he was named by Pope John Paul II on June 25, 2002. He was installed as Milwaukee’s 10th archbishop on August 28, 2002, at the Cathedral of St. John the Evangelist. Archbishop Gabriel Montalvo, Papal Nuncio to the United States, installed Archbishop Dolan.
• Mass Readings for Friday, April 26, 2019 (Friday in the Octave of Easter) — Acts of the Apostles 4:1-12; Psalm 118; John 21: 1–14
• Video: Dedication Mass for the de Nicola Center — Celebrated and preached on April 26, 2019, by His Eminence, Timothy Cardinal Dolan in the Basilica of the Sacred Heart at the University of Notre Dame.
• Video: Dedication Ceremony of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture — Speakers include Timothy Cardinal Dolan (Archbishop of New York), Rev. John I. Jenkins, C.S.C. (University President), Dean Sarah Mustillo (Dean of the College of Arts & Letters), Christie de Nicola (Benefactor), and Keenan White (undergraduate Sorin Fellow).
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Special Guest: James Hankins.

Links:

• I Tatti Renaissance Library — The I Tatti Renaissance Library is the only series that makes available to a broad readership the major literary, historical, philosophical, and scientific works of the Italian Renaissance written in Latin. Each volume provides a reliable Latin text together with an accurate, readable English translation on facing pages, accompanied by an editor’s introduction, notes on the text, brief bibliography, and index. Presenting current scholarship in an attractive and convenient format, The I Tatti Renaissance Library aims to make this essential literature accessible to students and scholars in a wide variety of disciplines as well as to general readers.
• Previous Episodes of Ethics and Culture Cast — Ethics and Culture Cast features lively conversations with professors, fellows, scholars, and friends of the Center for Ethics and Culture. Episodes are released every other Thursday during the academic year.
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Special Guest: Fr. William R. Dailey, C.S.C..

Links:

• Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith and Reason — The organizing vision for the Notre Dame-Newman Centre for Faith & Reason is to create a space, a community really, in which a lively and intellectually rigorous engagement of faith and culture will occur in a spirit of civil engagement with modernity inspired by the example of Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, who built the Church that is our home. We hope through beautiful liturgy, inspiring preaching, and planned lectures and concerts to show that the faith in general and the Catholic faith in particular remain vital lenses for seeing all of human reality with clarity. We hope to build a community of informed and inquiring believers who are able to seek the truth with confidence and vigor, to speak the truth in love, and to integrate faith into their worldview, their work, and their engagement with culture.
• CEC Permanent Research Fellows
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• In respect for the sacred space of the church, we recorded the conversation with our voices barely above a whisper.

Special Guest: Katherine Smith.

Links:

• Sorin Fellows Program — The Center for Ethics and Culture’s Sorin Fellows Program provides Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College undergraduate and graduate students an opportunity to deepen their understanding of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition and examine the many ways they can be brought to bear on pressing ethical issues in culture and public policy today.
• Angelicum (Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas) — The Angelicum offers university education where faith and reason work together. It forms students as virtuous leaders, capable of evangelization and promoting integral human development. Illuminating the present by the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas, students, professors, and staff share in Dominican study, prayer, community and preaching.
• Pontifical Academy for Life
• Santa Maria in Vallicella (Chiesa Nuova) — In the heart of historic Rome, the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella, known as the Chiesa Nuova, the legacy of the life and work of St. Philip Neri, welcomes you.
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Special Guest: Mary Eberstadt.

Links:

• The Prophetic Power of Humanae Vitae — Full video of Mary's presentation at Notre Dame on March 20, 2018.
• Mary Eberstadt at The Catholic Thing — Mary Eberstadt's columns at The Catholic Thing
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Special Guest: Patrick Deneen.

Links:

• Why Liberalism Failed — Of the three dominant ideologies of the twentieth century—fascism, communism, and liberalism—only the last remains. This has created a peculiar situation in which liberalism’s proponents tend to forget that it is an ideology and not the natural end-state of human political evolution. As Patrick Deneen argues in this provocative book, liberalism is built on a foundation of contradictions: it trumpets equal rights while fostering incomparable material inequality; its legitimacy rests on consent, yet it discourages civic commitments in favor of privatism; and in its pursuit of individual autonomy, it has given rise to the most far-reaching, comprehensive state system in human history. Here, Deneen offers an astringent warning that the centripetal forces now at work on our political culture are not superficial flaws but inherent features of a system whose success is generating its own failure.
• Patrick J. Deneen at Notre Dame — Patrick's faculty webpage at ND's Political Science department page.
• Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture — The homepage of the CEC.
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Special Guest: George Weigel.

Links:

• Weigel's Full Bio at EPPC — George Weigel, Distinguished Senior Fellow of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, is a Catholic theologian and one of America’s leading public intellectuals. He holds EPPC’s William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies. From 1989 through June 1996, Mr. Weigel was president of the Ethics and Public Policy Center, where he led a wide-ranging, ecumenical and inter-religious program of research and publication on foreign and domestic policy issues. From June 1996, as a Senior Fellow, Mr. Weigel prepared a major study of the life, thought, and action of Pope John Paul II. Witness to Hope: The Biography of Pope John Paul II was published to international acclaim in the fall of 1999, and has since been translated into twelve languages, with a Chinese edition currently in progress.
• George Weigel Author's Page at Amazon
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Special Guest: Ross Douthat.

Links:

• Ross Douthat at the New York Times — Ross Douthat joined The New York Times as an Op-Ed columnist in April 2009. His column appears every Wednesday and Sunday.
• A Conversation with Fr. Julián Carrón featuring Ross Douthat, Ernest Morrell, and Paolo Carroza — Fr. Julián Carrón, author of Disarming Beauty, was be the featured guest at a discussion about his bestselling book. The roundtable featured Ross Douthat (Columnist, New York Times), Paolo Carozza (Kellogg Institute, Notre Dame) and Ernest Morrell (Center for Literacy Education, Notre Dame), followed by an author book signing. Disarming Beauty is the second volume in the Center for Ethics and Culture's series "Catholic Ideas for a Secular World," published by the University of Notre Dame Press.
• Who is G. K. Chesterton? (by Dale Ahlquist, American Chesterton Society) — I’ve heard the question more than once. It is asked by people who have just started to discover G.K. Chesterton. They have begun reading a Chesterton book, or perhaps have seen an issue of Gilbert, or maybe they’ve only encountered a series of pithy quotations that marvelously articulate some forgotten bit of common sense. They ask the question with a mixture of wonder, gratitude and…resentment. They are amazed by what they have discovered. They are thankful to have discovered it. And they are almost angry that it has taken so long for them to make the discovery.
• G. K. Chesterton's poem dedicated to Notre Dame: "The Arena" — The Chesterton party arrived at Notre Dame on the evening of October 4th, 1930. The lectures began on the following Monday. On Friday, the 10th, in the evening, the stadium was solemnly dedicated. Navy had come on for the dedicatory game, and Father O'Donnell was busy with them. He had told Johnny Mangan, the University chauffeur, to look after the Chestertons, and to see that they got into the stadium and that Mr. Chesterton had a seat on the platform from which the speeches were to be made. There were about twenty thousand people present, and when the students saw the magnificent bulk of Chesterton going toward the platform, they cheered wildly: "He's a man! Who's a man? He's a Notre Dame man!" Chesterton turned nervously to Mangan, saying: "My, they're angry!" "Angry!" exclaimed Johnny, "Golly man, they're cheerin' you!" Whereat Chesterton began such a fit of laughing and sputtering as almost to choke himself.
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Special Guest: Brad Gregory.

Links:

• Rebel in the Ranks — How Luther inadvertently fractured the Catholic Church and reconfigured Western civilization is at the heart of renowned historian Brad Gregory’s Rebel in the Ranks. While recasting the portrait of Luther as a deliberate revolutionary, Gregory describes the cultural, political, and intellectual trends that informed him and helped give rise to the Reformation, which led to conflicting interpretations of the Bible, as well as the rise of competing churches, political conflicts, and social upheavals across Europe. Over the next five hundred years, as Gregory’s account shows, these conflicts eventually contributed to further epochal changes—from the Enlightenment and self-determination to moral relativism, modern capitalism, and consumerism, and in a cruel twist to Luther’s legacy, the freedom of every man and woman to practice no religion at all.
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Special Guest: Sean Kelsey.

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