Ethics and Culture Cast - Episodes Tagged with “Rome”

Episode 94: Rev. Thomas Joseph White, O.P.

Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture — Thu, 08 Oct 2026 13:30:00 -0400

Rev. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. is the author of several works of theology and specializes in topics related to Trinitarian theology and Christology, as well as grace and nature. He is the co-editor of the English-speaking journal Nova et Vetera, a member of the Pontifcal Academy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and a McDonald Agape Scholar. He plays the banjo and is a founding member of the chart-topping bluegrass band, The Hillbilly Thomists.

Special Guest: Rev. Thomas Joseph White, O.P..

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The Hillbilly Thomists — The Hillbilly Thomists are a band of friars of the Order of Preachers. Throughout the year they serve the Church in different ministries (as college chaplains, parish priests, theology professors…), but for a few weeks every summer they meet to make music together.
“Beauty, Wisdom, and Christ” Keynote Lecture by Rev. Thomas Joseph White, O.P. - Fall Conference 2026 — “Beauty, Wisdom, and Christ: A Trinitarian Perspective on the Human Vocation” by Rev. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., Rector of the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Rome). The Josef Pieper Keynote Lecture at the Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture's 26th annual Fall Conference.
Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) — The Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas in Rome, commonly known as the Angelicum, is a Dominican university with more than 800 years of history dedicated to studying, teaching, and preaching the truth revealed in Christ in the Catholic and Thomistic intellectual traditions.
Aquinas 101 — Are you asking questions like: Who am I? Does God exist? What is happiness? Who is Jesus Christ — and how is He present in the world today? St. Thomas Aquinas did, too. In seeking these answers, this saint and scholar not only transformed the Catholic intellectual tradition and Western civilization, but also illuminated fundamental truths that impact our lives to this day. With Aquinas 101, we bring St. Thomas's wisdom directly to you through short, engaging videos created by Dominican friars and professors from leading universities, including Harvard and Cornell. Whether you are a Catholic, a Protestant, or simply looking for meaning and truth, our team will walk you through Aquinas's timeless insights and help you find the answers you seek.
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The Thomistic Institute — The Thomistic Institute helps students and faculty engage with the Catholic intellectual tradition—drawing especially from the wisdom of St. Thomas Aquinas—so they can build a life rooted in enduring truth and share in that life with others.

Episode 21: Pete Hlabse

Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture — Thu, 13 Sep 2018 15:00:00 -0400

Pete Hlabse oversees the CEC's student programs, including the Sorin Fellows Program which offers intellectual, spiritual, and human formation opportunities to undergraduate and graduate students at Notre Dame, Saint Mary's College, and Holy Cross College. The program has grown under his leadership to encompass more than 200 student fellows, offering exclusive events, internships, and research funding across the disciplines and in every area of study at the university.

Special Guest: Pete Hlabse.

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Sorin Fellows Program — The Center for Ethics and Culture’s Sorin Fellows Program is a community of students at the University of Notre Dame, Saint Mary’s College, and Holy Cross College inspired by the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition and committed to pursuing the integration of their social, intellectual, and spiritual values in the context of their collegiate experience and in the discernment of their vocations.
CEC Staff — Meet the staff of the Center for Ethics and Culture.
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Episode 17: Katherine Smith

Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture — Mon, 16 Apr 2018 12:00:00 -0400

n this episode, we sit down with Katherine Smith, an undergraduate Sorin Fellow spending her Spring 2018 semester in Rome, Italy. We chat about her experiences in the Eternal City, her internship at the Pontifical Academy for Life, and what being a Sorin Fellow has meant to her. We recorded this conversation in the church of Santa Maria in Vallicella, also known as Chiesa Nuova, the "new church" that St. Philip Neri and his Oratorians started building in 1575.

In respect for the sacred space of the church, we recorded the conversation with our voices barely above a whisper.

Special Guest: Katherine Smith.

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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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Episode 10: George Weigel

Notre Dame de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture — Thu, 08 Feb 2018 14:00:00 -0500

In this episode, we sit down with George Weigel, the distinguished senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. We talk about several of his books including his most recent, "Lessons In Hope: My Unexpected Life with St. John Paul II," 2004's "Letters to a Young Catholic," and his wonderful Lenten vademecum from 2013, "Roman Pilgrimage: The Station Churches."

Special Guest: George Weigel.

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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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