Friends, Patrick J. Deneen is a Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame and, I’d argue, one of the most thought-provoking and interesting political philosophers on the scene today. In our conversation, Professor Deneen and I discuss the failure of liberalism, the true meaning of freedom, the […]
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The Reality of Life After Death
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube.com. Friends, our first reading and our Gospel for this weekend have a special resonance for our time because they both speak clearly about life after death. Our dominant secularist or materialist ideology says that matter in motion is all there is; the world came […]
Star Wars: Humanity vs. The Machine
Source: Word on Fire via YouTube.com In this episode of Watch With Me, dive into the oft imitated but never replicated original Star Wars trilogy. Learn how the original trilogy’s representation of the Force goes deeper than the more recent Star Wars movies, and how the theme of machine vs. […]
Your Water into God’s Wine
Source: Bishop Robert Barron via YouTube Friends, this week we resume Ordinary Time, and the Church gives us this extraordinary story of the first sign of Christ’s divinity—the miracle at Cana. Why is the first of Jesus’ miracles turning water into wine at a wedding? Because Jesus himself is the […]