The Josias Podcast

Our hosts, Amanda and Fr. Jon Tveit, discuss Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical on Freemasonry, Humanum genus (1884), as well as its historical context and relevance for today. Bibliography: Leo XIII, Humanum genus (1884) Header Image: Constantino Brumidi, The Apotheosis of Washington (1865). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Our series on Leo XIII’s social encyclicals continues with Libertas praestantissimum. After some updates, our editor discusses Leo’s distinction between natural and moral liberty, and how this is manifested in his approach to the so-called ‘modern liberties.’ Bibliography Pope Leo XIII, Libertas praestantissimum (1888). Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., “Contrasting Concepts of Freedom,” The Josias (2016). Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., Divisio Textus of Leo XIII’s Libertas praestantissimum, The Josias (2024). The Josias Podcast, Episode XXIII: Liberty: the Highest of Natural Endowments (2020) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Our hosts, Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda, are joined by Dr. Daniel Lendman, Assistant Professor of Catholic Theology at Ave Maria University, for a conversation about Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical on the restoration of Christian philosophy, Aeterni Patris (1879). Bibliography: Leo XIII, Aeterni Patris (1879) Header Image: Andrea da Firenze, The Triumph of St Thomas Aquinas (fresco detail) (c. 1366). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Our hosts, Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda, are joined by Gideon Lazar for a conversation about Pope Leo XIII, his pontificate, writings, and whether there will be a Leonine revival under our newly elected pontiff, Leo XIV. Bibliography: Longinqua Oceani (1895) The Josias Podcast, Episode VI: Ralliement Felix de St. Vincent, “Four Catholic Political Postures: Lessons from Leo XIII and Ralliement” (The Josias) The Josias Podcast, Episode XXIII: Liberty: the Highest of Natural Endowments Gideon Lazar, “Why I am Whitepilled by Pope Leo XIV“ Pater Edmund, “Divisio Textus of Leo XIII’s Libertas Praestantissimum” (The Josias) Header Image: Biagio Barzotti, Pope Leo XIII with Cardinals: Rampolla, Parochi, Bonaparte and Sacconi (c. 1890). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

This week, we at The Josias were saddened by the death of Alasdair MacIntyre, whose contributions to moral and political philosophy cannot be overstated. He was profoundly influential in the intellectual lives of many of us here at The Josias. In his memory, we are re-releasing our September 2018 Podcast episode on his book, After Virtue (1981). Requiescat in pace. To view the reading list for this episode, please visit the original podcast episode’s post, here.

Our hosts, Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda, are joined by Pater Edmund and Fr. Joseph Hudson, OSB for a conversation about the role of the ordo amoris in Catholic intellectual tradition. Fr. Joseph Hudson, a Benedictine priest of Clear Creek Abbey, studied philosophy before entering the cloister in 2008. In 2019 he went to Rome to earn a Licentiate in Sacred Theology at the Angelicum, later teaching at Clear Creek. In 2023, he returned to Rome to pursue a doctorate. Bibliography: Fr. Joseph Hudson, “Ordo amoris: Love Has an Order, Not All Are Loved Equally“ Pater Edmund Waldstein, “Needy Immigrant, Nationalism, Globalism, and the Universal Destination of Goods“ St. Bernard, Commentary on the Song of Songs, Sermon XLIX–L (PL 183, 1016–1025) St. Augustine, On Christian Doctrine, I c.27 St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II q.26 Header Image: Dirk Jacobsz Vellert, The Vision of St. Bernard (1524) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Our hosts, Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda, are joined by Fr. Justin Cinnante, O.Carm., for a conversation about relics, their power and significance, and the full story of how Fr. Justin came to bless and present President Donald Trump with a relic of the True Cross. Fr. Justin is a Carmelite priest and serves as the Chaplain at Iona Preparatory High School. Header Image: Titian, The Vendramin Family Venerating a Relic of the True Cross (1540s) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

In this month of November, dedicated to the holy souls in Purgatory, our hosts, Amanda and Fr. Jon Tveit, are joined by Fr. Michael Barone, for a conversation about death, the importance of the funeral rite, cremation, and how today’s culture seeks to keep distant our own mortality. Fr. Barone serves as a Cemetery Chaplain in the Archdiocese of Newark, New Jersey. Bibliography: Ad resurgendum cum Christo (2016) Piam et constantem (1963) Header Image: Henryk Pillati, Funeral of the Five Victims of the Manifestation of 1861 in Warsaw (1865) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Our Editor, Fr. Jon Tveit, is joined on the podcast by Michael Thomas—the motivating force behind the new Catholic Land Movement—for a conversation about the Catholic Land Movement’s inspiration, purpose, and how puts that into practice. You may follow Michael Thomas on (the website formerly known as) Twitter, @MichaelTG09. Bibliography Fr. Vincent McNabb, O.P., The Church and the Land (1926) To learn more about the Catholic Land Movement, visit: https://catholiclandmovement.info/ Header Image: Eastman Johnson, Husking Bee, Island of Nantucket (1876) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

For the feast of Sts. Thomas More and John Fisher, Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined on the podcast by James Monti, author and historian, for a conversation on the life and example of St. Thomas More. Bibliography James Monti, The King’s Good Servant but God’s First : The Life and Writings of Saint Thomas More (Ignatius Press, 1998) St. Thomas More, The Sadness of Christ [De tristitia Christi] (1997) St. Thomas More, Four Last Things / A Supplication of Souls / A Dialogue on Conscience (2002) St. Thomas More, A Response to Luther [Reponsio ad Lutheram] – Book 1 and Book 2 St. Thomas More, The Confutation of Tyndale’s Answer – Books 1-4 and Books 5-9 Header Image: A follower of Hans Holbein the Younger, Sir Thomas More (1600s) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

As May—the month of Our Lady—comes to a close, Matthew Walther, editor of The Lamp Magazine, joins Amanda and Fr. Jon Tveit for a conversation on St. John Henry Newman and Our Blessed Mother. Bibliography St. John Henry Newman, Mary: The Virgin Mary in the life and writings of John Henry Newman (ed. Philip Boyce) Header Image: Sir John Everett Millais, John Henry Newman (1881) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Urban Hannon returns to the podcast to join Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda for a conversation about the virtue of religion—what it is theologically, and what it demands practically of us and our society. Bibliography St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II Q.80-81 Fr. Franck Quoex, Liturgical Theology in Thomas Aquinas (transl. Zachary Thomas) R. Jared Staudt, The Primacy of God: The Virtue of Religion in Catholic Theology The Josias Podcast Episode XIX: Justice Header Image: Jules Breton, The Blessing of the wheat in Artois (1857) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined by Deacon Harrison Garlick and Chris Ruckdeschel for a discussion on education, avoiding the pitfalls of the “Great Books,” and recovering the classical liberal arts. Bibliography Alcuin Institute for Catholic Culture Septem Artes Liberales Ascend – The Great Books Podcast Christopher Ruckdeschel, On the Nature of the Classical Liberal Arts Dcn. Harrison Garlick, “Avoiding the Unreal: How to Read the Great Books Well” Jeffrey Bond, “On the Modes of Teaching” (Part I; Part II; Part III) (The Josias) Header Image: Francesco Pesellino, Seven Liberal Arts (c. 1450) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Fr. Jon Tveit and Amanda are joined by Gideon Lazar for a conversation on Pope Francis’ Laudate Deum and a Catholic approach to environmentalism. You may follow Gideon on (the website formerly known as) Twitter, @ByzCat. Bibliography Pope Francis, Laudate Deum Pope Francis, Laudato si’ USCCB, “Global Climate Change” (January 2016) Gideon Lazar, “Ecology and the Theology of Creation” (The Josias) Br. Anthony Maria Akerman, O.P., “Reading Laudate Deum in Context” (The Josias) Pater Edmund Waldstein, “A Magnificent, a Wonderful Encyclical” Header Image: George Inness, The Old Mill (1849) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

In his final episode (pre-recorded prior to entering seminary), Urban Hannon is joined by Nathaniel Gotcher and special guest Prof. Philip Bess, for a discussion about the theological and philosophical foundations of urbanism—and how we should think about urban form. Prof. Philip Bess is a Professor at the University of Notre Dame School of Architecture. You may read Prof. Bess’s full academic profile here. Bibliography Philip Bess, Till We Have Built Jerusalem: Architecture, Urbanism, and the Sacred (2006) Professor Bess’s “Notre Dame Plan of Chicago”: https://afterburnham.com/ Daniel Burnham’s Plan of Chicago Supplemental information about the Burnham Plan Nolli Map of Rome Nathaniel Gotcher, “Urbanism and the Common Good” (The Josias) Header Image: Gentile Bellini, Procession in Piazza San Marco (1496) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Twitter and Facebook. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Urban Hannon is joined by Lauren Onak for a conversation about the American Solidarity Party, third-party politics, and harmonizing political with spiritual. Lauren is the American Solidarity Party’s Vice Presidential candidate in the 2024 election. Bibliography Lauren Onak’s Acceptance Speech for ASP VP Nominee, 2023 ASP National Convention. Header Image: A Pelican Feeding her Young, Ms. Ludwig XV 3 (83.MR.173), fol. 72 (c. 1270). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Urban Hannon is joined by Zac Mabry and Amanda for a conversation about the most memed and screened double feature of the year. Bibliography Helen Andrews, “Barbie: A Millennial Mom Movie” (The American Conservative). Nina Power, “Socialism or Barbie-ism” (Compact). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Archduke Eduard of Austria, of the House of Habsburg-Lorraine, Hungarian Ambassador to the Holy See and the Sovereign Order of Malta, joins Urban Hannon for a conversation on Bl. Karl of Austria, his family, and his most recent book: The Habsburg Way. Eduard Habsburg’s book, The Habsburg Way: 7 Rules for Turbulent Times, is available for purchase here.  Bibliography Charles A. Coulombe, Blessed Charles of Austria: A Holy Emperor and His Legacy. Death of an Emperor  Click here to listen to a video interview with Empress Zita.  Talk by Eduard Habsburg, “When Blessed Karl returned to Hungary.“ Header Image: Karl and Zita’s wedding, 21 October 1911.  If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Thomistic theology is rarely associated with liturgical prayer. So, in this episode, Urban Hannon turns the conversation toward St Thomas Aquinas’ mystagogy of the Mass—that is, his theological teaching on the meaning and purpose of its various rites. The handout mentioned in the episode may be found here. Bibliography St Thomas Aquinas, In IV Sent., d. 8, ex. In IV Sent., d. 12, ex. ST IIIa, Q. 83, a. 4. ST IIIa, Q. 83, a. 5. Header Image: Detail from ‘Mass of the 5 wounds of Our Lord,’ in the Da Costa Hours, Morgan Library MS M.399 (fol. 36v), c. 1515. Image courtesy of Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, Graz/Austria. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Urban Hannon is joined by Ed and Pat Smith for a conversation about Charles De Koninck’s unpublished course notes on the philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche.  Bibliography Charles De Koninck’s Course Notes on Nietzsche, which we have made available here. Header Image: Frans Francken the Younger, Mankind’s Eternal Dilemma – The Choice Between Virtue and Vice (1633). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Urban Hannon is joined by Fr. Hugh Barbour, O.Praem., of St. Michael’s Abbey, and Fr. Jon Tveit for a conversation on Charles De Koninck’s work, Ego Sapientia: The Wisdom That Is Mary. Bibliography Charles De Koninck, “Ego Sapientia: The Wisdom That Is Mary” in The Writings of Charles De Koninck: Volume 2, pg. 1-62. Translated by Ralph McInerny. For those without access to the McInerny volume, a publicly available translation by Ronald McArthur, a former graduate student of De Koninck’s, may be accessed here.  Header Image: Nicholas of Verdun, The Annunciation panel, Klosterneuburg (Verduner) Altar (1181), Stift Klosterneuburg. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

In his inaugural episode as Editor, Urban Hannon is joined by Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P. and Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. for a conversation about our Blessed Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ. Bibliography St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Ia q. 3 a. 8; IIIa q. 19; IIIa q. 45; IIIa q. 48; IIIa q. 50 a. 6. Bl. Columba Marmion, Christ in His Mysteries. Header Image: Fra Angelico, Mocking of Christ (Cell 7) (1440-42). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Urban Hannon, Matthew Walther, and the Rev. Jon Tveit join Pater Edmund to discuss the life, death, and writings of Pope Benedict XVI. Bibliography Jon Tveit, “The Liturgy and Society” The Josias. Jonathan Culbreath, “Her Sacred Enterprise: Liturgy and the Common Good” Peregrine Magazine”. Joseph Ratzinger, The Yes of Jesus Christ: Exercises in Faith, Hope, and Love. New York: Crossroad, 2005. Music: Mozart, Krönungsmesse, KV 317, Benedictus, Regensburger Domspatzen under the direction of Georg Ratzinger. Image: Stift Heiligenkreuz If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Urban Hannon’s “The Politics of Hell,” narrated by James T. Majewski of Catholic Culture Audiobooks. Header Image: Neil Packer. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Pater Edmund speaks with Pater Ælred Maria Anthony John Howard Davies, Subprior of Stift Heiligenkreuz, about the late Queen Elizabeth II. Music: Henry Purcell, Thou Knowest, Lord If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Contributors to The Josias and Ius & Iusitium pick their favorite movies and discuss them.  The result of the draft: To vote for a winner click here. Bibliography Tertullian, De Spectaculis (On the Shows) John Francis Nieto, A Study of Film. Music: Max Steiner, “Tara Theme” from Gone with the Wind. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Do rights exist, or are they moral fictions? What is the significance of the distinction between objective and subjective rights? In this lecture, Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. gives an account of rights and their relation to the common good. Bibliography and Links Hispanus, Petrus. “Notes on Right and Law.” The Josias (2017). Legge, Dominic O.P. “Do Thomists Have Rights?” Nova et Vetera, English Edition, 17.1 (2019): pp. 127–147. MacIntyre, Alasdair. After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, 3rd ed. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007. Pappin, Gladden J. “Rights, Moral Theology and Politics in Jean Gerson.” History of Political Thought 36.2 (2015), pp. 234-261. Pinkoski, Nathan J. “Alasdair MacIntyre and Leo Strauss on the Activity of Philosophy.” The Review of Politics 82 (2020), pp. 97-122. Rosenblatt, Helena. The Lost History of Liberalism: From Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018. Strauss, Leo. Natural Right and History. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953. Tierney, Brian. The Idea of Natural Rights: Studies on Natural Rights, Natural Law, and Church Law 1150-1625. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1997. Header Image: Giovanni di Paolo, The Creation of the World and the Expulsion from Paradise (1445). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

The debate on socialism continues, with Pater Edmund playing the socialist and Alan Fimister taking the anti-socialist side. Joel is joined by Chris to moderate the discussion. Bibliography and Links Leo XIII, Rerum novarum (1891) Pius XI, Quadragesimo anno (1931) Ernest Fortin, “Sacred and Inviolable: Rerum Novarum and Natural Rights“ Karl Marx, Theories of Surplus Value, ch. 9 Beatrice Freccia, “Aristotle’s Account of the Relationship of the Household to the State” Charles De Koninck, “The End of the Family and the End of Civil Society” Jacques de Monléon, “Short Notes on the Family and the City” Scott Meikle, “Aristotle and Exchange Value” Tři oříšky pro Popelku Music: Prokofiev – Cinderella Suite – Cinderella’s Waltz Header Image: “Das ist eine wunderschöne Wiese“ If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Alan Fimister comes on the podcast to debate socialism with Pater Edmund. For the purposes of the debate, Pater Edmund takes the socialist side, arguing that the injustices of modern capitalism, which orders all things to the private interests of capitalists, requires the adoption of socialism to subordinate economic matters to the common good of the political community. Alan Fimister takes the anti-socialist side, arguing that the individual and the family are prior to the state, and have the antecedent duty and right to provide for their subsistence, which requires private property. The debate is moderated (not entirely impartially) by Joel: There are no rules. Bibliography and Links Leo XIII, Rerum novarum (1891). Pius XI, Quadragesimo anno (1931). W. Borman, “Thomism and Private Property,” The Josias (2017). Thomas Crean and Alan Fimister, Integralism: A manual of political philosophy (2020). David Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 Years (2011). Henri Grenier, “The Lawfulness and Social Character of Private Ownership,” The Josias (2015). C.W. Strand, “A Catholic Socialism,” Tradinista! (2016). Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., “Robin Hood Economics: How should the wealth of the world be distributed?” Plough, 2019. Music: Дми́трий Шостако́вич, Jazz Suite No.2 – 6. Waltz II. Header Image: New Harmony, Indiana, as proposed by Robert Owen. Engraving by F. Bate, 1838. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Historicism seems to be a challenge to an integralist account of politics, because it denies that there is an unchanging truth about the human good accessible to our minds. In this episode the editors talk to Felix de St. Vincent and Brett Favras about Collingwood’s historicism, Leo Strauss’s critique of Collingwood, and Alasdair MacIntyre’s much more positive response to Collingwood and historicism. Bibliography and Links R.G. Collingwood, An Autobiography, 1939. Felix de St. Vincent and Brett Favras, “Integralism, MacIntyre, and Final Ends: Towards a Secular Account of Christian Politics,” The Josias, 2018. Alasdair MacIntyre, A Short History of Ethics, 1966; After Virtue, 1981. Nathan Pinkoski, “Alasdair MacIntyre and Leo Strauss on the Activity of Philosophy,” Review of Politics, 2020. Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History, 1953; On Political Philosophy: Responding to the Challenge of Positivism and Historicism, 2018; “Lectures on Plato’s Meno,” 1966. Music: W.A. Mozart, Die Entführung aus dem Serail, Act 3 “Nie werd’ ich deine Huld verkennen,” Les Arts Florissants under the direction of William Christie. Header Image: William Hogarth, “The Seraglio.” If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Our new technical editor, Chris, moderates a discussion with the editors of questions raised by our listeners. Nota bene: In the discussion of distributism at the 1:10 mark when Pater Edmund said “that’s what integralism is all about” he meant to say “thats what distributism is all about.” A slip of the tongue. Bibliography and Links Joel Augustine, “Dyarchy is Dyarchical: A Reply to Meador“Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice; Emma; Mansfield Park; Persuasion; Sense and Sensibility.Maurice Baring, The Puppet Show of Memory.Duane Berquist, Lectures on Ethics.John Brungardt, “Shorting the Market on the Common Good;” “The Question of Catholic Integralism: An Internet Genealogy.”Thomas Crean and Alan Fimister, Integralism.Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe.Charles Dickens, The Old Curiosity Shop; Barnaby Rudge; Martin Chuzzlewit; David Copperfield; Bleak House; Little Dorrit; Hard Times.Andrew Willard Jones, Before Church and State.Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels.J.R.R. Tolkien, The Lord of the Rings.Anthony Trollope, The Barsetshire Novels; The Palliser Novels.Walter Ullmann, The Growth of Papal Power in the Middle Ages.Edmund Waldstein, “An Education in Desire;” “The Soul in the Novel: From Daniel Defoe to David Foster Wallace;” “Reasoning is worse than scolding;” “On Weddings in Novels;” “Prayer Begins in Pointlessness and Stupidity;” “Don’t Even Try;” “You Will Be Honored in the Presence of All;” “The Way of the Cross and Real Apprehension of Sin;” “What it is Like to Celebrate Mass.”Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited; The Sword of Honour Trilogy; A Handful of Dust. Music: W.A. Mozart, Serenade 13 in G Major, KV 525, “Eine kleine Nachtmusik,” II. Romanze. Performed by the Camerata Salzburg under the direction of Sándor Végh. Header Image: “Hans Christian Andersen,” by Kirill Chelushkin. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Prof. Thomas Pink joins the editors to discuss Thomas Hobbes’s radical rejection of the scholastic understanding of law as a coercive teacher, and the anti-integralist motives behind that rejection. Bibliography Thomas Pink, “Suarez on Authority as Coercive Teacher,” Quaestio (2019).Petrus Hispanus, “Notes on Right and Law,” The Josias (2017). Music: J.S. Bach, Schafe Können sicher weiden wo ein guter Hirte wacht, from Was mir behagt, ist nur die muntre Jagd, BWV 208. Performed by Elisabeth von Magnus and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra under the direction of Ton Koopman. Header Image: Charles-Émile Jacque, Landscape with a Herd (1872). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

The editors discuss Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical Libertas praestantissimum, on the true nature of liberty—both natural and moral—and on the errors of the liberals. Bibliography Pope Leo XIII, Libertas praestantissimum (1888). “Contrasting Concepts of Freedom,” The Josias (2016). Music: Gustav Mahler, Lied Des Verfolgten Im Turm, from Des Knaben Wunderhorn. Performed by Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, and the London Symphony Orchestra under the direction of George Szell. Header Image: Raphael Statt, O.Cist. Beflügelter Schritt. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

The encyclicals Deus caritas est and Spe salvi raise two opposite objections against Christianity:  Christian love seems too altruistic, opposed to one’s own happiness; while  Christian hope seems too egoistic, opposed to proper concern for temporal society. The editors discuss these objections with New Testament scholar John Kincaid. They argue that a true understanding of the New Testament demands a full understanding of the common good (showing that love is neither altruism nor egoism, but communion in the good), and a deep understanding of the relation of the temporal and the eternal (showing that hope for  eternal happiness and peace does not make us indifferent to the temporal happiness and peace, which are a participated likeness of the eternal). Integralism provides precisely the account of the common good, and of the relation of temporal and eternal that is necessary. Bibliography Pope Benedict XVI, Deus caritas est, 2005. Pope Benedict XVI, Spe salvi , 2007. Brant Pitre, Michael P. Barber, and John A. Kincaid, Paul, a New Covenant Jew: Rethinking Pauline Theology, 2019. John Barclay, Paul and the Gift, 2015. Henri de Lubac, Catholicism: Christ and the Common Destiny of Man, 1947/1988. Charles de Koninck, “In Defence of Saint Thomas: A Reply to Father Eschmann’s Attack on the Primacy of the Common Good,” in: Laval théologique et philosophique (1945). Music: “Là ci darem la mano,” from W.A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni, sung by Barbara Bonney and Thomas Hampson, accompanied by the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra under the direction of Nikolaus Harnoncourt. Header Image: Max Slevogt, Don Giovannis Be­geg­nung mit dem steinernen Gast, 1906. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

We live in a society in which the few live in excess, while the many live in miserable and wretched conditions. We live in a society in which the poor are defenseless against the inhumanity of employers and the unbridled greed of competitors. We live in a society in which these evils are compounded by a devouring usury practiced by avaricious and grasping men. We live in a society in which innocent children are murdered in abortion clinics. We live in a society in which the sin of Sodom is paraded with open pride and enjoys the favor of the laws. We live in a society in which depravity exults; science is impudent; liberty, dissolute. We live in a society in which the holiness of the sacred is despised; sound doctrine is perverted; and errors of all kinds spread boldly. We live in a society in which the divine authority of the Church is opposed and her rights shorn off. We live in a society in which by institutions and by the example of teachers, the minds of the youth are corrupted. We live in a society… We live in a society? Do we actually live in a society? What sense does it make to call the clownish chaos of our lamentable times a “society”? The editors are joined by P.J. Smith of southern Indiana to discuss these and related questions. Bibliography and Filmography Henri Grenier, Moral Philosophy, §§ 1032-1036.Petrus Hispanus, “Notes on Right and Law,” The Josias, 2017.Pope Leo XIII, Rerum Novarum, 1891.Pierre Manent, “Modern Democracy as a System of Separations,” Journal of Democracy 14.1 (2003).Todd Phillips (director), Joker, 2019.Snowpire, JOKER – Starring George Costanza from Seinfeld, 2019. Music: “Vesti la Giubba” from Leoncavallo’s Pagliacci, sung by Luciano Pavarotti. Header Image: Joaquin Phoenix in Joker (2019) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Continuing a series of reflections on important 20th century critiques of modernity and liberalism that has included episodes on Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue and Leo Strauss’s Natural Right and History, the editors are joined again by Gabriel Sanchez to discuss Eric Voegelin’s The New Science of Politics. They discuss Voegelin’s critique of positivism, the problem of representation, and the thesis that modernity is “gnostic”. Bibliography Eric Voegelin, The New Science of Politics.Gabriel S. Sanchez, “MacIntyre, Strauss, and Some Voegelin.” Music: Also sprach Zarathustra, by Richard Strauss. Header Image: Photograph of a Tree in the Mist, by Pater Edmund If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Justice, according to St. Thomas, is the perpetual and constant will to render each one his right. Distributive justice, commutative justice, potential parts, quasi-integral parts, debt, cannibalism—in this episode, the editors cover it all. Bibliography Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IIa IIae qq. 58, 61, 79, 80Plato, The Republic, especially Book IAristotle, Nichomachean EthicsCarl Hoffman, Savage Harvest: A Tale of Cannibals, Colonialism, and Michael Rockefeller’s Tragic Quest for Primitive ArtDavid Graeber, Debt: The First 5000 YearsThe Paraphasic, “Notes on the Internet as a Social Space“The Paraphasic, “A Rumination on the Foundation of Civil Society“ Music: “An die Musik“, by Franz Schubert, performed by Matthias Goerne (baritone) and Helmut Deutsch (piano). Header Image: Circles in a Circle (1923), by Wassily Kandinsky (detail). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

The Josias Editors discuss punishment and the good of order in a teleological universe. Bibliography Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, II-II Q. 60; II-II Q 64, A 2; II-II Q. 108.Plato, Gorgias. Music: “Bin ich nun frei Wirklich frei,” Das Rheingold, Richard Wagner. Vienna Philharmonic, George Solti, Gustav Neidlinger as Alberich. Header Image: Alberich, by Arthur Rackham. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

Does natural law demand a world government? Bibliography Pope Pius XI, Ubi Arcano, 1922. Henri Grenier, World Government is Required by Natural Law, The Josias, 2015. Rafael de Arízaga, Sovereignty and the Supreme Power, Pax in Bello, 2019. Music: Johannes Brahms, Variations on a Theme by Haydn, Berlin Philharmonic, Gustavo Dudamel. Header Image: The Spanish Riding School in Vienna. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

The editors are joined by special guest Daniel to discuss the Resurrection of Christ. Along the way they explore what it means for Christ to be New Adam, the necessity and fittingness of the Resurrection, and the meaning of the Resurrection both as the cause of the order of human society and the principle of the life to come. A very blessed Easter Season to all our readers and listeners! Bibliography The Gospel according to St. Mark, chapter 16The Gospel according to St. John, chapters 20-21The Gospel according to St. Luke, chapter 3:23-38The Apocalypse of St. John, chapter 21Genesis, chapters 27-45The Epistle of St. Paul to the Romans (all of it)The First Epistle of St. Paul to the Corinthians, chapter 15St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IIIa qq.53-56Pope Benedict XVI, Spe Salvi Music: Heinrich Ingaz Franz von Biber, Missa Salisburgensis, performed by Vaclav Luks with Collegium 1704 Header Image:Matthias Grünewald, The Ressurection of Christ (detail from the Isenheim Altarpiece). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. We’d love the feedback. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

The editors return and deconstruct integralism by taking on the post-structuralism of Jacques Derrida, but in the end discover they were metaphysicians all along. Along the way, the discussion veers into Nietzsche, 19th century interpretations of Bach, internet meme culture, vaccinations and the anti-vax movement, Jacob Klein, David Foster Wallace, and so much more. Bibliography Roland Barthes, Elements of Semiology, 1916;Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text, 1973;Jacques Derrida, “Structure, Sign, and Play in the Discourse of the Human Sciences,” in Writing and Difference, 1967;Jacques Derrida, Of Grammatology, 1967;Jacques Derrida, On the Name, 1995;Martin Heidegger “Nietzsche’s Word: God is Dead” (1943) in Off the Beaten Track, 2002; Joshua Kates, Fielding Derrida: Philosophy, Literary Criticism, History, and the Work of Deconstruction, 2008;Jacob Klein, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, 1968 [Reprint: New York: Dover, 1992];Jacob Klein, “Phenomenology and the History of Science,” 1940; Claude Levi-Strauss, The Savage Mind, 1962;E. Milco, “Michel Foucault and Thomas Aquinas in Dialogue on the Basis and Consummation of Intelligibility,” 2013;Friedrich Nietzsche, “On Truth and Lies in a Nonmoral Sense,” 1896;Ferdinand de Saussure, Course in General Linguistics, 1916;Michel Serres, “The Algebra of Literature,” 1979;Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist. “Charles de Koninck, Jacob Klein, and Socratic Logocentrism”;Ludwig Wittgenstein, Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 1922. Music: Johann Sebastian Bach – Chaconne, Partita No. 2 BWV 1004 performed by Hillary Hahn;arranged for piano by J. Brahms for Left hand performed by Daniil Trifonov; Bach-Busoni performed by Benjamin Grosvenor;arranged for piano by J. Brahms performed on harpsichord by Jean Rondeau; Header Image: Franz Rösel von Rosenhof, Wolf und Fuchs. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. We’d love the feedback. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Many thanks to our generous supporters on Patreon, who enable us to pay for podcast hosting. If you have not yet joined them, please do so. You can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

A familiar voice returns after a long absence. Three voices discuss what it means to be brave, the cowardice of Dr. Proudie, the softness of clerics more generally, the brilliance of Monteverdi, and the exquisite comedy of Plato’s Laches. Bibliography Saint Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IIa-IIae 123-140. Plato, Laches. Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues. Anthony Trollope, Barchester Towers Music:Claudio Monteverdi, Sanctorum Meritis II, from Selva morale e spirituale (text) Header Image: Leonardo da Vinci, Dragon Striking down Lion  If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. We’d love the feedback. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. Podcast production is not free—if you would like to help us out or show your support for The Josias, we have a Patreon page where you can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be splendid.

«To reject natural right is tantamount to saying that all right is positive right, and this means that what is right is determined exclusively by the legislators and the courts of the various countries. Now it is obviously meaningful, and sometimes even necessary, to speak of “unjust” laws or “unjust” decisions. In passing such judgments we imply that there is a standard of right and wrong independent of positive right and higher than positive right: a standard with reference to which we are able to judge of positive right. Many people today hold the view that the standard in question is in the best case nothing but the ideal adopted by our society or our “civilization” and embodied in its way of life or its institutions. But, according to the same view, all societies have their ideals, cannibal societies no less than civilized ones. […] If there is no standard higher than the ideal of our society, we are utterly unable to take a critical distance from that ideal. But the mere fact that we can raise the question of the worth of the ideal of our society shows that there is something in man that is not altogether in slavery to his society, and therefore that we are able, and hence obliged, to look for a standard with reference to which we can judge of the ideals of our own as well as of any other society.» (Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History). Pater Edmund talks to Gabriel Sanchez about Leo Strauss’s defense of natural right against historicism and positivism. The discuss questions such as: Who is Leo Strauss and why should integralists care about him? Was he esoterically a nihilist? Why did he criticize Thomists? Is he better than Alasdair MacIntyre? Bibliogaphy Leo Strauss, Natural Right and History, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1953.Idem, “Introduction to Political Philosophy: Plato’s Meno,” Lecture Course, 1966. Idem, “An Unspoken Prologue to a Public Lecture at St. John’s [In Honor of Jacob Klein, 1899-1978],” Interpretation 7.3 (1978). Seth Benardete, Encounters and Reflections, Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002. Jacob Klein, Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra, Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 1968 [Reprint: New York: Dover, 1992]. Idem, “History and the Liberal Arts,” The Saint John’s Review 47.2 (2003). Gladden J. Pappin, “The Mutual Concerns of Leo Strauss and His Catholic Contemporaries: Passerin d’Entrèves, McCoy, Simon,” in: Geoffrey M. Vaughan (ed.), Leo Strauss and His Catholic Readers, Washington, D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2018, pp. 137-166. Gabriel Sanchez, “Have the Principles of the Right been Discredited? Leo Strauss’s Rome and Ours,” The Josias (2014). Idem, “MacIntyre, Strauss, and Some Voegelin,” Opus Publicum (2018). Music: Morten Lauridsen, O Magnum Mysterium. Header Image: Matteo di Giovanni, Massacre of the Innocents (detail). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. We’d love the feedback. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. P.S. Podcast production is not free—if you would like to help us out or show your support for The Josias, we now have a Patreon page where you can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be awesome.

In which, your hosts take aim at Frederick II (the other Frederick II), and discuss Prudence as truth and the distinction between false and true Prudence. Along the way they also touch on: Prudence as the Queen of the virtues; why Arnold Schoenberg (!) was a good artist; legalistic American bureaucrats in post-war Germany; and why man is not the measure of all things. They also get around to MacIntyre on managers (boo!) and Pieper on Prudence (hooray!). But they never do get around to that old radio standby, an exhaustive scholastic division of the virtue of prudence (listeners dying to hear a long disquisition on the ways in which “part” and “whole” are said will have to console themselves with the long digression on the transcendentals that did make it into the episode). Bibliography and Links: Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., “Reasoning is worse than scolding,” Sancrucensis (blog), Nov. 8, 2015; Josef Pieper, The Four Cardinal Virtues (1954); Charles De Koninck, “General Standards and Particular Situations in Relation to the Natural Law,” Laval théologique et philosophique (1950); James Gaines, “The Art of the Feud,” The Guardian; James Gaines, Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in the Age of Enlightenment (2006). Header image: William Russel Flint, Penelope Bringing out the Bow and Quiver (detail). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. We’d love the feedback. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. P.S. Podcast production is not free—if you would like to help us out or show your support for The Josias, we now have a Patreon page where you can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be awesome. Click here for more.  

In which your editors get brain worms, join a Bayou death cult, discover why they are “all like that,” achieve the goods internal to the practice of podcasting, and still find time to discuss Alasdair MacIntyre’s seminal work, After Virtue. Links The Josias Podcast, Episode VIII: Virtue Felix de St. Vincent and Brett Favras, Integralism, MacIntyre, and Final Ends: Towards a Secular Account of Christian Politics, The Josias (2018) Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist, The Mirror of the Benedict Option, The Josias (2018) If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. We’d love the feedback. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. P.S. Podcast production is not free—if you would like to help us out or show your support for The Josias, we now have a Patreon page where you can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be awesome.

Honking geese, Byzantine chariot racing, and a rousing discussion of the deep and essential connection between the liturgy and the common good—in this episode, your hosts are joined by Jonathan Culbreath and Doctor Peter Kwasniewski. Along the way, they discuss the liturgy as focal point for the common good in the church and in secular society, public versus private devotion, and compare Charles de Koninck’s defense of the common good against personalists and totalitarians with Erik Peterson and Romano Guardini’s defense of the liturgy against certain members of the liturgical reform movement. In the end the inevitable technical difficulties serendipitously keep the discussion on time. All this and much, much more! Music for this episode is the “Sanctus” from the Missa Honorificentia Populi Nostri, by Peter Kwasniewski. The header image shows church bells in Nowa Huta, Poland. Bibliography Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., “Politics and the Liturgical Movement,” Sancrucensis (blog), Feb. 8, 2014; Peter Kwasniewski, “A Defense of Liturgy as ‘Carolingian Court Ritual’,” New Liturgical Movement, Jan. 30, 2017; Jonathan Culbreath, “Her Sacred Enterprise: Liturgy and the Common Good,” Peregrine Magazine, April 11, 2018; Adrian Vermeule, “Liturgy of Liberalism” review of Lyszard Legutko , The Demon in Democracy: Totalitarian Temptations in Free Societies, First Things, Jan. 2017; Dom Karl Wallner, O. Cist., “The Profanation of the Sacred and the Sacralisation of the Profane,” Aug. 31, 2016; Erik Peterson, “The Book of the Angels,” in Theological Tractates; Romano Guardini, The Spirit of the Liturgy, 1918; Charles De Koninck, On the Primacy of the Common Good: Against the Personalists. If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. We’d love the feedback. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. P.S. Podcast production is not free—if you would like to help us out or show your support for The Josias, we now have a Patreon page where you can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be awesome. Click here for more.

How ought we to think of our common life as human beings created in the image of God? Do our modern habits of thought prevent us from understanding what was going on in the Middle Ages? And more importantly: can the Middle Ages help us to escape the errors embedded in our common life today and thus open a path towards unfeigned peace? What is sovereignty? Is it necessary for peace? How do nature and grace relate, and what follows from that for the relation of temporal and spiritual power? Pater Edmund is joined by Alan Fimister and Andrew Willard Jones to discuss the later’s book Before Church and State. Bibliography Andrew Willard Jones, Before Church and State: A Study of Social Order in the Sacramental Kingdom of St. Louis IX (Steubenville: Emmaus Academic, 2017). Francis Fukuyama, The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011). R. W. Southern, Western Society and the Church in the Middle Ages, vol. 2 of The Penguin History of the Church (London: Penguin, 1970). Adrian Vermeule, “Some Questions about Sovereignty for Andrew Willard Jones,” Mirror of Justice (blog), June 10, 2018. Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist, “An Integralist Manifesto,” review of Andrew Willard Jones, Before Church and State (q.v.), First Things (October 2017). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. We’d love the feedback. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. P.S. Podcast production is not free—if you would like to help us out or show your support for The Josias, we now have a Patreon page where you can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be awesome. Click here for more.

A freewheeling discussion in which our editors have a very TAC moment discussing the connection of the music of the spheres and the virtues, and then set out to discuss Aristotle’s Virtue Ethics, but somehow talk more about Plato. Important topics are covered such as, how much virtue does it take to refrain from throwing a baby from an upper-story window? Is there any sense in which Bertrand Russell has virtue? All this, and so much more! The editors had so much fun that the time slipped by without even getting to the supernatural virtues or the post-enlightenment revolt against virtue. Bibliography Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics. Plato, Phaedrus. The Republic. Meno. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, Ia-IIæ, Q 49-89 (“Treatise on Habits”). Summa Theologiae, IIa-IIæ, Q 47-122 (“Treatise on Prudence and Justice”). Summa Theologiae, IIa-IIæ, Q 123-170 (“Treatise on Fortitude and Temperance”). Duane Berquist, Lectures on Ethics. The Good, The Highest Good, and the Common Good, The Josias (2015). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. We’d love the feedback. Follow us on Facebook and Twitter. P.S. Podcast production is not free—if you would like to help us out or show your support for The Josias, we now have a Patreon page where you can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be awesome. Click here for more.

That Christ died for our sins is at the heart of of the Christian faith: “For I delivered unto you first of all, which I also received: how that Christ died for our sins, according to the scriptures” (1 Cor 15:3). But what does it mean that He died for our sins? How did Christ’s death save and redeem us? Prof. Michael Waldstein and Professor Timothy Kelly join the editors to contemplate the mysteries of salvation. The theme of today’s episode is closely linked to our project at The Josias, as we write in our About page, “A truly Catholic account of politics cannot be understood except with reference to the whole perennial wisdom of practical and speculative philosophy, and to the integral tradition of Sacred Theology.” Today we contemplate the “vertiginous heights” of Sacred Theology. Bibliography St. Anselm of Cantebury, Cur Deus Homo. St. Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologiae, IIIa Q 48. Norbert Hoffmann, “Atonement and the Ontological Coherence Between the Cross and the Trinity,” in: Toward a Civilization of Love, trans. Erasmo Leivo (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1985) 213-66. Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., Desire, Deicide, and Atonement: René Girard and St. Thomas Aquinas, Sancrucensis (2016). Michael Maria Waldstein, Harmony and the Scriptures: Lenten Reflections on Harnoncourt and Bach, First Things (Web Exclusive, 2017). If you have questions or comments, please send them to editors(at)thejosias.com. We’d love the feedback. P.S. Podcast production is not free—if you would like to help us out or show your support for The Josias, we now have a Patreon page where you can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be awesome. Click here for more.

Historian and theologian Alan Fimister joins the editors to discuss whether Pope Leo XIII was right to ask French Catholics to recognize the Third Republic. And more generally: does political engagement in modern parliamentary politics engender liberalism in Catholics? What form of government is best anyway? Alan defends the Lancastrian theory of the English Constitution as a mixed-form republic as the best. Bibliography Alan Fimister, Robert Schuman: Neo-Scholastic Humanism and the Reunification of Europe (Brussels: Peter Lang, 2008). Alan Fimister, Interview: Catholic Origins of the European Union Zenit (2008). Petrus Hispanus, The Primary Political Question: A Response to Milco on Liberalism, The Josias (2016). Pope Leo XIII, Au milieu des sollicitudes (1892). Roberto de Mattei, The Ralliement of Leo XIII: A Pastoral Experience That Moved Away from Doctrine, Rorate Cæli (2015). Pius VI, Quare lacrymae (1793). Adrian Vermeule, Ralliement: Two Distinctions, The Josias (2018). Felix de St. Vincent, Four Catholic Political Postures: Lessons from Leo XIII and Ralliement, The Josias (2017). Catholic Action and Ralliement, The Josias (2016). If you have questions or comments, please send them to [email protected]. We’d love the feedback. P.S. Podcast production is not free—if you would like to help us out or show your support for The Josias, we now have a Patreon page where you can set up a one-time or recurring donation in any amount. Even $1 a month would be awesome. Click here for more.