181 - Beauty, Imitation, and Music - Daniel M...

Ida Friederieke Görres is little-known to English-speaking Catholics (except perhaps for her biography of St. Therese of Lisieux), but she was a major voice of the orthodox Catholic laity in mid-20th-century Germany, with Joseph Ratzinger giving her eulogy. Jennifer Bryson has tr ...  Show more

Thomas Mirus discusses Leo XIII's 1880 encyclical Arcanum, on Christian marriage. This was "the first formal and synoptic teaching on marriage since the Council of Trent" – a gap of four centuries. Arcanum is focused on what the Church has done to uplift and protect marriage thro ...  Show more

Art provides an immeasurable amount of awe and wonder and insight to our lives. This powerful tool helps us interpret the world in ways we never would’ve imagined and gives us the language to document it and make sense of it.

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We meet artist Jesse Darling. His multi-disciplinary practice, of sculptures, drawings and objects, considers how bodily subjects are initially formed and continuously reformed through sociopolitical influences.Darling (b. Oxford, UK) draws on his own experience as well as the na ...  Show more

This lecture was given on April 11th, 2024, at University of North Texas. For more information on upcoming events, visit us at thomisticinstitute.org/upcoming-events. About the Speaker: Raymond Hain is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Associate Director of the Humanities Pro ...  Show more

What does it mean to paint from the soul — and how can art become a vehicle for healing, connection, and legacy? In this special episode of Luca’s Insight Track, host Luca Allam sits down with Sacha Jafri, the world-renowned artist behind Journey of Humanity, the largest painting ...  Show more