• Ask Auntie Leila: Should My Child Have a Phone?
    Feb 29 2024

    Should children be allowed to have phones? How do digital devices impact children's development, play, social habits, and imagination? Auntie Leila tackles these pressing questions.

    • Like Mother, Like Daughter
    • The Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in Family Life
    • St. Gregory's Pockets
    • Ten Ways to Give Your Child the Gift of Purity


    Image: Elly Verstijnen, "Three children looking at a running dog," 1932, Rijksmuseum






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  • The Catholic Church on Slavery with Paul Kengor
    Nov 16 2023

    In his new book, The Worst of Indignities: The Catholic Church on Slavery, Dr. Paul Kengor explores the Catholic Church's longstanding opposition to slavery, tracing papal documents back to before the New World was even discovered. In times of heightened tensions, it is more important than ever for Catholics to know and understand the Church's historical stance on this issue and to be able to refute false charges against her.


    Image: Samuel Jennings, Study For Liberty Displaying the Arts and Sciences, or The Genius of America Encouraging the Emancipation of the Blacks. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, Karen Buchwald Wright Gift, 2016.

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  • The Chosen and the Fallacy of the Appeal to Worldliness, with Leila Miller
    Sep 8 2023

    Leila Marie Lawler and Leila Miller discuss their critique of the popular TV show The Chosen and the danger of using it in religious education.

    • Like Mother, Like Daughter
    • The Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in Family Life
    • LeilaMiller.net
    • "Christology matters. Reject the false 'Jesus' of The Chosen" by Leila Miller
    • "No, I will not be watching 'The Chosen'" by James Biesiadecki

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  • How Do I Teach My Child about Beauty?
    Jun 22 2023
    • Leila Lawler, The Summa Domestica: Order and Wonder in Family Life (affiliate link)
    • C. S. Lewis, The Abolition of Man
    • David Clayton, The Way of Beauty: Liturgy, Education, and Inspiration for Family, School, and College (affiliate link)
    • John Senior, The Restoration of Christian Culture
    • Podcast Episode: Choosing Children's Books (and Movies)


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  • The Surprising History of Irish Catholicism before St. Patrick with Connaught Marshner
    May 9 2023

    Contrary to popular belief, the great St. Patrick was not the first missionary to bring the faith to Ireland. Connaught Marshner probed into the earliest roots of Irish Catholicism and found that, long before Irish monks sent missionaries around the world, monks from Egypt (!) brought the faith to Ireland.

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  • Real Marriage Preparation that Works
    Apr 21 2023
    • God Has No Grandchildren:  A Guided Reading of Pope Pius XI's Encyclical Casti Connubii (On Chaste Marriage) – 2nd Edition  (affiliate link)
    • Casti Connubii (On Chaste Marriage) 
    • Like Mother, Like Daughter 
    • Read This, Not That: Books on Marriage



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  • Wars of Irreligion: 20th Century with Joseph Pearce
    Apr 21 2023

    Join us as renowned Catholic author Joseph Pearce, this year’s St. John Henry Newman Visiting Chair in Catholic Studies, lectures on the history of Christendom based on his forthcoming book, The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: History in Three Dimensions (Ignatius Press). Each lecture will weave the tapestry of the centuries with the goodness of the saints, the wickedness of the worldly, and the beauty of great art.

    This is the eighth and final installment in a series of lectures given by Joseph Pearce. This series is presented by Thomas More College of Liberal Arts together with the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture.

    Image: Knights of Columbus by William Balfour-Ker
    Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division, LC-USZC4-10131 (color film copy transparency)


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  • Revolution, Revelation and Revival: 19th Century with Joseph Pearce
    Apr 11 2023

    Join us as renowned Catholic author Joseph Pearce, this year’s St. John Henry Newman Visiting Chair in Catholic Studies, lectures on the history of Christendom based on his forthcoming book, The Good, the Bad and the Beautiful: History in Three Dimensions (Ignatius Press). Each lecture will weave the tapestry of the centuries with the goodness of the saints, the wickedness of the worldly, and the beauty of great art.

    This is the seventh in a series of eight lectures given by Joseph Pearce. This series is presented by Thomas More College of Liberal Arts together with the Center for the Restoration of Christian Culture.

    Image: Between Berlin and Rome by Wilhelm Scholtz-Kladderadatsch

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    47 mins