Centre for Catholic Studies Podcast

Prof. Staf Hellemans (Tilburg University) The Winds of Change in the Catholic Church: A Sociologist’s View 8 June 2017

Prof. Christoph Hübenthal (Radboud University, The Netherlands) The Theological Relevance of the Secular 15 June 2017

Catherine Pepinster (former editor of The Tablet) The Keys and The Kingdom: The British and the Papacy from John Paul II to Francis 2 November 2017

Prof. Neil Ormerod (Australian Catholic University) How the Trinitarian God Acts in Creation: Augustine, Aquinas and Lonergan 15 November 2017

--About the Lecture By 1947, the year of his first visit to America, Evelyn Waugh had wounded most of his friends. He had tried to bully John Betjeman and Lady Diana Cooper into Catholicism; he had condemned Olivia Plunket-Greene, the woman who had brought him to the Church, as a traitor to the faith; he had lampooned Cyril Connolly in mordant literary reviews. When, two years later, Nancy Mitford...

-About the Lecture Globalisation, the economic crash of 2008 and a migration crisis have triggered a crisis in western European societies. From Brexiting Britain to an Italy where nationalism is resurgent, the far right is mobilising a romantic politics of place and identity, which is hostile to the outsider. How can progressive thought fight back? --About the Series The Ushaw Lecture Series celeb...

--About the Lecture Is Christ's Beatific Vision Defensible Today? Seminar by Dr Simon Francis Gaine (Blackfriars Hall, University of Oxford) --About the Series This talk is part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series, a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Catholic traditions of theology and Church. The seminar series ranges across the traditional theological...

--About the Lecture Christ, the Light of Our Lives; Or 'What Do the Ox and the Ass Get Out of Christmas?' Prof. Janet Soskice (University of Cambridge) Christmas is about gifts and giving – something that has not been lost on a commercial world that increasingly pushes the religious significance of Christmas to the sidelines. Through consideration of story, picture and song, the lecture will consi...

--About the Lecture Seminar by Dr Amy Daughton (Margaret Beaufort Institute of Theology, Cambridge) --About the Series This talk is part of the Catholic Theology Research Seminar Series, a regular forum for scholarly discussion of pertinent issues in the Catholic traditions of theology and Church. The seminar series ranges across the traditional theological disciplines (scriptural, historical, phi...

--About the Lecture Two Catholic professors of English literature made remarkable and prophetic contributions to our understanding of how deeply we are influenced by the communication media we use. Assuming no prior knowledge of their work, this lecture will introduce key insights from the devout Canadian layman Marshall McLuhan (1911 – 1980) and the American Jesuit priest Walter Ong (1912 – 2003)...

‘The Good Life and the Good Society': University Students and High Security Prisoners Cultivating the Common Good by Dr Elizabeth Phillips (Westcott House, University of Cambridge)

Teleology, Intention and the Doctrine of Creation by Prof. Simon Oliver (Durham University) Inaugural Teilhard Seminar, supported by the British Teilhard Network

'What is the Point of our Praising the Saints?' The Convergence of Theory and Practice in 12th Century Saints' Cults by Dr Sigbjorn Sonnesyn (Durham University)

Parishes and Placemaking: Observations from the Making (and Unmaking) of Catholicism in Modern Communities by Dr Tricia Bruce (Maryville College, Tennessee)