Evangelization & Culture Podcast

What happens when a young writer with a graduate degree finds himself out of work, out of money, yet insatiably hungry for purpose? If you are Joshua Hren, you launch Wiseblood Books, a burgeoning publishing company that champions creative, award-winning fiction of great sublimity and Catholic sensibility. Join us as we explore the art of Catholic publishing with Dr. Joshua Hren.   Stay up-to-date...

What Belarusian Svetlana Alexievich observed, upon winning the Nobel Prize for Literature, could as easily be ascribed to the Russian novelists: "Suffering is our capital, our national resource. . . Not oil or gas—but suffering." What is it about Dostoevsky and Tolstoy, Chekhov and Turgenev that so keenly wrestles with suffering and the human soul? Dr. Gary Saul Morson, a scholar of Russian litera...

Living as a young man under Nazi occupation, a priest enduring Communist oppression, and a pope in an unbelievable world, St. John Paul II was no stranger to suffering. Eminent thinker and papal biographer, George Weigel, insists that John Paul II was a towering spiritual father because he "knew suffering from the inside." Join us as we explore what St. John Paul II can teach us about faith and su...

Catholicism engages everything . In the Evangelization & Culture Podcast , Tod Worner discusses faith and politics, history and literature, art and humor, work and leisure—everything. Catholicism is the joyful secret meant to be shared—with everyone, everywhere, and for all time. In each episode, you'll hear stimulating conversation with renowned intellectuals of our time. Tod also shares a reflec...