What We Can't Not Talk About

Join us for a conversation (meditation, discussion, and reflection!) on the irreplaceable, indispensable, and unrepeatable identity of each one of us. In this episode, our guest, Christopher West, and our host, Dr. Marianna Orlandi, delve into the teleology of our reproductive natures — and the theology of our bodies for a much needed message! Theology of the Body Institute: https://tobinstitute.org/ Book: Eclipse of the Body: https://shop.corproject.com/products/eclipse-of-the-body-how-we-lost-the-meaning-of-sex-gender-marriage-family-and-how-to-reclaim-it Book: Love Is Patient, but I'm Not: https://shop.corproject.com/products/love-is-patient-but-i-m-not-confessions-of-a-recovering-perfectionist Pontifex Master of Sacred Arts degree, with a Concentration in the Theology of the Body: https://www.pontifex.university/page/show/339867

Who was Augusto Del Noce and why are so many people reading his books and talking about his philosophy today? Join us to find out! In this episode, Dr. Marianna Orlandi discusses the thoughts of this brilliant Italian philosopher with Professor Carlo Lancellotti, a scholar who has been translating Del Noce’s works in English —- while teaching mathematics and physics at the College of Staten Island & City University of New York! English YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/ihr-sn5dtyQ Italian YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/l2QCKC8OaiU Augusto del Noce on the "New Totalitarianism" by Carlo Lancellotti: https://www.communio-icr.com/files/44.2_Lancellotti.pdf The Religious Sense by Luigi Giussani: https://www.amazon.com/Religious-Sense-Luigi-Giussani/dp/0773516263/ref=asc_df_0773516263/?tag=hyprod-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=312154644197&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=13004758799616701499&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=c&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9028280&hvtargid=pla-320418201577&psc=1 Michael Hanby: https://www.johnpaulii.edu/academics/faculty/michael-hanby/ David L Schindler: https://www.johnpaulii.edu/academics/faculty/david-l-schindler/ Rémi Brague: https://www.remibrague.com/biography/

Taking the Soviet Union as a case study, economist Dr. Clara E. Piano analyzed the way in which an autocrat will deal with the family. Will it support divorce and abortion, or will it enact pro-family and pro-life laws? Tune in to find out: the answers will surprise you! Dr. Clara E. Piano's website: https://www.clara-elizabeth.com Dr. Clara E. Piano's work: https://www.clara-elizabeth.com/projects

Let’s begin at the end... The first episode of this new season is an engaging and provocative conversation on one of the most serious events of our human life: its natural end. Join in to listen to Dr. Marianna Orlandi and Lydia Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (ethics), author of “The Lost Art of Dying”. Link to our guest's book: https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Art-Dying-Reviving-Forgotten/dp/0062932632. More on Ars Moriendi: https://www.encyclopedia.com/religion/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/ars-moriendi

Dr. Marianna Orlandi and Associate Professor of Philosophy Dr. Melissa Moschella discuss parental rights, school choice, critical race theory, and the meaning of education in today’s world. Melissa Moschella is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the Catholic University of America, where her research and teaching focus on natural law, bioethics and the moral and political status of the family and Fellow of the Austin Institute. She graduated magna cum laude from Harvard College and received her Ph.D. in Political Philosophy from Princeton University. Her book, To Whom Do Children Belong? Parental Rights, Civic Education and Children’s Autonomy was published in 2016 by Cambridge University Press. Dr. Moschella speaks and writes on a variety of contemporary issues, such as brain death, end-of-life ethics, parental rights, marriage, gender, reproductive technologies, and conscience rights. Her articles have been published in scholarly journals as well as popular media outlets, including Bioethics, The Journal of Medical Ethics, The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy, Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, The American Journal of Jurisprudence, The New York Times, USA Today, The Washington Post, The New York Daily News, and The Public Discourse. Critical Race Theory, Public Schools, and Parental Rights https://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2022/03/79866/ Chesterton and the Meaning of Education https://www.ncregister.com/blog/chesterton-and-meaning-of-education

How did the world arrive at its current, disorienting state of identity politics, and how we respond? Historian Carl R. Trueman shows how influences ranging from traditional institutions to technology and pornography moved modern culture toward an era of “expressive individualism.” Investigating philosophies from the Romantics, Nietzsche, Marx, Wilde, Freud, and the New Left, he outlines the history of Western thought to the distinctly sexual direction of present-day identity politics and explains the modern implications of these ideas on religion, free speech, and personal identity. For more, order Dr. Truman's book, "Strange New World" https://www.crossway.org/books/strange-new-world-tpb/

Professor of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin and Senior Fellow of the Austin Institute Mark Regnerus discusses the science behind current issues around gender identity, such as affirmative care and the rise of gender dysphoria among youth. Especially in the United States, medical research has been affected by external political pressure and predetermined conclusions. Dr. Regnerus challenges what so much of culture is telling us to believe and encourages us to talk about these issues. Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EW1vetSl1rc

In this episode, we interview April Readlinger, Executive Director of CanaVox, on a recent article published in Public Discourse about the inclusion of gender ideology in K-12 public education in New Jersey. Mrs. Readlinger here discusses some of the troubles regarding the legislation that introduced this issue into the state’s public school curriculum and specifically explores the challenges it presents for teachers and parents alike in the instruction of their children. We hope that you find this podcast timely and useful when thinking about the education of your own children and the state of American public education in general.

Warsaw, Poland, May 18th, 2022: On the day that would have marked Karol Wojtyła's 102nd birthday and in the context of the international conference on John Paul II’s Natural Law Legacy & International Human Rights organized by Ave Maria School of Law, Dr. Marianna Orlandi delivered a talk focused on a play that the young Karol Wojtyła wrote long before becoming a Pope: "The Jeweler’s Shop." Tune in for some interesting insights and reflections on our age of no-fault divorce, on the beauty and true meaning of marriage, and on the way forward. Ave Maria Law website on the event: https://www.avemarialaw.edu/john-paul-iis-natural-law-legacy-international-human-rights/ YouTube Video: https://youtu.be/yAdX97aiKm0 Purchase the play via Ignatius Press: https://ignatius.com/the-jewelers-shop-jshh/

In this podcast, Dr. James Poulos discusses technology, media, and alternatives to the current technocratic-political order by a union between branding, patriotism, and an alternative theological vision, all the while exploring the link between modern gnosticism and transhumanism. Dr. James Poulos is the Executive Editor of The American Mind, the Claremont Institute's online publication devoted to driving the conversation about the ideas and principles that drive American political life. Dr. Poulos graduated from Duke University with distinction in Political Science and received his Ph.D. in Government from Georgetown University. The author of The Art of Being Free (St. Martin's Press, 2017), a study of Tocqueville's Democracy in America, he is also the contributing editor of American Affairs and a fellow at the Center for the Study of Digital Life. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yx_rQAkV_s0 Dr. Poulos's latest book: https://humanforever.us/