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The Catholic Culture Podcast

A weekly podcast hosted by musician and writer Thomas V. Mirus, exploring everything Catholic, with a special focus on arts and culture. Dedicated to the Holy Family. An extension of CatholicCulture.org.

Mar 24, 2022

Thomas Mirus reads his article "Fatima Today: In Defense of Private Revelation".

The first part of this article is a reminder of the essential importance of Fatima in our time. The second, and longer, part corrects a misunderstanding of private revelation held by many—namely that whatever falls into this category can...


Mar 18, 2022

Katy Carl, author of the excellent new novel As Earth Without Water and editor-in-chief of the Catholic arts journal Dappled Things, joins the show to discuss the novel and the state of the Catholic literary scene.

The publisher's description of As Earth Without Water:

When Dylan Fielding, celebrated contemporary...


Mar 10, 2022

Today's guest is Chase Faucheux, translator of a recent biography of Pope St. Gregory the Great. Topics include:

  • The very low point in Rome's history in which Gregory came of age
  • His being all things to all men in the city of Rome, as both a spiritual and temporal leader
  • His longing for the monastic life even after he...


Mar 4, 2022

This is a significantly truncated version of the original episode. Listen to the full episode here: https://www.catholicculture.org/commentary/126-how-charlie-parker-changed-my-life/

Thomas Mirus goes solo in this episode to talk about how his relationship to music was completely transformed in his late teens, by...