Apr 24, 2026
Fr. Gregory Pine, O.P., joins the podcast to talk about his new book Training the Tongue and Growing Beyond Sins of Speech. He answers Thomas's questions about small talk, cheekiness, oversharing, the use of humor to avoid vulnerability, Millennial vs. Gen-Z irony, correcting others, and openness to...
Apr 15, 2026
This interview with Prof. Thomas Pink, originally published in 2020, is being republished as part of Thomas Mirus’s ongoing series covering the major encyclicals of Pope Leo XIII.
Vatican II’s Declaration on Religious Freedom, Dignitatis Humanae, begins by noting that its discussion of religious liberty “has to do...
Mar 18, 2026
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Mar 16, 2026
The darkest, and perhaps most underrated, story J.R.R. Tolkien ever wrote was the tale of Túrin Turambar, a great man of the First Age of Middle-Earth, whose life was ruined by the curse of Morgoth (Tolkien's Satan-figure) and by his own pride. The tale, which resembles a Greek tragedy, was given its longest and...
Mar 5, 2026
Pope Leo XIII's 1884 encyclical Humanum Genus is the Church's most comprehensive explanation of why, ever since 1738, she has forbidden Catholics to become Freemasons. Reading the encyclical today, one has the thought that its continued relevance has less to do with the present-day activities of Masonic organizations,...