Feb 27, 2023 Jane Clark Scharl discusses her play Sonnez les Matines, in which a young Ignatius of Loyola, Jean Calvin, and Francois Rabelais, together in 1520s Paris, find themselves implicated in a murder. Publisher’s description (from Wiseblood Books): One Mardi Gras night in 1520s Paris, college students Jean Calvin (founder […]
Month: February 2023
The Catholic Culture Podcast: 153 – The Lost Radical History of the Pro-Life Movement
Feb 9, 2023 One might assume abortion has always been a hot-button topic in American politics since the Supreme Court ruling legalizing it in 1973. But that is not the case. The US pro-life movement was so non-robust for many years that by 1987, abortion was not even one of […]
The Catholic Culture Podcast: 152
Feb 1, 2023 Author and music critic Robert Reilly joins the podcast to discuss one of the greatest operas ever composed, Francis Poulenc’s 1957 Dialogues des Carmélites, which host Thomas Mirus recently saw at the Metropolitan Opera. Based on the true story of sixteen Carmelite nuns who were martyred in […]