Truth

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger argues that freedom must be understood in the context of interplay of reason and the will

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger asks if Christian faith is just lovely subjective consolation, a kind of make-believe world side by side with the real world

Listen to conversations with two guests from Volume 153, Margarita Mooney and Louis Markos, on the liberal arts and the importance of truth. (26 minutes

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the relationship between freedom and truth

Bishop Robert Barron talks about the necessity of persuading people that theological claims are about things that are objectively true, not just personally meaningful. (14 minutes)

Margaret Harper McCarthy, one of the authors of a brief on gender submitted to the Supreme Court, discusses the philosophical and practical implications of fashionable notions of the meaning of gender. (33 minutes)

Margaret Harper McCarthy, one of the authors of a brief on gender submitted to the Supreme Court, discusses the philosophical and practical implications of fashionable notions of the meaning of gender. (29 minutes)

Joseph Ratzinger on the partnership of faith and reason in the coherence of love and truth

John Paul II on how a loss of confidence in the reality of truth accentuates the will to power

James Matthew Wilson on the relationship between truth and love in Benedict XVI’s Caritas in Veritate

Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger on the apologetic necessity of holiness and great art

Terry Eagleton on the myth of the disinterested pursuit of truth

FEATURED GUESTS: Daniel M. Bell, Jr., Lew Daly, Adam K. Webb, Stratford Caldecott, James Matthew Wilson, and Thomas Hibbs

FEATURED GUESTS: Maggie Jackson, Mark Bauerlein, Tim Clydesdale, Andy Crouch, and Jeremy Begbie