Sed Contra: A Podcast of Catholic Theology

To submit your questions about whatever for a future episode, email us at thequodlibets@gmail.com. Be sure to follow the Sacra Doctrina Project on Facebook and Twitter as well.

To submit your questions about whatever for a future episode, email us at thequodlibets@gmail.com. Be sure to follow the Sacra Doctrina Project on Facebook and Twitter as well.

In this Sed Contra podcast episode, the discussion centers on the Beatitude of God. The episode is hosted by Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., who is a monk of the Cistercian Abbey of Stift Heiligenkreuz in Austria and an ordinary member of the Sacra Doctrina Project, with fellow ordinary SDP member Urban Hannon who is a seminarian of the FSSP and a doctoral student at the University of Fribourg, and special guest Fr. Sebastian Walshe, O.Praem., is a Norbertine Canon of the Abbey of St. Michaelin the Diocese of Orange, California. For those interested, Fr. Sebastian has published an academic article that focuses on the beatitude of God. See Walshe, Sebastian. "Beata Trinitas: The Beatitude of God as Prelude to the Trinitarian Processions." The Thomist: A Speculative Quarterly Review 76, no. 2 (2012): 189-209. https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/tho.2012.0024.

On this the pilot episode of The Quodlibets, Urban Hannon, Taylor Patrick O'Neill, and Matthew Dugandzic introduce the new ask-us-anything podcast of the Sacra Doctrina Project, share their thirty-second life stories, and answer their colleagues' questions about study habits, literature, and Hans Urs von Balthasar. To submit your questions about whatever for a future episode, email us at thequodlibets@gmail.com. Be sure to follow the Sacra Doctrina Project on Facebook and Twitter as well.

Links: Donum vitae https://www.vatican.va/roman\_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc\_con\_cfaith\_doc\_19870222\_respect-for-human-life\_en.html Dignitas personae https://www.vatican.va/roman\_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc\_con\_cfaith\_doc\_20081208\_dignitas-personae\_en.html

Rev. Dr. Davison's recent book: https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/astrobiology-and-christian-doctrine/3F96E8C3EEA3B1C8832155BF261D4D31 Link to Rev. Dr. Davison's chart from his book: https://www.sacradoctrinaproject.org/july-2024-alien-soteriology or https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XUXgYWBe3014TSQwsy6p1OFWG2AIH\_zx/view?usp=sharing Poem reference: https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Poems\_(Meynell,\_1921)/Christ\_in\_the\_Universe

In this extended episode of Sed Contra, Urban Hannon and Joey Belleza discuss the Most Holy Eucharist and in particular transubstantiation with careful attention to St. Thomas Aquinas' articulation of this doctrine in the Summa theologiae III, q. 75.

In this Sed Contra podcast episode, Why Should I Care About Balthasar, join Sacra Doctrina Project members Dr. Kevin Clarke and Mr. Daniel Drain and special guest Dr. Mark Spencer as they discuss the relevance and importance of the works of Hans Urs von Balthasar.

In this newest Sed Contra episode join Fr. Cajetan Cuddy, O.P., Dr. Matthew Minerd, and Dr. James W. Stroud as they discuss the Quest for the Historical St. Thomas Aquinas, its roots and its impact on Catholic philosophy and theology.

Dr. Matthew Minerd, Pater Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., and Dr. Danny Garland discuss the life and work of Blessed Columba Marmion, O.S.B.

Dr. Kevin Clarke, Dr. Joseph Terry, and Dr. John Solheid discuss Maximus the Confessor and why Catholics should be familiar with his life and work.

Dr. Matthew Dugandzic, Dr. Taylor Patrick O'Neill, P. Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., and Dr. James Stroud discuss NFP, contraception, and the contraceptive mentality.

Dr. Matthew Dugandzic, Dr. Danny Garland, and Dr. Ryan Brady discuss the differences in Eucharistic piety among Roman and Byzantine Catholics. Includes an epilogue by Dr. Kevin Clarke.

The Nightmare Videos of Children's YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9EKV2nSU8w

Dr. James Stroud, Dr. John Macias, Dr. Taylor Patrick O'Neill, and Fr. Dylan Schrader discuss Pope Francis's 2015 Encyclical Laudato si', on the care of our common home.

Dr. James Stroud and P. Edmund Waldstein, O.Cist., discuss the watershed encyclical of St. John Paul II on moral theology, Veritatis splendor (The Splendor of Truth) as the Church approaches the thirtieth anniversary of its promulgation.

Dr. John Solheid and Dr. Kevin Clarke muse on Origen, apocatastasis, and the issues surrounding the issue with Fr. Dylan Schrader.

Thomas Davenport, OP, "Locating Heaven: Modern Science and the Place of Christ's Glorified Body," Nova et Vetera 20, no. 1 (Winter 2023): 93–114: https://stpaulcenter.com/05-nv-21-1-davenport/

Dr. Matthew Dugandzic and Dr. Ryan Brady discuss intrinsic evils.

Dr. Gaven Kerr discusses St. Thomas Aquinas's Fifth Way (from the governance of things) to demonstrate the existence of God.