In Praise of Dispassion

This classic Platonic dialogue recounts Socrates’ courageous defense before his execution, revealing why so few attain true wisdom and how love of the truth can demand great sacrifice, uncovering timeless lessons on living rightly in a fallen world.

This classic Platonic dialogue recounts Socrates’ courageous defense before his execution, revealing why so few attain true wisdom and how love of the truth can demand great sacrifice and uncovering timeless lessons on living rightly in a fallen world.

Long before the dawn of Christianity, Stoic philosophers sought wisdom in the mastery of reason and ordering of passions. Explore how their vision contributed to the classical heritage received and transformed by the Christian tradition.

This course will explore how the seven major feasts of the Old Testament calendar prefigure and point to the Sacraments of the New Testament and how the salvific work of Jesus is richly and beautifully embedded in the Old Testament cycle of Holy Days.

This course will explore how the seven major feasts of the Old Testament calendar prefigure and point to the Sacraments of the New Testament and how the salvific work of Jesus is richly and beautifully embedded in the Old Testament cycle of Holy Days.

3,500 years ago, God freed his people from slavery in Egypt, but sadly, the journey became a 40 year pilgrimage of repentance. Join Fr. David Anderson as we seek to gain spiritual insight for our own lives from the lessons learned so long ago.

This talk will look at the nature of human dominion and work, the roles of tilling and keeping, and the importance of sacrifice in directing all things to their purpose in God.

Nowadays there are “new things” to address, and a new Leo in the papacy, but the timeless truths of Catholic Social Doctrine continue to inform the Church’s response to modern social questions.

Join the ICC to hear the compelling stories of the modern martyrs of Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East, and be inspired in our own lives by their heroic witness of faith.

In this lecture, Fr. Michael Ward surveys Lewis’s various approaches to war: the ways he found to cope with it and learn from it, and the virtues and vices that he thought it tended to prompt.