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Hitchcock in London: Alfred Hitchcock’s “Sabotage”

In the last week of our Hitchcock in London book club, we examine "Sabotage," (1936) the film he adapted from Joseph Conrad’s novel "The Secret Agent" (1907). The film makes...

Religion and Philosophy

Everyday Holiness: Lou Holtz

“Significance is when you help other people be successful, and when you do that, that lasts many a lifetime.” Catch up with former Notre Dame Head Football Coach Lou Holtz as...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Sep. 06, 2024
Religion and Philosophy

Everyday Holiness: Fr. Pete McCormick, CSC

“It is by the grace of God that I have continued to this point, and that is increasingly what I need to rely upon in order to continue this vocation.” Fr. Pete McCormick, CSC,...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Aug. 02, 2024

Literature & Film in Lockdown – Introduction: Literature and Plague

This week Professor Barry McCrea introduces the topic of the course by taking a long historical perspective on pandemics in society. Mass outbreaks of contagious illness have been...

Literature & Film in Lockdown – Boccaccio, “The Decameron” (Introduction & First Story)

The bubonic plague (“Black Death”), which arrived in Italy from China in 1347, killed between a third and half of the Eurasian population. In Boccaccio’s "The Decameron"...

Literature & Film in Lockdown – Hitchcock, “Rear Window” (film)

Although Alfred Hitchcock’s "Rear Window" (1954) does not take place in the context of a plague, it is a film about being in lockdown. Its preoccupations may be subtly shaped by...

Literature & Film in Lockdown – Camus, “The Plague”

Albert Camus’s novel "The Plague" (La peste), published in 1947, tells the story of a group of characters living through an outbreak of contagious disease in the 1940s, in the...

Religion and Philosophy

Religious Pluralism

Under the conditions of globalization, more religious people than ever find themselves in close contact with members of other religious traditions. Our hosts convene in this...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Jun. 12, 2026
Religion and Philosophy

Everyday Holiness: Fr. Dan Groody, C.S.C.

“God is not just someone to make intellectual assent to in our minds but someone to encounter into the depths of our heart. And if we are not able to make that migration, then...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Apr. 05, 2024
Religion and Philosophy

The Jewishness of the New Testament

This episode we welcome a distinguished New Testament scholar, Amy Jill Levine, who is the world expert on the Jewishness of the New Testament. She engages questions like, Why are...

12:00 PM ET Fri., May. 08, 2026
Religion and Philosophy

Everyday Holiness: Deacon Mel & Ann Tardy

“When the Church addresses those things, people feel like they’re welcome, that the Church is relevant. When the Church fails to address those things, people feel like,...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Feb. 07, 2025
Religion and Philosophy

Qur’an Criticism

What importance do developments in critical scholarship on the Qur’an have for the life of faith? How have Muslims traditionally understood the Qur’an? What were the...

12:00 PM ET Fri., Apr. 10, 2026