Tony and Phyllis Lauinger

Meet the 2025 recipients of the Notre Dame Evangelium Vitae Medal, Anthony J. and Phyllis W. Lauinger of Tulsa, Oklahoma. The Evangelium Vitae Medal honors individuals whose outstanding efforts have served to proclaim the Gospel of Life by steadfastly affirming and defending the sanctity of human life from its earliest stages. Listen to them discuss a shared life of giving back to their state and local community.

The work of the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture is aimed at one goal: to share the richness of the Catholic moral and intellectual tradition through teaching, research, and dialogue, at the highest level and across a range of disciplines. In so doing, they enrich Notre Dame’s distinctive intellectual ecology—and they bring the University’s voice into the academic and public conversations concerning the most vital and complex matters of ethics, literature, art, music, social sciences, philosophy, theology, history, political theory, applied and theoretical science, public policy, and law.

This episode was originally published by the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture on August 29, 2025. To explore the entire library of Ethics and Culture Cast podcast episodes and for more information, please visit ethicscenter.nd.edu