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Ave Maria in the Afternoon – July 16, 2024 – Hour 1

Marcus discusses how Our Lady of Mount Carmel can help heal the wounds of the culture. We also discuss the meaning of manliness with Nathan Schlueter and Joseph Pearce tells the story of the betrayal of Ngo Dinh Diem.

 

Marcus’ Monologue: Healing the Wounds of our Culture

Today we celebrate the Feast of Our Lady of Mount Carmel and there are many lessons about this celebration we can take in as we examine our fractured culture. Marcus discusses.

 

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What is “Manliness?”

For most of human history, the cultural and moral norms governing manliness were tacit and did not require much reflection. But that has changed. How do we understand “manliness” today? Nathan Schlueter joins us.

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Boys to Men

Nathan Schlueter is professor of philosophy and religion at Hillsdale College

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The Lost Mandate of Heaven: JFK’s Other Assassination

The assassination of President Kennedy on Nov. 22, 1963, was one of the landmark moments and one of the most remembered events in 20th-century history. The assassination of President Diem of Vietnam on All Souls Day, 1963, only 20 days earlier, is probably more important as a landmark moment but is largely forgotten. Joseph Pearce tells us the story.

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The Lost Mandate of Heaven: JFK’s Other Assassination

 

Joseph Pearce is the author of numerous literary works including Literary Converts, The Quest for Shakespeare and Literature: What Every Catholic Should Know. He's Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative, St. John Henry Newman Visiting Chair of Catholic Studies at Thomas More College in Merrimack, NH, editor of the St. Austin Review, and series editor of the Ignatius Critical Editions. Visit his website at jpearce.co.

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