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Podcast: AMDG: A Jesuit Podcast
Episode: Why Thomas Aquinas Is Really A Jesuit with Bill McCormick, SJ
Description: There are two temptations – at least! – that we often fall into when it comes to looking at our current state of politics.
On the one hand, we may be tempted to look back at some previous period and say, “Our political discourse was really good then; I wish we could go back.” We romanticize the past and ignore the challenge and struggle and oversights that we’ve muddled through to get to the present.
On the other hand, we may be tempted to look at our present state – our institutions, our ideologies, our political systems – and assume we’ve made nothing but prog...