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Katherine Harvey, "The Fires of Lust: Sex in the Middle Ages" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
36 mins; January 26, 2022
Brenna Moore, "Kindred Spirits: Friendship and Resistance at the Edges of Modern Catholicism" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
57 mins; January 20, 2022
Judith Herrin, "Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe" (Princeton UP, 2020)
56 mins; January 14, 2022
Dyan Elliott, "The Corrupter of Boys: Sodomy, Scandal, and the Medieval Clergy" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2020)
45 mins; January 11, 2022
F. Bruce Gordon, "Zwingli: God's Armed Prophet" (Yale UP, 2021)
29 mins; December 22, 2021
Tibor MartĂ­ and Roberto Quiros Rosado, "Eagles Looking East and West: Dynasty, Ritual and Representation in Habsburg Hungary and Spain" (Brepols, 2021)
47 mins; December 17, 2021
Benjamin A. Cowan, "Moral Majorities Across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right" (UNC Press, 2021)
55 mins; December 15, 2021
Cinthia Gannett and John Brereton, "Traditions of Eloquence: The Jesuits and Modern Rhetorical Studies" (Fordham UP, 2016)
63 hours 17 mins; December 14, 2021
Sean Brennan, "The Priest Who Put Europe Back Together: The Life of Rev. Fabian Flynn, CP" (Catholic U of America Press, 2018)
59 mins; December 01, 2021
Crawford Gribben, "The Rise and Fall of Christian Ireland" (Oxford UP, 2021)
40 mins; November 23, 2021
Charles Gallagher, "Nazis of Copley Square: The Forgotten Story of the Christian Front" (Harvard UP, 2021)
52 mins; November 23, 2021
Brandy Schillace, "Mr. Humble and Dr. Butcher: A Monkey's Head, the Pope's Neuroscientist, and the Quest to Transplant the Soul" (Simon and Schuster, 2021)
57 mins; November 19, 2021
Ambrogio A. Caiani, "To Kidnap a Pope: Napoleon and Pius VII" (Yale UP, 2021)
41 mins; November 17, 2021
Maria Jose de Abreu, "The Charismatic Gymnasium: Breath, Media, and Religious Revivalism in Contemporary Brazil" (Duke UP, 2021)
101 hours 54 mins; November 09, 2021
Theresa Keeley, "Reagan's Gun-Toting Nuns: The Catholic Conflict Over Cold War Human Rights Policy in Central America" (Cornell UP, 2020)
44 mins; November 09, 2021
Kristy Nabhan-Warren, "Meatpacking America: How Migration, Work, and Faith Unite and Divide the Heartland" (UNC Press, 2021)
59 mins; October 28, 2021
Stephanie N. Brehm, "America's Most Famous Catholic (According to Himself): Stephen Colbert and American Religion in the 21st Century" (Fordham UP, 2019)
37 mins; October 25, 2021
Sonja Tiernan, "The History of Marriage Equality in Ireland: A Social Revolution Begins" (Manchester UP, 2020)
53 mins; October 19, 2021
Judith Pollmann, "Catholic Identity and the Revolt of the Netherlands, 1520-1635" (Oxford UP, 2011)
54 mins; October 07, 2021
Peter Cajka, "Follow Your Conscience: The Catholic Church and the Spirit of the Sixties" (U Chicago Press, 2021)
44 mins; September 27, 2021
Angeliki Lymberopoulou, "Cross-cultural Interaction Between Byzantium and the West, 1204-1669" (Routledge, 2020)
53 mins; September 20, 2021
Stefania Tutino, "A Fake Saint and the Real Church: The Story of a Forgery in Seventeenth-Century Naples" (Oxford UP, 2021)
55 mins; September 15, 2021
Virginia Miller, "Child Sexual Abuse Inquiries and the Catholic Church: Reassessing the Evidence" (Firenze UP, 2021)
53 mins; September 13, 2021
David C. Kirkpatrick, "A Gospel for the Poor: Global Social Christianity and the Latin American Evangelical Left" (U Pennsylvania Press, 2019)
68 hours 6 mins; September 08, 2021
Gregory Bourke, "Gay, Catholic, and American: My Legal Battle for Marriage Equality and Inclusion" (U Notre Dame Press, 2021)
55 mins; August 27, 2021
Bonar L. HernĂĄndez Sandoval, "Guatemala's Catholic Revolution: A History of Religious and Social Reform, 1920-1968" (U Notre Dame Press, 2018)
74 hours 15 mins; August 25, 2021
John Christopoulos, "Abortion in Early Modern Italy" (Harvard UP, 2021)
56 mins; August 05, 2021
Margo Shea, "Derry City: Memory and Political Struggle in Northern Ireland" (U Notre Dame Press, 2020)
56 mins; July 23, 2021
CĂŠcile Fromont, "Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition" (Penn State, 2019)
50 mins; June 09, 2021
Frank Clooney on “The Scholar-Practitioner”
47 mins; June 09, 2021
Christopher Ocker, "Luther, Conflict, and Christendom: Reformation Europe and Christianity in the West" (Cambridge UP, 2018)
37 mins; June 04, 2021
Paul J. Contino, "Dostoevsky's Incarnational Realism: Finding Christ among the Karamazovs" (Cascade Books, 2020)
63 hours 18 mins; June 04, 2021
Ruth Roth on the Wisdom of the Catholic Church
38 mins; June 02, 2021
D. G. Hart, "American Catholic: The Politics of Faith During the Cold War" (Cornell UP, 2020)
38 mins; May 25, 2021
Virginia Miller and David Moxon, "Leaning into the Spirit: Ecumenical Perspectives on Discernment and Decision-making in the Church (Palgrave Macmillan, 2019)
58 mins; April 20, 2021
Eilish Gregory, "Catholics During the English Revolution, 1642-1660: Politics, Sequestration and Loyalty" (Boydell Press, 2021)
39 mins; March 25, 2021
R. Chris Davis, "Hungarian Religion, Romanian Blood: A Minority's Struggle for National Belonging, 1920–1945" (U Wisconsin Press, 2019)
56 mins; March 22, 2021
Michael J. Pfeifer, "The Making of American Catholicism: Regional Culture and the Catholic Experience" (NYU Press, 2021
75 hours 58 mins; March 09, 2021
Thomas O'Loughlin, "Eating Together, Becoming One" (Liturgical Press, 2019)
38 mins; February 19, 2021
Hannah Marcus, "Forbidden Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Censorship in Early Modern Italy" (U Chicago Press, 2020)
51 mins; February 16, 2021
R. Alan Covey, "Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World" (Oxford UP, 2020)
51 mins; February 11, 2021
Gwyn McClelland, "Dangerous Memory in Nagasaki: Prayers, Protests and Catholic Survivor Narratives" (Routledge, 2019)
61 hours 20 mins; February 07, 2021
Leela Prasad, "The Audacious Raconteur: Sovereignty and Storytelling in Colonial India" (Cornell UP, 2020)
33 mins; December 09, 2020
Glenn Sauer, "Points of Contact: Science, Religion, and the Search for Truth" (Orbis Books, 2020)
57 mins; December 02, 2020
Tom Rastrelli, "Confessions of a Gay Priest: A Memoir of Sex, Love, Abuse, and Scandal in the Catholic Seminary" (U Iowa Press, 2020)
61 hours 16 mins; November 30, 2020
Jason Keith Fernandes, "Citizenship in a Caste Polity: Religion, Language and Belonging in Goa" (Orient BlackSwan, 2020)
58 mins; November 27, 2020
Stefan Bauer, "The Invention of Papal History: Onofrio Panvinio between Renaissance and Catholic Reform" (Oxford UP, 2020)
32 mins; October 19, 2020
Harrison Perkins, "Catholicity and the Covenant of Works: James Ussher and the Reformed Tradition" (Oxford UP, 2020)
31 mins; October 06, 2020
John Loughlin, "Human Dignity in the Judaeo-Christian Tradition" (Bloomsbury Academic, 2019)
74 hours 16 mins; October 06, 2020
David TavĂĄrez, "The Invisible War: Indigenous Devotions, Discipline, and Dissent in Colonial Mexico" (Stanford UP, 2011)
61 hours 25 mins; October 01, 2020
Deborah E. Kanter, "Chicago CatĂłlico: Making Catholic Parishes Mexican" (U Illinois Press, 2020)
45 mins; August 11, 2020
Francis J. Beckwith, "Never Doubt Thomas: The Catholic Aquinas as Evangelical and Protestant" (Baylor UP, 2019)
84 hours 30 mins; August 07, 2020
David TavĂĄrez, "Words and Worlds Turned Around: Indigenous Christianities in Colonial Latin America" (U Colorado Press, 2017)
89 hours 15 mins; August 06, 2020
Melissa J. Wilde, "Birth Control Battles: How Race and Class Divided American Religion" (U California Press, 2020)
65 hours 21 mins; August 03, 2020
42 Recall This Buck 2: Peter Brown on wealth, charity and managerial bishops in early Christianity (JP)
48 mins; July 30, 2020
Sohrab Ahmari, "From Fire, by Water: My Journey to the Catholic Faith" (Ignatius Press, 2019)
63 hours 33 mins; July 08, 2020
Natalie Kimball, "An Open Secret: The History of Unwanted Pregnancy and Abortion in Modern Bolivia" (Rutgers UP, 2020)
71 hours 39 mins; June 23, 2020
John D. Caputo, "Hoping Against Hope" (Fortress Press, 2015)
76 hours 36 mins; May 15, 2020
Brian A. Stauffer, "Victory on Earth or in Heaven: Mexico’s Religionero Rebellion" (U New Mexico Press, 2019)
62 hours 15 mins; April 09, 2020
Robert P. George and R. J. Snell, "Mind, Heart, and Soul: Intellectuals and the Path to Rome" (TAN Books, 2018)
49 mins; March 23, 2020
Michael O’Sullivan, "Disruptive Power: Catholic Women, Miracles, and Politics in Modern Germany, 1918-1965" (U Toronto Press, 2018)
77 hours 56 mins; March 13, 2020
Mario T. GarcĂ­a, "Father Luis Olivares, A Biography: Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles" (UNC Press, 2018)
68 hours 30 mins; February 11, 2020
Tim Perry, "The Theology of Benedict XVI: A Protestant Appreciation" (Lexham Press, 2019)
31 mins; January 02, 2020
Giuliana Chamedes, "A Twentieth-Century Crusade: The Vatican’s Battle to Remake Christian Europe" (Harvard UP, 2019)
70 hours 35 mins; December 18, 2019
Fran Altvater, "Sacramental Theology and the Decoration of Baptismal Fonts" (Cambridge Scholars, 2017)
33 mins; December 13, 2019
Jim Clarke, "Science Fiction and Catholicism: The Rise and Fall of the Robot Papacy" (Gylphi, 2019)
42 mins; November 08, 2019
Eugene Schlesinger, "Sacrificing the Church: Mass, Mission, and Ecumenism" (Fortress, 2019)
55 mins; November 05, 2019
Julia Young, "Mexican Exodus: Emigrants, Exiles, and Refugees of the Cristero War" (Oxford UP, 2019)
52 mins; October 23, 2019
Hans Boersma, "Seeing God: The Beatific Vision in Christian Tradition" (Eerdmans, 2018)
50 mins; October 03, 2019
Nora Jaffary, "Reproduction and its Discontents in Mexico: Childbirth and Contraception from 1750 to 1905" (UNC Press, 2016)
70 hours 19 mins; September 26, 2019
Peter Jan Margry, "The Miracle of Amsterdam: Biography of a Contested Devotion" (U Notre Dame, 2019)
66 hours 19 mins; July 31, 2019
Ricardo Cubas Ramacciotti, "The Politics of Religion and the Rise of Social Catholicism in Peru (1884-1935)" (Brill, 2018)
58 mins; July 23, 2019
Robert Louis Wilken, "Liberty in the Things of God: The Christian Origins of Religious Freedom" (Yale UP, 2019)
62 hours 49 mins; July 10, 2019
Jeffrey T. Zalar, "Reading and Rebellion in Catholic Germany, 1770-1914" (Cambridge UP, 2019)
61 hours 50 mins; June 25, 2019
Paul Ramírez, "Enlightened Immunity: Mexico’s Experiments with Disease Prevention in the Age of Reason" (Stanford UP, 2018)
57 mins; June 24, 2019
Cindy Yik-Yi Chu, "The Chinese Sisters of the Precious Blood and the Evolution of the Catholic Church" (Palgrave, 2016)
41 mins; June 03, 2019
Tricia Bruce, "Parish and Place: Making Room for Diversity in the American Catholic Church" (Oxford UP, 2017)
41 mins; April 24, 2019
Kevin Ingram, "Converso Non-Conformism in Early Modern Spain: Bad Blood and Faith from Alonso de Cartagena to Diego VelĂĄzquez" (Palgrave, 2018)
35 mins; February 07, 2019
Dagmar Herzog, "Unlearning Eugenics: Sexuality, Reproduction, and Disability in Post-Nazi Europe" (U Wisconsin Press, 2018)
42 mins; January 25, 2019
Tracy Fessenden, “Religion Around Billie Holiday” (Penn State UP, 2018)
61 hours 19 mins; November 14, 2018
Lev Weitz, “Between Christ and Caliph: Law, Marriage, and Christian Community in Early Islam” (U Pennsylvania Press, 2018)
65 hours 54 mins; September 04, 2018
Joseph Sciorra, “Built with Faith: Italian American Imagination and Catholic Material Culture in NYC” (U Tennessee Press, 2018)
63 hours 22 mins; May 08, 2018
Tatyana V. Bakhmetyeva, “Mother of the Church” (Northern Illinois UP, 2016)
53 mins; March 14, 2018
James Chappel, “Catholic Modern: The Challenge of Totalitarianism and the Remaking of the Church” (Harvard UP, 2018)
54 mins; March 07, 2018
Mark Edward Ruff, “The Battle for the Catholic Past in Germany, 1945-1980” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
65 hours 21 mins; February 21, 2018
Marie Griffith, “Moral Combat: How Sex Divided American Christians and Fractured American Politics” (Basic Books, 2017)
57 mins; February 20, 2018
Andrew R. Lewis, “The Rights Turn in Conservative Christian Politics: How Abortion Transformed the Culture Wars” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
28 mins; November 06, 2017
Adrian Reimers, “Hell and the Mercy of God” (Catholic U. of America Press, 2017)
54 mins; August 26, 2017
Did the Protestant Reformation Have to Happen?
56 mins; July 21, 2017
Peter Marshall, “Heretics and Believers: A History of the English Reformation” (Yale UP, 2017)
49 mins; June 19, 2017
Gregory Reichberg, “Thomas Aquinas on War and Peace” (Cambridge UP, 2017)
77 hours 29 mins; May 30, 2017
Patrick J. Hayes, “The Civil War Diary of Rev. James Sheeran, Confederate Chaplain and Redemptorist” (Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2016)
57 mins; May 23, 2017
Don Baker, “Catholics and Anti-Catholicism in Choson Korea” (U. Hawaii Press, 2017)
59 mins; May 16, 2017
Elizabeth Hayes Alvarez, “The Valiant Woman: The Virgin Mary in Nineteenth-Century American Culture” (UNC Press, 2016)
63 hours 3 mins; March 16, 2017
Garrison Nelson, “John William McCormack: A Political Biography” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2017)
75 hours 43 mins; March 16, 2017
Piotr Kosicki, “Vatican II Behind the Iron Curtain” (Catholic Univ. of America Press, 2016)
66 hours 31 mins; February 01, 2017
Matthew Pehl, “The Making of Working-Class Religion” (U. Illinois Press, 2016)
56 mins; January 13, 2017
Fr. Gary Selin, “Priestly Celibacy: Theological Foundations” (Catholic UP, 2016)
52 mins; January 05, 2017
Michael Brown, “The Irish Enlightenment” (Harvard UP, 2015)
51 mins; December 13, 2016
Robert Orsi, “History and Presence” (Harvard UP, 2016)
52 mins; October 14, 2016
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