Prof. Patrick Callahan

Oct. 24, 2025

Catholic Culture with Tolkien – Prof. Patrick Callahan

Prof. Patrick Callahan explores the living tradition of Catholic culture, using Tolkien’s life and imagination to demonstrate how the Mass, community, and cultivation of virtue form a unified Christian identity resilient amidst modern challenges.
Guest: Prof. Patrick Callahan
May 2, 2025

Aquinas the Wordsmith: The Hymns and Sequence of Corpus Christi | Prof. Patrick Callahan

Prof. Patrick Callahan analyzes the poetic genius of Saint Thomas Aquinas in the hymns and sequence of Corpus Christi, highlighting Aquinas’ understanding of beauty, proportion, clarity, and sublimity as essential to both art and spiritual contemplation.
Guest: Prof. Patrick Callahan
May 1, 2025

Only the Lover Sings: Poetry, Mimesis, and the Christian Life | Prof. Patrick Callahan

Prof. Patrick Callahan reveals how poetry, as the most Christ-like form of speech and a reflection of human mimesis, plays a vital role in the Christian life by fostering conformity to Christ and deepening the contemplative experience.
Guest: Prof. Patrick Callahan
April 29, 2025

The Beautiful and the Sublime: How to Make Art that Leads to God | Prof. Patrick Callahan

Prof. Patrick Callahan explores how art, through beauty and the sublime, can lead the soul toward God, drawing on insights from Joseph Pieper, Aristotle, and Christian philosophy to reveal the contemplative power of poetry, music, and the fine arts...
Guest: Prof. Patrick Callahan
Oct. 28, 2024

Flannery O'Connor and St. Thomas Aquinas on the Future of Catholic Fiction | Prof. Patrick Callahan

This lecture was given on April 4th, 2024, at Fordham University.
Guest: Prof. Patrick Callahan