Description

Patrick speaks with Bo Bonner about a multitude of books and how they speak to life with the suspension of public Masses around Holy Week. Bo is executive vice president of the Newman Idea and director of mission and ministry at Mercy College in Iowa. He also co-hosts a weekly broadcast on Iowa Catholic Radio, the Uncommon Good.

Works discussed in this episode:

1. Don Quixote by Miguel Cervantes
2. Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe
3. Nicomachean Ethics by Aristotle
4. Abuse of Language, Abuse of Power by Josef Pieper
5. Paradise Lost by John Milton
6. "The Proof" by Richard Wilbur
7. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
8. On Bullsh*t by Harry Frankfurt

Bo has also written for Church Life Journal on Pieper's most famous work, Liesure : the Basis of Culture.