In a few short minutes I want to give you an idea of what the Curious Catholic Podcast is all about and what you can expect from it in the coming months.
Really, what I want to do in this short episode is invite you to join me on a pilgrimage through the Catholic Imagination. On this pilgrimage, we will encounter the personalities, ideas, realities, and movements that have shaped the Catholic Vision. These would include people like Edith Stein and St. Augustine; John Henry Newman and Elizabeth Anscombe. Well-known figures like Galileo and lesser known ones such as Hildegard of Bingen.
Because of their efforts, the Catholic vision, centered in the Incarnation, is one of beauty, truth, joy and depth of meaning. We find this vision expressed in meditations, poems, works of philosophy and theology, literature, and plays. We find this vision in ink and page, stone and glass, in all the manifold ways human ingenuity has conceived of expressing the deep joy of knowing Emmanuel, God-with-us.
The plan of the Curious Catholic Podcast is to focus on certain personalities within the Church’s past and present, and in focusing on these personalities, we’ll take in aspects of their work and lives and witness. To be more specific, in January of 2020, right at the start of the New Year, we’ll have a month devoted to the life and work of Edith Stein, also known as St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; the great 20th-century philosopher, convert to Catholicism, and eventual martyr of Auschwitz.
