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10/09/2026

What is noble about the struggle against our weaknesses?

We have wounds and weaknesses that remain in us, and we are invited to struggle against them through the grace of Christ.

Listen to the full episode on Spotify or Apple Podcasts, or visit Angelicum Conversations.

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Episode 11 out now on
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23/03/2026

Watch the latest Angelicum Conversations episode!

"Nietzschean Self-Creation or Rediscovering the Quest?"

Fr. Thomas Joseph White interviews Fr. Michael Sherwin about Nietzsche, Shakespeare, Aquinas, and more.

👉 Full transcript & show notes: https://media.angelicum.it/online-series/angelicum-conversations/episode-6-christian-virtue-in-a-nietzschean-wasteland➡️ If ...

21/03/2026

The ecological crisis is often presented as a purely environmental problem.

But Catholic social thought has long argued that the issue runs deeper.

In Episode 8 of Universal Fraternity: An Idea That Could Change the World, Cardinal Peter Turkson explains how the Church’s understanding of ecology has gradually developed over the past several decades.

-St. John Paul II spoke of human ecology, emphasizing the dignity of the human person.
-Pope Benedict XVI expanded this vision with the idea of social ecology, highlighting the moral structure of society itself.
-Pope Francis has brought these insights together in the concept of integral ecology, recognizing that environmental and social crises are inseparable.

Our economic systems, political choices, and technological development shape not only human societies, but the conditions of life on Earth itself.

The idea of universal fraternity invites us to see these connections more clearly—reminding us that care for creation ultimately begins with recognizing our shared responsibility for one another and for our common home.

Watch the full episode:
https://youtu.be/gqJrTTWCpOk

15/03/2026

Why did St. Francis speak of “Brother Sun” and “Sister Moon”?

In Episode 8 of Universal Fraternity, Cardinal Peter Turkson reflects on the Christian vision of creation. St. Francis spoke of the world not as a collection of resources to be used, but as a family of relationships in which human beings share a common home with the rest of creation.

For Francis, fraternity extended beyond human society. Everything in creation was connected to the human person—and therefore worthy of care.

This insight continues to shape the Church’s understanding of integral ecology, reminding us that environmental questions are never only technical problems. They are also questions about how we understand our place within the wider community of life.

📺 Watch the full episode:
https://youtu.be/gqJrTTWCpOk

13/03/2026

If Your GPS Took You to the Wrong City…

You’d stop using it immediately.

Yet many of the technologies we use every day—especially social media—often take us somewhere we never intended to go: away from our goals, our relationships, and the things we truly value.

In Episode 7 of Universal Fraternity, contributors reflect on how modern digital technologies increasingly shape the environments in which we think, work, and relate to one another. The question is not simply whether technology works—but whether it helps us live the lives we actually want to live.

Human-centered technology begins by aligning technological design with human flourishing rather than distraction or manipulation.

📺 Watch the full episode:
https://youtu.be/FZOZbehDlKc

07/03/2026

Technology has always shaped human civilization.

But the question is not simply what technology can do.
It is also what it is for.

In Episode 7 of Universal Fraternity: An Idea That Could Change the World, thinkers explore the difference between human-centered technologies and systems that reshape society around technological efficiency, profit, or control.

Take a simple historical example: the development of the electric light. Early electric lighting was harsh and impractical. Edison’s incandescent bulb succeeded not because it was more technologically ambitious, but because it was better aligned with human needs.

This distinction raises an important question for our own time.

As digital technologies and AI increasingly shape our social environment, will they support human flourishing—or reshape our lives around technological systems?

The idea of universal fraternity suggests that technology should ultimately strengthen the relationships that sustain human life.

Watch Episode 7 of Universal Fraternity:

📺 https://youtu.be/FZOZbehDlKc

04/03/2026

Is “Realism” Really Realistic?

Many theorists of international relations describe power dynamics as “realism.”

But what if that description becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy?

In Episode 6 of Universal Fraternity, Gregory Reichberg draws on Plato and Aquinas to argue that when we assume rivalry and threat are the fundamental facts of international life, we begin to treat them as norms — and we overlook other realities: institutions like the United Nations, diplomatic practices, and long histories of fraternal of cooperation that allow states to resolve disputes without violence.

Conflict is real.
But so is the possibility of fraternity.

Has the time has come for the fraternal conception of international relations to come into its own?

🎥 Full episode: https://youtu.be/2kS7XyCDX7Q

25/02/2026

In the newest episode of Angelicum Conversations, Fr. Thomas Joseph White, O.P., speaks with Fr. Wojciech Giertych, O.P.—Theologian of the Papal Household and Professor of Moral Theology at the Angelicum—about the renewal of Catholic moral theology in the Thomistic tradition.

Moving beyond a rule-centered or prohibition-focused approach to ethics, the conversation explores the vision articulated by Servais Pinckaers and rooted in St. Thomas Aquinas: Christian morality is ordered to happiness, freedom, and human fulfillment. The moral life is not primarily about avoiding sins, but about learning to love the true good, growing in interior liberty, and being transformed by grace.

The discussion ranges across:
-Why Christian morality is about happiness, not mere obligation
-How freedom grows through virtue and love of the good
-The difference between rule-following and moral creativity
-The role of grace in healing and elevating natural virtue
-Why the goal of the Christian moral life is to become “icons of the Icon”—conformed to Christ

The episode closes with a meditation on how beauty, art, and virtue shape the moral imagination.

👉 Full transcript & show notes: https://media.angelicum.it/online-series/angelicum-conversations/episode-5-icons-of-the-icon-the-thomistic-renewal-of-christ...

18/02/2026

Two visions of international order.

One sees relations between nations as permanent rivalry.
The other understands diplomacy as a fragile form of friendship across difference.

In Episode 6 of Universal Fraternity, thinkers draw on classical philosophy, Catholic social thought, and modern diplomacy to ask whether global politics can be shaped by something more than threat and coercion.

Universal fraternity does not abolish conflict.
It reframes how we live with it.

🎥 Full episode: https://youtu.be/2kS7XyCDX7Q

09/02/2026

What holds a society together: shared interests—or a shared destiny?

🎥 Watch the full Episode 5 here: https://youtu.be/nMTxsx6-QFo

We often use words like friendship and solidarity to describe social bonds.

But fraternity names something deeper: a shared human destiny we don’t get to choose.

In Episode 5 of Universal Fraternity, Vera Zamagni explains why fraternity isn’t just being “nice” to others—and why it matters for social life.