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07/04/2025

What happens when history feels more real than memory? Follow Tom Hoopes’s unexpected journey by the Missouri River—and his powerful encounter with the past. Read more here:

It was a few days before the Fourth of July, and my encounter changed the way I celebrate the day.

07/02/2025

FAITH & FOUNDING IS NOW ON YOUTUBE! Dr. Kevin Vance, Director of the Center for Constitutional Liberty at Benedictine College, examines America's founding principles, their origins, their relationship to Catholic political thought, and how Catholicism has interacted with the American political experiment throughout history. Watch here:

WATCH THE FULL SERIEShttps://media.benedictine.edu/videos/faith-and-foundingDr. Kevin Vance, Director of the Center for Constitutional Liberty at Benedictine...

05/02/2025

We congratulate Patrick Bautista on his new job with Spirit Juice Studios in Chicago. Thank you, Patrick, for sharing your friendship and immense talents with our crew. You’ll always have friends here at Benedictine College!

04/09/2025

Kevin Vance draws parallels between Abraham Lincoln’s political strategies and the contemporary politics surrounding abortion, suggesting that lessons from Lincoln’s approach could inform current pro-life efforts. Link in Bio.

02/03/2023

Christopher Carstens throws a curveball question to the group. Why do the Liturgy Guys believe in God? And why do we believe Christ our savior? This season is all about the Eucharist, but we can’t begin to understand the Blessed Sacrament without asking ourselves these questions.

LG Question: What are your five favorite Catholic books?

‎Show The Liturgy Guys, Ep Why Do You Believe in God? | S7 E12 - Feb 3, 2023

01/29/2023

This week on The Extraordinary Story, we will look at the parables of the kingdom and compare them to the church today. You may have noticed what I have noticed, and that weeds have choked the life of the kingdom in so many areas of the church. But let’s also notice how great the results are. Whenever one of us sows a mustard seed of faith.

This week on The Extraordinary Story, we will look at the parables of the kingdom and compare them to the church today. You may have noticed what I have noticed, and that

01/29/2023

Pope Benedict XVI, through his teachings and leadership, laid the foundation for everything The Liturgy Guys are about. This week we discuss his enormous impact on the Church, and on our own lives.

LG Question: Can priests arrange their altar like Pope Benedict XVI in the so-called “Benedictine Arrangement?”

01/22/2023

The Season Two Premiere of The Extraordinary Story, a podcast about the life of Christ. We pick up from last season with the beheading of John the Baptist. John was trapped in a dungeon. Both he and the ruler who killed him were asking, “Who is Jesus?” That’s exactly the question we are asking today.

Welcome back to The Extraordinary Story, a podcast about the life of Christ. We pick up from last season with the beheading of John the Baptist. John was trapped in a dungeon.

01/20/2023

The Eucharist is our path to sainthood.

LG Question: Can there be two mass intentions for one mass?

We’re talking sainthood. We’re concluding the USCCB document on The Mystery of the Eucharist in the Life of the Church. It concludes with sanctity and holiness. And so we’ll look at some of

01/18/2023

"The fight for racial justice isn’t over — but Jesus Christ shows the way forward, and it’s a way of truth and love."

Dr. Jacqueline Rivers spoke at Benedictine College on Martin Luther King Day. Read about what she had to say:

Dr. Jacqueline Rivers spoke at Benedictine College on Martin Luther King Day about the myths of racism and Truth incarnate, Jesus Christ.

01/17/2023

"For too long, Catholics in America have sort of resigned ourselves to accepting that the Church is on the wane, secularism is ascendant, and that we are destined to be a tiny remnant of the faith that struggles forward."

Read today's article on Ex Corde about Christianity's future:

Don't believe the secular media narrative that Christianity is dying. Let's start by looking at the numbers ...

01/16/2023

Dr. Christopher Shingledecker, assistant professor of Physics and Astronomy at Benedictine College, has plans to observe the “C/2022 E3” comet discovered by California’s Zwicky Transient Facility Comet with students at the college’s Daglen Observatory when the comet is visible on the first two days of February.

Learn more about this once every 50 millennia event:

Every once in a while there is a once-in-a-millennium event like the year 2000. But how often do you get a once-every-50-millennia event?