Christendom professor Andrew Whitmore recently joined the “Christendom Conversations” podcast to speak on St. Thomas Aquinas and virtue. The podcast launched last year with three episodes, including a conversation with college President Timothy O’Donnell on the founding of the college.
Christendom’s Executive Vice President Mark Rohlena and college faculty members discuss insights on the faith and how to live a Catholic life.
The new episode comes on the heels of Whitmore’s book, “Saintly Habits: Aquinas’ 7 Simple Strategies You Can Use to Grow in Virtue.” The longform interview touches on many of the themes featured in the book. Whitmore spoke extensively on the differences between what modern society often sees as virtues, especially “tolerance,” and what Aquinas outlined instead.
“Our culture holds up tolerance as virtue, which is really selling ourselves short,” said Whitmore. “We all want to be perfect, I think, to some extent, because we want to be happy. It’s one of our deepest desires. But who thinks they’ve actually attained it?
“We’re all searching for what will bring us that contentment, but we’re looking for it in all the wrong places,” he said. “We have an infinite desire. Only God can fulfill that. Like Augustine says, ‘Our hearts are restless until they rest in you, Oh Lord.’ Only God’s infinite, so anything else is not going to fill that desire. It’s going to make us unhappy.”
Additional episodes this fall will include Conor Sweeney, Chris Lane and Kurt Poterack.
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