Podcast Description

What happens when lies are repeated often enough, backed by power, and dressed up in the appearance of justice? Athanasius presses on with his relentless defense, dismantling one fabricated charge after another — the mysterious broken chalice, the false presbyter Ischyras, and the rigged “investigation” that relied on enemies, heathens, and civil force while the accused was kept far away. Augustine turns inward to expose a more subtle danger: the restless curiosity that drives us to seek knowledge, novelty, and even morbid spectacles not for wisdom but for the thrill of experience — the “lust of the eyes” that can twist even religion into a demand for signs and wonders. Thomas Aquinas then gives us the proper order of honor: God alone receives latria (worship), while dulia (honor) is fittingly shown to p ...