TAN Conversations

TAN Conversations

TAN Conversations is an ongoing collection of fascinating talks, interviews, and roundtables hosted by TAN and featuring the best Catholic thinkers, authors, leaders, clergy, religious brothers and sisters, and more. Subscribe for updates to notify you every time a new TAN Conversation becomes available! Use Coupon Code CONVERSATIONS25 to get 25% Off your next order at TANBooks.com.

Episodes

April 23, 2025 10 mins

TAN's Mary Harrell talks to Brandon Otto about his carefully translated work of St. John of Avila's selected sermons, My Burden is Light: Suffering and Consolation in the Christian Life, available now for the first time in English.

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“Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you. Take up my ...

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TAN's Mary Harrell interviews Msgr. Charles Pope about his new book, The Hell There Is: An Exploration of an Often-Rejected Doctrine of the Church.

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Even self-described Christians question whether God would consign anyone to hell. Msgr. Pope explains this false percep...

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TAN's Mary Harrell interviews author Rosemary McGuire Berry about her new book Piety and Personality: The Temperaments of the Saints.

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Are you grappling with traits that feel more flawed than saintly? Whether you're impulsive like St. Peter, assertive like St. Paul, or even unpredictable like St. Mary Magdalene, your unique personal...

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TAN's Mary Harrell talks with Elizabeth Zelasco about her new book in collaboration with Katie Warner, My True Love Gave To Me: A Catechism for the Twelve Days of Christmas.

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Enchanting artwork meets one of the most popular Christmas tunes of all time. My True Love Gave to Me teaches children and adults ali...

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    TAN's Mary Harrell interviews Peter Kwasniewski, PhD, about his new book, Turned Around: Replying to Common Objections Against the Traditional Latin Mass.

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    Turned Around: Replying to Common Objections Against the Traditional Latin Mass is a practical and clear book that examines the Traditional Latin Mass (TLM) through a fresh lens. In each chapter, Dr. Peter Kwasniewski addresses common objections to the TLM, transformin...

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    TAN's Mary Harrell talks to Paul Kengor about his new book, The Stigmatists: Their Gifts, Their Revelations, Their Warnings, an investigation into one of the most complicated mystical phenomena in Catholicism.

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    There have been very few books that offer a serious, reliable, thoughtful look at stigmatists, and specifically, vi...

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    TAN's Mary Harrell talks to Mary Elizabeth Cuff, PhD, about her new book Mother to Mother: Spiritual and Practical Wisdom from the Cloister to the Home.

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    The unique ability of women to be mothers is a most precious gift. Whether a woman’s vocation is to be a mother in the context of married life or the spiri...

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    TAN's Mary Harrell interviews author A.J. Benjamin about his book, When the Son Frees You: A Catholic Man's Journey of Healing from Same-Sex Attraction.

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    Is it really possible for a man to change his sexual orientation from "gay" to "straight"? Aren’t "gay" men “born this way”?

    With the increasing norma...

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    TAN's Mary Harrell interviews author Meredith Hinds about her new book, Eucharistic Saints: Twenty Stories of Devotion to Jesus, and how it will inspire your child to meet Christ in the Eucharist.

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    With such a great cloud of witnesses, we have much to learn from the saints. Allow the saints to be your child’s example for meeting ...

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    TAN's Tim Hill interviews Jason Craig, co-author of the new book The Liturgy of the Land: Cultivating a Catholic Homestead.

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    Many people today desire a simple life that is closely connected to land, whether it be gardening, farming, or ranching. There is a spiritual draw to a non-consumeristic lifestyle that places God, the fami...

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    TAN's Mary Harrell interviews social scientist Steven Mosher about his new book, The Devil and Communist China.

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    As Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn said, “Within the philosophical system of Marx and Lenin, and at the heart of their psychology, hatred of God is the principal driving force, more fundamental than all their political and economic p...

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    TAN's Mary Harrell interviews author Fr. Mitch Pacwa, SJ, about his new book, Commentary on the Book of Isaiah, where the prolific Scripture scholar unpacks the mysteries contained in this prophetic book to guide Catholics on a path of sanctity.

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    Isaiah is undoubtedly the greatest prophet in the Old T...

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    Dive into the triumph of the good and saintly popes and the scandals of the bad in this live streaming interview. Award-winning author Fr. Jeffrey Kirby sits down with TAN's Mary Harrell to discuss his new book, A Year with the Popes.

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    This manual reads as an engaging parade through the history of the papacy and gives a...

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