{"id":295426,"date":"2025-03-28T20:12:21","date_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-193\/"},"modified":"2025-03-28T20:12:21","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T20:12:21","slug":"the-catholic-culture-podcast-193","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/28\/the-catholic-culture-podcast-193\/","title":{"rendered":"The Catholic Culture Podcast: 193"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"date\">Mar 28, 2025<\/p>\n<p>Mimetic desire, scapegoating: if you&#8217;ve been hearing these terms<br \/>\nthrown around lately, it&#8217;s because the French Catholic philosopher<br \/>\nRen\u00e9 Girard (1923-2015) is having a renaissance, with powerful<br \/>\npeople like J.D. Vance and Peter Thiel citing his influence on<br \/>\ntheir thought.\u00a0Trevor Cribben Merrill, producer of the new<br \/>\ndocumentary\u00a0<em>Things Hidden: The Life and Legacy of Ren\u00e9<br \/>\nGirard<\/em>, joins the podcast to discuss Girard&#8217;s principal ideas,<br \/>\nand reflect on aspects of his thought which seem difficult to<br \/>\nreconcile with Catholic doctrine.<\/p>\n<p>Watch <em>Things Hidden\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L-vB1HaBsog\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=L-vB1HaBsog<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SIGN UP for Catholic Culture&#8217;s newsletter: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters\">https:\/\/www.catholicculture.org\/newsletters<\/a><\/p>\n<p>DONATE to make this show possible!\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio\">http:\/\/catholicculture.org\/donate\/audio<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {\n      var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\n      if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\n      js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\n      js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.8&appId=834757889913083\";\n      fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\n    }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/catholicculturepodcast.libsyn.com\/193-on-ren-girard-trevor-cribben-merrill\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mar 28, 2025 Mimetic desire, scapegoating: if you&#8217;ve been hearing these terms thrown around lately, it&#8217;s because the French Catholic philosopher Ren\u00e9 Girard (1923-2015) is<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":295427,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[166],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-295426","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295426","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=295426"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/295426\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/295427"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=295426"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=295426"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newhampshiredigitalnews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=295426"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}