In contemporary public debates on bioethical questions, Catholics often find themselves trying to “win” arguments on secular terms. But in doing so, we risk forgetting the very thing that makes Catholic bioethics Catholic: its deep and beautiful theological imagination. In this talk, David Deane argues that the path forward is not to try to explain life as if God were not real, but to recover the theological vision that undergirds our entire moral tradition

In contemporary public debates on bioethical questions, Catholics often find themselves trying to “win” arguments on secular terms. But in doing so, we risk forgetting the very thing that makes Catholic bioethics Catholic: its deep and beautiful theological imagination. In this talk, David Deane argues that the path forward is not to try to explain life as if God were not real, but to recover the theological vision that undergirds our entire moral tradition

Is ethical investment in the stock market truly possible for Christians in the 21st century? Join us for a challenging discussion which argues that capitalism's logic stands antithetical to Christian values. Discover why the Church's relationship with the stock market is a defining issue of our time. This presentation took place at the 📍 Barat Spirituality Centre, 1455 Summer Street, Halifax, Nova Scotia B3H 4L6 on October 23, 2025

0:00 The News 1:05 Why I'm Moving 3:20 Does it imply that I have concerns about the future of AST?

www.daviddeane.ca 0:00 Introduction 3:09 Early Christian opposition to Abortion 5:36 The Soul and the Holy Spirit 11:33 Misreading Aquinas 17:36 The disaster of Renaissance Catholicism 23:25 Casuistry and the brutalization of indigenous peoples 28:15 Abortion and the totemization of choice in the capitalist West 36:40 The Catholic position revisited

0:00 Grant's Grave 1:09 Context and Style 2:26 American modernity as erasure 4:49 Grant's Canada 7:35 The violence of liberalism 8:41 Grant's lament 11:31 People dying in tents in Halifax 13:14 George Grant's question to Canadian voters in 2025

0:00 Introduction 3:14 God as Reality (p 36-45) 10:34 Knowing Reality in Christ (p 45-52) 14:12 Participating in Reality through the Holy Spirit (p 52-64)

0:00 Introduction 3:03 p.1-4 Hume 9:40 p.4-25 Kant 18:00 p.25- 29 The Horrors that this Philosophy births 29:50 Conclusion Additional video footage used with thanks to Deutsche Welle, The National WWII Museum of New Orleans, The Wall Street Journal, and the Smithsonian Institute. For discussion of the book see https://youtu.be/LsvU1eE2etA?si=8QWzBQCFsED0zLuZ and https://youtu.be/lzy7bXa8m5w?si=P4JgVg1KN-WbxzNp Subscribe so as not to miss videos on the other 5 Chapters.

This is the first of a 10 part video series walking through my book The Tyranny of the Banal: On the Renewal of Catholic Moral Theology 0:00 Welcome 0:57 page ix, x, xi, xii General Argument 09:41 pages xiii-xvii Chapter Overview This video goes through the Introduction which outlines what the book argues for and notes how it will try to argue it.