In this episode, the dogs discuss what it means to live with integrity (0:44 ). Rob opens by bringing up Bobby Jones’ loss in the 1925 U.S. Open (1:00 ), Mike gets a little heretical (10:10 ), and Connor experiences some technical difficulties (15:15 ). They close by reflecting on representations of integrity in various films (28:22 ).

Quotes:

“It’s just you have no integrity. That’s the worst thing I could say about anybody.” (from Calvary, 3:55 )

“Integrity is a result of a life lived in truth.” (Connor, 5:05 )

“Beauty is the manifestation of truth.” (from Denis McNamara 3DN S11 E12, 5:16 )

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!” (Matthew 23:19 , 9:10 )

“Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.” (from The Sandlot, 12:10 )

“Real integrity, you can tell has been cultivated over a lifetime.” (Connor, 16:30 )

“A good friend is not a conspirator in our vices.” (Mike quoting a friend, 20:50 )

“You’re going to get the work done of one person because you’re one person.” (Connor, 25:45 )

“God does manifest his glory through human creativity, but it’s not through the grind.” (Connor, 27:10 )

“What profit would there be for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?” (Matthew 16:26 , 31:30 )

“When a man takes an oath, he’s holding his own self in his own hands like water, and if he opens his fingers then, he needn’t hope to find himself again.” (from A Man for All Seasons, 34:06 )

“If you aim at the truth, at Jesus….. you become yourself.” (Connor 36:00 )

Media Mentions:

• Thomas Aquinas’ Summa Theologica


• Calvary (2014)


• Bobby Jones: Sroke of Genius (2004)


• The Legend of Bagger Vance (2000)


• The Greatest Game Ever Played (2005)


• The Chronicles of Narnia


• Miracle (2004)


• Remember the Titans (2000)


• Three Dogs North S11 E60- Formed by the Father (meekness)


• The Death of Stalin (2017)


• Arrested Development (2003- 2006)


• A Man for All Seasons (1966)


• A Hidden Life (2019)


• Shūsaku Endō’s Silence


• Silence (2016)


• Star Wars

References:

• Bobby Jones


• 1925 U.S. Open


• Thomas Aquinas: consonantia, claritas, and integritas


• Brendan Gleeson


• Pope Benedict XVI (Joseph Ratzinger)


• John the Baptist


• Cardinal Francis George


• Will Smith


• Matt Damon


• Shia LaBeouf


• James Earl Jones


• Babe Ruth


• Aslan


• Fr. Larry Hennessy


• Shakespeare


• “A mortal, sinful human being.”


• Michelangelo


• Sistine Chapel


• Bishop Robert Barron


• Steve Buscemi


• Nikita Khrushchev


• Sir Thomas More


• Bishop Mark Bartosic


• Liam Neeson


• Andrew Garfield


• Adam Driver


• Darth Vader


• Kylo Ren


• Franz Jägerstätter

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