St. Anselm, Part 2 – The Doctors of the Church: The Charism of Wisdom with Dr. Matthew Bunson – Discerning Hearts Podcast
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🗓️ 21 April 2026
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St. Anslem part 2
an excerpt from Pope Benedict XVI's reflection on St. Anslem:
Dear brothers and sisters, may the love of the truth and the constant thirst for God that marked St Anselm's entire existence be an incentive to every Christian to seek tirelessly an ever more intimate union with Christ, the Way, the Truth and the Life. In addition, may the zeal full of courage that distinguished his pastoral action and occasionally brought him misunderstanding, sorrow and even exile be an encouragement for Pastors, for consecrated people and for all the faithful to love Christ's Church, to pray, to work and to suffer for her, without ever abandoning or betraying her. May the Virgin Mother of God, for whom St Anselm had a tender, filial devotion, obtain this grace for us. "Mary, it is you whom my heart yearns to love", St Anselm wrote, "it is you whom my tongue ardently desires to praise".
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| 0:00.0 | Discerning Hearts.com presents The Doctors of the Church, the Carerism of Wisdom, with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. |
| 0:07.4 | For over 20 years, Dr. Bunsen has been active in the area of Catholic social communications and |
| 0:13.6 | education, including writing, editing, and teaching on a variety of topics related to church history, |
| 0:23.4 | the papacy, the saints, and Catholic culture. He is the faculty chair at the Catholic Distance University, a senior |
| 0:28.8 | fellow of the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, and the author or co-author of over |
| 0:34.5 | 50 books, including the Encyclopedia of Catholic History and the best-selling |
| 0:39.4 | biographies of St. Damian of Malachi and St. Cotiri Ticka Kowice. He also serves as a senior |
| 0:46.3 | editor for the National Catholic Register and is a senior contributor to EWTN News. The Doctors of |
| 0:53.8 | the Church, The Charrism of Wisdom, with Dr. Matthew Bunsen. |
| 0:57.7 | I'm your host, Chris McGregor. |
| 1:01.6 | Welcome, Dr. Matthew Bunsen. |
| 1:04.1 | It's great to be with you, Chris, as always. |
| 1:05.8 | We're going to continue our discussion on the lifetimes and teachings of an remarkable man, St. Anselm. |
| 1:15.2 | Yes, as we discussed in part one of our discussions. |
| 1:18.7 | Here was somebody who grew up in northern Italy, and was then the kingdom of Burgundy, |
| 1:25.3 | who made his way to northern France, entered the |
| 1:30.0 | Benedictines, flourished as a Benedictine, and then of course became an abbot. And where we left |
| 1:37.7 | off, Anselm, having business to conduct as an abbot in England found himself named the Archbishop of Canterbury |
| 1:49.0 | in a time of great political upheaval, a time of great struggle between the church and the crown |
| 1:56.7 | in England, and as well, a time of great intellectual vivacity for the church. |
| 2:05.2 | And Anselm would certainly leave his mark on both. |
| 2:09.2 | Help us to understand his time as the Archbishop of Canterbury. |
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