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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