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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S11 Episode 62- Martyr for the truth