In this episode, we descend into the Bolgia of Discord, where souls tear themselves to shreds. We discuss the true cause of civil strife, marital strife, being at peace with oneself, and why it is vital to know WHY you exist to understand who you are.

In this episode Dante encounters Guido de Montefeltro, the famed “fox” who repented of his scheming ways, but ruined his chance at heaven at the last moment. We talk about repentance, lying to yourself, making good and bad confessions, how formal cooperation with evil is both easy and fatal, and the spiritual perils of hockey fandom.

In this episode we descend into the next bolgia, that of fraudulent counsellors, where Virgil and Dante encounter the legendary Ulysses, hero of Homer’s Odyssey. We discuss how Dennis Prager was once Cam’s Ulysses, the perils of Instagram Moms, finding common cause with others without abandoning the truth, and Bonnie Tyler.

In this Canto we continue exploring the bolgia of thieves, where Dante witnesses horrifying transformations and at last discovers the true identity of the serpents. We talk about true and false freedom, resisting temptation, what it means to be real, Taylor Swift, Blake Lively, Justin Baldoni, and shrovetide.

Learn about the real person behind Valentine's Day. As the Roman Empire's reign weakens on the battlefield, the Emperor bans marriages so that his soldiers can focus on the war. Valentine risks life and limb to defy his law and secretly binds his betrothed friends together in the sacrament of marriage. This exciting tale of courage and love teaches us the value of vocation, God's call, in love.

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In this episode Virgil gives Dante some hard words, we reach the threshold of the bolgia of thieves, and Dante hears more hard words from a hellish soul. We discuss true friendship, virtue, fraternal correction, the Roman obsession with fame, Wicked, the courage to have hard conversations, and friendship in the communion of saints

In this episode, we descend into the next bolgia of the Circle of Fraud and meet the hypocrites, who eternally seek fake holiness. We talk about real and false freedom, the anxiety that comes from trying to be what others seem to value, virtue signaling, real virtue, the Hunchback of Notre Dame, and why pride can cause us to reject God.

We kick of Season 3 of the Camkam Books Podcast with Dante and Virgil watching the Malebranche demons get into a little slapstick comedy. We discuss what makes something funny, the most humiliating (and funniest) thing that has ever happened to Cam, why demons are objectively mockable, Paradise Lost, The Screwtape Letters, horror movies, and Dad jokes.