Saint Peter through Saint Leo the Great (33 A.D. – 461 A.D.) “Our Glorious Popes” is a ten-part series. Listening to Our Glorious Popes will refresh your appreciation of grace...
Dr. David Allen White continues the discussion of the life and work of William Shakespeare. Working with reference to various plays and poems, Dr. David Allen White evokes here the...
Father Bonish, teacher, philosopher, and writer, gives the Church’s answer to the questions surrounding test-tube babies.
...In the American dominated Pluralist world, Catholics were called upon to be anti-communist. This was no problem, as Dr. John Rao admits. Nevertheless, they were also urged not to be...
Dr. John Rao describes how the Jansenists saw the Church’s attitude towards nature as deluded and overblown. The Enlightenment believed that nature could soar if only freed from the Church’s...
Mr. Michael Davies discusses the life of the ordinary man in Medieval England, and his relationship with his neighbors, his lord, the King, and the Church. He explores the whole...
Dr. John Rao discusses Gaul and the background of the Papal-Frankish Alliance. Dr. John Rao continues his discussion of Christianity in Merovingian Gaul. The Kingdom of the Franks under the...
Dr. John Rao discusses the idea that modernity can seriously be critiqued in and of itself as opposed to being chastised merely for failure to live up to its supposedly...
Dr. John C. Rao is professor of history at St. John’s University and Director of the Roman Forum. This second talk shows how Catholics were influenced by the Moderate Enlightenment’s...
Dr. John Rao discusses dangerous trends in the Church in America which are also showing in other ‘affluent’ Western Countries.
...Plato’s ideas were mostly known before the Renaissance through Neo-Platonist and the Church Fathers. One of the dialogues that the early Medievals had even a part of was the Timaeus....
Dr. John Rao discusses the character of life and organization of government and society in the two main eras of the Roman Empire: the Principate (from Augustus until the 200’s...
Dr. John Rao presents a summary of some of the Christological heresies emerging out of the earlier Trinitarian battles. These led to the discussions of Christ’s divine and human natures...
Another problem emerged from the effort to strengthen the backbone of the Church authorities. When bishops of national Churches did not respond, supporters of the Ultramontanist movement calling for the...
Engagement with the enemy involved many initiatives. These included exploration of the use of certain modern scholarly tools in biblical research and interpretations. They also involved efforts to protect the...
There were horrific abuses in the Church in the 1400’s on every level, which Councils at Constance and Basel could do practically nothing to address. Nevertheless, Dr. John Rao explains...
An exaggerated emphasis upon “human studies” could, however, lead to another form of illegitimate adulation of the ancient world, both pagan and Christian. It could also ensure an overestimate of...
Fr. Richard Munkelt describes the Enlightenment’s reinterpretation of Natural Law. The Enlightenment insisted that it was simply concerned with what is “natural”. But how do you determine what is a...
Dr. John Rao says that in order to understand modern Holy War, it is essential to grasp the continued divisions and complexity of the modern Islamic world. One of the...
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro tells of “The Black Legends” which accuse Spain and the Church of bringing untold evils of the New World and its Indian inhabitants. Monsignor Barreiro examines this...
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