With the collapse of Soviet Communism the socialist idea has not disappeared and perhaps has not even been weakened. The environmentalists, for example, who strive after a natural utopia stripped...
Dr. David Allen White richly analyzes Dante’s Divine Comedy.In Part II, Dr. White richly analyzes the Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso in light of Catholic thought. Taken from: Christianity...
Dr. William Marra speaks about God as known by Faith and Reason. The High Middle Ages provided the background for a variety of attempts to prove the existence of God...
Pius XI spoke of the Roman School’s program as the construction of a New Christendom. This faced many secular obstacles in the form of Marxism-Leninism, Fascism, Nazism, and the continued...
Dr. John Rao explains that Protestant preachers obsessed with charismatic presentations of the inner meaning of the written Word were part of the anti-theology and anti-philosophy movement that began in...
The East experienced a period of revival under the Macedonian Dynasty, which lasted until the middle of the 1000’s. This growth, following the end of the Iconoclast Heresy, also gave...
Recorded when Patrick Buchanan was running for President, he talks about a range of political issues, including whether the Mass of Saint Pius V would be celebrated in the White...
John Rao addresses the subject of Competition in the Call for Purification, 1919-1939. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church was not the only voice offering a purification message competing with that of...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world particularly Christian life in the 200’s A.D. What was Christian life like by the 200’s A.D.? What did Christians think...
In this excellent talk, Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., acutely demonstrates how our “Enlightened” 20th Century Moloch world is at the root of the Jonestown tragedy. He explains the causes of...
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro treats the riches of Catholic political thought in the 16th and 17th century. That thought, which involved a variety of Jesuit scholars in particular, brought forth serious...
Chris Ferrara continues a discussion about the modern world and Pope Saint Pius X. Mr. Ferrara describes how, at the turn of the 20th century, Pope Saint Pius X condemned...
The Franks in Gaul under the Merovingian Dynasty led by Clovis and his descendents were the first German tribe to become Catholic. Dr. John Rao explains that their history from...
The monks of Cluny and others like them saw two groups that had to be “transformed” before all others: the soldiers and the clergy. In order to do this work...
Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the great religious and counterrevolutionary writers of the nineteenth century. He saw Russia and Russian Orthodoxy as being central to the battle for Christianity and...
Discussions of what to do to save the Crusades grew stronger after the total loss of the Holy Land in the late 1200’s. Dr. John Rao discusses the various crusading...
Dr. John Rao shows how all the influences that combined together to shape the Council and the postconciliar Church were used to promote Liberation and Third World Theology. Both these...
Dr. John Rao describes the assault on the Jesuits by the regalists, Jansenists and Enlightenment supporters in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Jesuits were the most clear representative of...
Dr. John Rao says the opponents of the Revolution in the nineteenth century saw themselves as fighting a battle for the defense of the consequences of the Incarnation against the...
Dr. John Rao discusses the impact of Calvinism on America and the building of the our nation and its background in the growth of the Americanist Heresy.
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