Monsignor William Smith details the implications of current definitions of death, attitudes towards suffering and the verbal engineering that usually precedes social engineering in his talk, “The Manipulation of Human...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand tackles a necessary but difficult subject: the personality of Luther and his troubled psychology. Anyone familiar with Luther’s language and his increasing paranoia and conviction of...
Mr. Michael Davies discusses the Mass in the first three centuries. There are intervening periods of “light” and “darkness” regarding our knowledge of the development of the liturgy of the...
Modernity, Dr. John Rao argues, had intellectually deconstructed itself as much as possible by the end of the nineteenth century. What was left to do was to deconstruct itself politically...
Mr. Michael Davies treats here in detail of the turn of the century Modernist movement. While he admits that some of the reaction to the Modernists struck at men and...
From the middle of the 1700’s through the French Revolution and down to the present, this new Grand Coalition used all media to develop an endless variety of Black Legends....
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. begins his talk on the Ten Commandments. He speaks of the First Commandment with regard to Atheism and the Worship of God
...Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks of the Ninth Article, which concerns the Church. Our trust in the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ and its marks of One, Holy,...
Father George Rutler speaks on Mary as the bearer of the Eternal Word. The Holy Spirit who breathed upon the face of the waters and created all the world began...
Dr. John Rao discusses the Irish monks, the Merovingians and the Carolingians. Irish monasticism emphasized the need of going into exile for Christ’s sake. They became great evangelists. One 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...
Dr. John Rao discusses the topic of Papal Authority: Beyond Weakness and Willfulness. Dr. John Rao delivers a vigorous discourse on Papal authority.
...Christopher A Ferrara, Esq asks: How can the situation we are living through today happen in the Church? The crisis has entered a new phase, something we have not seen...
Mr. Christopher Ferrara, Esq., posits that the modernist perception of the right to religious liberty is an erroneous and harmful illusion. Catholic Tradition: Old Rites – New Rights: Phantom Right...
A discussion by Dr. John Rao of the different centers of early Christianity–Alexandria, Palestine, Antioch, Asia Minor, Rome, and Gaul–and the key Church Fathers and institutions through whose work Christian...
Visigothic, Irish, Benedictine, and Anglo-Saxon influences all came together in Frankish Gaul by the early 700’s. The Carolingian Family came to power in an alliance with the Papacy, which could...
Dr. John Rao discusses the various forces which contributed to a revival of Catholic self-confidence in the years 1800-1848. These involved a number of clerical-lay circles in Germany, France, and...
The High Middle Ages had taught that Christians were involved in an exalted but highly complex, hierarchically-organized pilgrimage to God. Obstacles to completion of that pilgrimage came from all segments...
The problem for Catholics from the very beginning of Church History is that they have to work with nature and accept the fact that all aspects of nature have something...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses Blaise Pascal’s life and work. One of the greatest critics of Descartes in seventeenth century France was Pascal. His God, the God of Abraham, Isaac,...
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