Audio Category: Albums

Mr. Michael Davies discusses the Alexandrian and Gallican rites. Two distinct centers of liturgical importance are examined in this lecture by Mr. Michael Davies: those of Alexandria in Egypt, with...

Dr. William Marra discusses the problem of evil. Gnostic influences, so strong at the time of the late Empire, led many men to presume that the evils of nature indicate...

Dr. David Allen White reads the moving eulogy delivered by St. John Fisher for the pious grandmother of Henry VIII. Here one gets a good sense of the learning and...

Mr. Michael Davies provides a critique of the Dominican reformer, Girolamo Savonarola. Heresy found fertile soil wherever the Church was corrupt. This was due to the fact that a corrupt...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses the question, “What Is Beauty?” The only way that man can really understand the essence of the kind of beauty the Renaissance claimed to love...

Dr. David Allen White deals with one of the greatest Spanish writers of the era, Cervantes, and the genius of his major work, Don Quixote. Once again, the Catholic spirit...

“The Wakefield Noah”, a Medieval Mystery Play, is performed by members of the Dietrich Von Hildebrand Institute. Taken from: Christianity in the Late Middle Ages-Early Renaissance – 1996 VonHildebrand Institute

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Father Richard Munkelt discusses human suffering through Homer’s character, Penelope. The kind of Christian-friendly themes that Homer evokes in the Odyssey differ from those in the Iliad. Father Richard Munkelt...

Dr. David Allen White introduces Medieval drama, explaining its various forms, its historical development from tropes inserted within the Mass to full-scale stage plays, and its purpose as an entertaining...

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...