Dr. John Rao begins by arguing that aspects of the crusading spirit are natural to man, and that it was also alive in the ancient world already. Cyrus the Great,...
Dr. John Rao says that Christianity made the crusading spirit into a battle for the construction of a soul that was fit to live eternally with God, and the creation...
Dr. John Rao describes the maturation of the idea of Crusading. This process of maturation is shown to have taken hundreds of years, from the 600’s through the 1000’s. Maturation...
Dr. John Rao says the the arrival of Islam into the Mediterranean world of the Seventh Century also aided in the shaping of Crusading concepts. Dr. John Rao shows in...
Dr. John Rao explains that the monks of Cluny aided the maturation process enormously, teaching rough soldiers how they could use their military skills for acceptable purposes. The Pilgrimage to...
Dr. John Rao speaks on the dilemmas emerging from the Great Crusades show just how much the Papacy saw fighting as only one part of the Crusading Movement. Popes like...
Dr. John Rao explains that the external Crusades had to be accompanied by an internal crusade versus heresy, confused thinking in general, and corruption in the clergy and in the...
Dr. John Rao says that threats to Christian security very much increased with the Ottoman victory over Byzantium. Dr. Rao describes the Ottoman advance, which continued, seemingly unabated, into Africa...
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...
Dr. John Rao describes the influence of different modern Islamic developments for places like Asia and Africa, where Moslems are so militant today. Again, the ability of certain militant Moslem...
Your source for the world’s largest collection of traditional Catholic audio downloads and publisher of The Latin Mass magazine.
