Audio Category: Regalism, Revolution, the Reign of Terror, and the Assault of Catholicism

Dr. David Allen White discusses the life and works of John Milton and the problem of the two traditions. Is Milton a Protestant writer? Can his form of Christianity ultimately...

Dr. David Allen White explores the work of Corneille, Racine and Moliere and the French Neoclassical Drama. Seventeenth Century French culture reflects two major spiritual and intellectual themes: those of...

Dr. David Allen White explores Mozart’s Catholic character through one of his greatest operas, Don Giovanni. Everyone knows that Mozart was a genius who worked both for Catholics and secularists,...

Dr. William Marra presents a friendly phenomenologically-based view of Descartes, whose life and work he describes. Descartes’ influence, in fighting a magical view of nature, in turning inward to reach...

Dr. William Marra discusses Spinoza and the Nature of God. A number of Christian believers like Descartes were working in the seventeenth century to desacralize nature in order to free...

Dr. William Marra discusses the life and work of the philosopher, Leibnitz, the first economist. An extremely sympathetic philosopher of the period is Leibnitz. Leibnitz was eager to underline the...

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,...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand describes the spiritual friendship of St. Jeanne Francois Chantel and St. Francis de Sales. The whole labor of the Catholic Reformation was one of encouraging man’s...

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro explains St. Alphonsus Marie de Liguori’s teaching and moral theology. Jansenist rigorists caused many problems for Catholic moral teachers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. St. Alphonsus’...

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...