Audio Category: History of Western Civilization

Dr. James Hitchcock speaks about the Council of Trent and confronting the Reformation. The Reformation was one of the worst ruptures to threaten to Catholic Church. Whole populations were drifting...

Fr. Richard Munkelt, Ph.D. engages Dr. David Berlinski with a series of probing questions. Is Intelligent Design science or religion? Is chance the basis for the universe? In his inimitable...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand presents a critique of Gabriel Marcel’s work. The Twentieth Century has given birth to a variety of philosophical attempts to escape ideology and make contact with...

Mr. Michael Davies recounts the life of Bishop Robert Grosseteste, a little-known intellectual and moral giant of the Middle Ages, who stood up to Pope Innocent IV when the Pope...

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro discusses the Catholic Polity and its practical obstacles. He discusses the dilemma faced by the Catholic political activist in contemporary society. Marxism, Communism, and Democracy can both...

The missions in the West under the Carolingians most concerned the Saxons and some of the Scandinavians and Slavs. Saint Boniface was disturbed by the meshing together of politics and...

The entire legalist-Humanist-Protestant-Jansenist-Enlightenment alliance became a new Grand Coalition which seized upon the image of freedom and placed it on its banners. All those who yearned to be free had...

Mr. Michael Davies speaks about the Bishop and martyr, St. John Fisher. John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and the heroic defender of the Papacy under King Henry VIII, was the...

Germanic customs also badly affected politics. The Empire was looked upon as a family territory to be divided among the heirs of Louis the Pious, already causing problems when the...

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....