Audio Category: History of Western Civilization

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro speaks of the Capuchin’s work in inspiring Austria to resist the Moslems at the time of the great Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683. Besides being a...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand describes how philosophical discussions of religion are ethical in character. Philosophical discussions of morality are “ethical” in character. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand treats here of the...

The Spanish Civil War, in an intellectual sense, was the great political event of the Twentieth Century. Representatives of every possible political and social position produced by the modern world...

John Rao addresses the subject of Competition in the Call for Purification, 1919-1939. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church was not the only voice offering a purification message competing with that of...

Dr. John Rao discusses the growth of Frankish power, the Carolingians and St. Boniface. The Kingdom of the Franks expanded eastward underneath the strongest of the Merovingians and the Carolingian...

One obstacle to the organized pilgrimage to God was, Dr. John Rao argues, failure to recognize papal guidance of the line of march. Opposition came from the Eastern Churches, led...

In this lecture, Dr. John Rao examines the genesis, specifics, and significance of the Syllabus. Its defenders and opponents in the Catholic world, such as La Civilta Cattolica, are treated...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world providing a grand tour of the early Christian world. Christianity spread very quickly throughout the Mediterranean World. Here, Dr. John...

Dr. John Rao discusses the idea that modernity can seriously be critiqued in and of itself as opposed to being chastised merely for failure to live up to its supposedly...

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro discusses the Cristeros movement in Twentieth Century Mexico, a magnificent militant expression of popular Catholic crusading for the Faith against a persecuting secularist, liberal/Marxist Mexican government in...