Church Teaching

Audios

Plato’s Timaeus concerns the overflowing goodness of God and the creation of the world. This helped many medievals, including St. Bernard, to explain the goodness and hierarchy of the beauties...

Dr. Dennis McInerny discusses the connection between Faith and Reason in the work of Saint Thomas Aquinas.

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Christopher A. Ferrara and Mr. Michael Davies discuss the Pontifical Biblical Commission, when it was still an authoritative body, prescribed a number of important beliefs for the Creation account of...

Archbishop Fulton Sheen defines the Authority and Infallibility of the Pope, traces it back to its Divine Source and explains its condition: “Peter, do you love me?”

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Dr. Christopher Manion highlights the rights of the laity to take the lead in temporal affairs and urges the bishops to return to the exercise of their proper authority. Dissidents...

What is Church Dogma? Where is Purgatory? This series describes its pains, its duration. What is the cause of suffering? How can we assist the Holy Souls? What are the...

Monsignor William Smith, lecturing on human sexuality in the context of virtue, renders an understanding of the dimension of love and life in human sexuality within the covenant of marriage....

The nineteenth century Catholic revival was very rich and variegated. Aspects of it had combined together by the turn of the century to create a distinct “Roman School” dominating the...

Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. talks on the Twelfth Article concerning the Everlasting Life in Heaven and the Salvation of Man.

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Dr. Thomas A. Droleskey speaks on the issue of Americanism vs Catholicism. Americanists did not emphasize evangelization and wanted to adapt Catholic life to the modern life and sensibilities. Leo...

Dr. William Marra looks at Faith, Reason, and Christian Wisdom and its relation to happiness.

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Father Calvin Goodwin discusses, “Vatican II Documents and Their Influence in the Church.” This lecture is anchored upon the central truth, upheld through millennia and affirmed by the young saints,...

Carol Long develops the theme of the connection of theological and spiritual revival with the growth of Baroque Art in general. The Council of Trent and its “postconciliar” spirit are...

Dr. Ronald McArthur, President Emeritus of Thomas Aquinas College followed with an examination of Catholic higher education. He stressed that “Catholic education has always been, and remains, Faith seeking understanding...

Father Hugh Thwaites asks, “What, really, is the proper response to witchcraft, demons, and ghosts?” Father Thwaites explains the answer to this – and to similar questions – is to...

Our Lord and the Apostles considered the Old Testament historical. The liberal supposition that the Pentateuch was composed centuries after the life of Moses (if Moses ever really existed) or...

A “bestseller” Catholic author, Mr. Michael S. Rose, describes the modernist manipulation within the Church since Vatican II.

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Man should absolutely and entirely conform himself to the Divine Will in particulars, as well as in generals. Our Savior taught this both by precept and example and gave himself...

Father George Rutler speaks on the Fatherhood of God. We live in a time when the Fatherhood of God is controversial. But it is a God given dogma that we...

Dietrich Von Hildebrand was a hero in the battle for Catholic Tradition in the wake of the catastrophe following Second Vatican Council. But he was also a political hero in...