History of Western Civilization

Marxism-Leninism seems to have collapsed of its own contradictions inside the Christian world. Pluralism, however, has not. This has pressed the Church not only to come to terms with everything...

Dr. John Rao discusses Protestant Naturalism. The problem of the Missions also was central to the developments tackled by Dr. Rao in these three lectures. China loomed especially large in...

Dr. John Rao says that the danger to the Papal States became more clear by 1859. A call to create an international Papal Army went out. Men from all over...

Dr. John Rao examines how Christianity has dealt with war and warriors and, to illustrate his point, traces the Church’s conversion of the Medieval warrior to the Christian Knight. A...

Dr. Warren Carroll shows the benefits of society in the Middle Ages. In this lecture, Dr. Carroll explores the effects and results of Catholic Culture in the “High Middle Ages,”...

Dr. John Rao discusses the growth of Frankish power, the Carolingians, and St. Boniface. St. Boniface realized that working with the Franks and the Carolingians was a necessary but tricky...

The problem for Catholics from the very beginning of Church History is that they have to work with nature and accept the fact that all aspects of nature have something...

With the collapse of Soviet Communism the socialist idea has not disappeared and perhaps has not even been weakened. The environmentalists, for example, who strive after a natural utopia stripped...

Dr. David Allen White richly analyzes Dante’s Divine Comedy.In Part II, Dr. White richly analyzes the Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso in light of Catholic thought. Taken from: Christianity...

Dr. William Marra speaks about God as known by Faith and Reason. The High Middle Ages provided the background for a variety of attempts to prove the existence of God...

Pius XI spoke of the Roman School’s program as the construction of a New Christendom. This faced many secular obstacles in the form of Marxism-Leninism, Fascism, Nazism, and the continued...

Dr. John Rao explains that Protestant preachers obsessed with charismatic presentations of the inner meaning of the written Word were part of the anti-theology and anti-philosophy movement that began in...

The East experienced a period of revival under the Macedonian Dynasty, which lasted until the middle of the 1000’s. This growth, following the end of the Iconoclast Heresy, also gave...

Recorded when Patrick Buchanan was running for President, he talks about a range of political issues, including whether the Mass of Saint Pius V would be celebrated in the White...

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 early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world particularly Christian life in the 200’s A.D. What was Christian life like by the 200’s A.D.? What did Christians think...

In this excellent talk, Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., acutely demonstrates how our “Enlightened” 20th Century Moloch world is at the root of the Jonestown tragedy. He explains the causes of...

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro treats the riches of Catholic political thought in the 16th and 17th century. That thought, which involved a variety of Jesuit scholars in particular, brought forth serious...

Chris Ferrara continues a discussion about the modern world and Pope Saint Pius X. Mr. Ferrara describes how, at the turn of the 20th century, Pope Saint Pius X condemned...

The Franks in Gaul under the Merovingian Dynasty led by Clovis and his descendents were the first German tribe to become Catholic. Dr. John Rao explains that their history from...