History of Western Civilization

Pope Innocent III (1198 A.D.- 1216 A.D.) “Our Glorious Popes” is a ten-part series. Listening to Our Glorious Popes will refresh your appreciation of grace in the lives of men...

Mr. Michael Davies begins with a treatment of the solid but parochially-minded Church in England before the Reformation. He then shows how Henry VIII, on personal and political grounds, aided...

Modernity, Dr. John Rao argues, had intellectually deconstructed itself as much as possible by the end of the nineteenth century. What was left to do was to deconstruct itself politically...

Dr. David Allen White explores the question of how this concept in general and the cinema in particular can help or hurt the search for the eternal Truth, incarnated by...

Catholics have often shown themselves incapable of responding to the Black Legends. Why is this the case? Dr. John Rao explores reasons for Catholic apologetic failures and argues that a...

Mr. James Bogle, UK Barrister and Catholic activist, delivers a balanced and elegant appraisal of the leading models of the universe. Mr. Bogle demonstrates that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is...

Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. Ultimately, Anglo-Saxon Britain was Christianized by Benedictine and Irish monks who clashed but also complemented one another in important sections...

Jonathan Arrington addresses one of the main pillars of modernity – the attempt to recreate reality on the basis of individual subjectivism, whether intellectual or sentimental in character. One of...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world and the problems of the New Christian Order. There were many other problems that the emerging Christian order had to...

Dr. William Marra discusses true Social Justice. Do the rich have an obligation to help the poor and the destitute? Dr. Marra, citing Papal teaching as a guide, stresses the...

Bishop Thomas D. Doran tells us that the Council of Trent stemmed the tide of the Protestant Reformation. We cannot disregard the past. It is clear that something is greatly...

Dr. John Rao introduces this Symposium on life in the Empire and its relation to the barbarian world in the years between the defeat at Adrianople in the 370’s and...

Popes, bishops, monks, and secular clergy all fell prey to simony and barbarism by the late 800’s, to a large degree due to the failure of the attempt to restore...

Such early nineteenth century circles, which concerned themselves with theological, philosophical, spiritual/mystical, historical, catechetical, liturgical, literary, missionary, and political and social issues are discussed here by Dr. John Rao in...

Another obstacle to the thirteenth century pilgrimage to God was, Dr. John Rao indicates, intellectual disunity, something that the university “think tanks” were supposed to overcome. Supporters and opponents of...

The movement called Humanism reintroduced a love for literature, history, the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, Plato, and the Bible into Catholic Christendom. These “human” as opposed to “divine” studies...

Dr. John Rao discusses the so-called New Theology developed the modernist, vitalist, and personalist ideas that came from earlier in the century. Its concern to “dive into” and help fulfill...

Dr. John Rao describes the “back to nature” movement called the Enlightenment. The “back to nature” movement called the Enlightenment is the final element that Dr. John Rao brings in...

Father Richard Munkelt shows that the Islamic world had a rich philosophical history in the Middle Ages, including thinkers who worked with theologians and Sufi mystics and others who posed...

Dr. Robert Royal explains the complexities and the problems of the works of Thomas Merton and his fascination with Eastern “mysticism.”

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