An exaggerated emphasis upon “human studies” could, however, lead to another form of illegitimate adulation of the ancient world, both pagan and Christian. It could also ensure an overestimate of...
Fr. Richard Munkelt describes the Enlightenment’s reinterpretation of Natural Law. The Enlightenment insisted that it was simply concerned with what is “natural”. But how do you determine what is a...
Dr. John Rao says that in order to understand modern Holy War, it is essential to grasp the continued divisions and complexity of the modern Islamic world. One of the...
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro tells of “The Black Legends” which accuse Spain and the Church of bringing untold evils of the New World and its Indian inhabitants. Monsignor Barreiro examines this...
Dr. John Rao looks back at the practices and beliefs to come out of the Enlightenment. Taking his cue from the brilliant work of the late philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand,...
Dr. David Allen White introduces Medieval drama, explaining its various forms, its historical development from tropes inserted within the Mass to full-scale stage plays, and its purpose as an entertaining...
In his final lecture Dr. William Marra wraps up his series by offering an overall view of Confessions and Saint Augustine’s general influence on important Christian thinkers, most especially Saint...
Pope Saint Gregory the Great (590 A.D. – 654 A.D.) “Our Glorious Popes” is a ten-part series. Listening to Our Glorious Popes will refresh your appreciation of grace in the...
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...
Father Mitch Pacwa explains the influence of Carl Jung on the Church. Why did Carl Jung believe in astrology? Father Mitch Pacwa explains what influenced him and how he has...
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...
Dr. John Rao explains that in the early Middle Ages, from the 500’s through the 900’s, the Church had a number of battles with Byzantine Emperors and pagan influenced men...
Mr. Michael Davies tells the riveting story of Thomas a Becket, the 12th Century Archbishop who was first the close friend and Chancellor of King Henry II of England, and...
Dr. John Rao discusses the reactions to Chalcedon and the Monophysite Movement. Monophysites were active in both Egypt and Syria. Eventually they developed a parallel hierarchy which split the Church...
Christopher Ferrara, J.D. shows that the discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics undermine the materialist, Neo-Darwinian creation myth. Now discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics undermine the materialist,...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including the development of monasticism. One cannot understand the Fourth Century and the Church’s reaction both to the Constantinian program...
Archbishop Fulton Sheen gives an impressive eulogy for Bishop Cuthbert M. O’Gara – who heroically survived being imprisoned in China. “There he lies like a commando soldier who smashed the...
Dr. Gerald Bradley brilliantly traces the origins of the pervasive secularism and anti-Catholicism that we have today. American moral climate before 1943 was very different than it is now. He...
A discussion by Dr. John Rao of the different centers of early Christianity–Alexandria, Palestine, Antioch, Asia Minor, Rome, and Gaul–and the key Church Fathers and institutions through whose work Christian...
Visigothic, Irish, Benedictine, and Anglo-Saxon influences all came together in Frankish Gaul by the early 700’s. The Carolingian Family came to power in an alliance with the Papacy, which could...
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