History of Western Civilization

But what were the problems of this world? Dr. John Rao shows that they involved an effort to build multicultural unity on the basis of submission to a divinized state....

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro explains St. Alphonsus Marie de Liguori’s teaching and moral theology. Jansenist rigorists caused many problems for Catholic moral teachers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. St. Alphonsus’...

Dr. John Rao describes the influence of different modern Islamic developments for places like Asia and Africa, where Moslems are so militant today. Again, the ability of certain militant Moslem...

Mr. Michael Davies shows that St. John Fisher understood where Luther’s arguments regarding Faith, Scripture, and the Eucharist would lead. Fisher was perhaps the greatest Catholic theologian confronting Luther in...

Fr. John Perricone introduces us to Martyrs of the 20th Century. Did you know that the 20th century has produced many more martyrs than any other century? Father Perricone is...

Dr. David Allen White introduces Chaucer, telling his life and focusing on his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales. Dr. White explains the connection between Chaucer and the works of Dante, Boccaccio,...

Dr. WIlliam Marra, in his penultimate lecture, explains Saint Augustine’s complex teachings on God. Saint Augustine teaches how God does not need any creature, to exist Himself, but only creates...

Dr. John Rao unfolds the separation of the natural and the supernatural and the ultimate consequences of the divorce of science from the Catholic world view.

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Pope Saint Gregory (1073 A.D. – 1085 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...

Mr. Michael Davies speaks about the Western Rising of 1549. Mr. Davies gives a history of the Reformation in England under Queen Elizabeth and shows that the average Englishmen, while...

Dr. John Rao deals with the internal Catholic debate over the program of the Roman School in the years 1918-1939. This debate involved theological methodology, missionary activity, political concerns, and...

Michael Davies recounts the showdown between Napoleon and Pius VII. Napoleon was finally excommunicated and Pius VII taken prisoner. Napoleon never wanted a truly independent Catholic Church, but he did...

The missions in the West under the Carolingians most concerned the Saxons and some of the Scandinavians and Slavs. Saint Boniface was disturbed by the meshing together of politics and...

Fr. Richard Munkelt, Ph.D. engages Dr. David Berlinski with a series of probing questions. Is Intelligent Design science or religion? Is chance the basis for the universe? In his inimitable...

Dr. John Rao discusses the Irish monks, the Merovingians and the Carolingians. Irish monasticism emphasized the need of going into exile for Christ’s sake. They became great evangelists. One of...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including the Greeks, Romans, Jews and education and life in the Roman Empire. Greco-Roman culture on the one hand, and...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world and building Christendom. Christian problems of the Fourth and early Fifth Centuries ought not to take our attention away from...

Mr. Christopher A. Ferrera discusses the attack on substance in this talk. Martin Luther and the Protestant Revolution set into motion two of the most harmful strains of thought in...

Monsignor Stephen DiGiovanni says “Quanta Cura” (Condemning Current Errors) was intended to be a religious document, not political. The Pope intended it for private use of the bishops. When it...

One of the greatest early problems of Church History was a rigorism that did not wish to allow Penance to have the role that it must in the life of...