Dr. David Allen White explores the work of Corneille, Racine and Moliere and the French Neoclassical Drama. Seventeenth Century French culture reflects two major spiritual and intellectual themes: those of...
Dr. John Rao speaks on the dilemmas emerging from the Great Crusades show just how much the Papacy saw fighting as only one part of the Crusading Movement. Popes like...
Mr. Michael Davies says that most people think that Martin Luther has a great reputation as a rhetorician. His writings in German were an enormously powerful aid to the Reformation....
Mr. Michael Davies asks what was life like in the Middle Ages? He tells us how ordinary folks got along in the Middle Ages; how they related to the Church...
Fr. Crane continues his discussion of problems in the modern Church. In this second part of his series Fr. Paul Crane, S.J., furthers his study of politics and the Church,...
In the third part of his series Dr. William Marra offers a valuable analyses of Saint Augustine’s depiction of the happy life, and the years he lived denying God’s Truth....
Dr. Harry Wu tells of religious persecution in China. He spent over a decade in a communist concentration camp for his anti-revolutionary writing. He tells the moving story of his...
Mr. Michael Davies shows how Pope Liberius gave in to political pressure in his talk. The great battle of Athanasius against the Arian and Arianizing Emperors brought tremendous political pressure...
Mr. Michael Davies discusses the Alexandrian and Gallican rites. Two distinct centers of liturgical importance are examined in this lecture by Mr. Michael Davies: those of Alexandria in Egypt, with...
What was the Roman School’s “program” in the years 1918-1939? Dr. John Rao illustrates how much this was connected with, on the one hand, Pius XI’s missionary concerns, and, on...
The term “The Black Legend” specifically describes a set of lies regarding Catholic Spain. Dr. John Rao speaks here of a broader “syllabus” of Black Legends, developed through the ages,...
If the Papacy thought that it would escape the kinds of Church-State problems that it had experienced in its relationship with the Emperors in Constantinople under the new alliance with...
Mr. Joseph Sobran shares his reflections as a convert on the New Millennium. From Stalin’s mystical body, to the beehive of liberalism, to the ‘alternative cuisine’ of cannibalism, Mr. Joseph...
John Rao speaks of Purification as a popular theme, 1914 onwards. The first of these four talks by Dr. Rao deals with the theme of purification of the social order....
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including the School of Alexandria. Christian theology in a sophisticated sense developed along with the foundation and growth of the...
Dr. William Marra offers a respectful and insightful analysis. The Charismatic movement is a well-meaning yet dangerous response to a real need in the Catholic Church. A good and wise...
A “bestseller” Catholic author, Mr. Michael S. Rose, describes the modernist manipulation within the Church since Vatican II.
...Dr. Roberto Herrera lectures on the Spanish dictator Franco. How can the Spanish Civil War be really called a crusade? Franco was following in the footsteps of Pelayo, in defiance...
Dr. John Rao treats here of the roots of Arianism, its rather simple basic beliefs, and its expansion in the wake of the Council of Nicaea through till the victory...
Political squabbles pitting popes against emperors, kings, princes and their supporters in the episcopacy troubled the Gregorian reform program. So did the economic ambitions of the growing cities and bourgeoisie...