History of Western Civilization

Thomas Stark talks about a distinct Catholic philosopher of the Interwar Period. Aside from being a unique philosopher, Theodor Haecker was a a great translator of both the Danish thinker,...

Dr. John Rao lectures on the French Revolution. In this lecture Dr. Rao lectures on the terrors of the French Revolution and its relation to the Church in France.

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Dr. John Rao discusses the growth of Frankish power, the Carolingians and St. Boniface. The Kingdom of the Franks expanded eastward underneath the strongest of the Merovingians and the Carolingian...

Mr. James Kalb, a Catholic author, labors to uncover the rational precepts of liberalism. According to the governing principles of liberalism, politics, social life and morality exist to serve men’s...

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...

The ravages of feudal soldiers in the West made the task of Christianizing and Romanizing the military a primary one. This was tackled by offering them the defensive role of...

The next four talks by Dr. John Rao discuss the various dilemmas and disagreements arising from this movement of Catholic rediscovery. They caused clashes not only with enemies of Catholicism,...

Wilhelm Richard Wagner is another enormous influence on a century that excelled in musical accomplishments. He also illustrates the Faustian temptation, though often in the language of redemption. But what,...