Dr. John Rao discusses theological methodology, including whether it was influenced by Descartes and Newton, in the 1600s and 1700s. Another source of debate regarding teaching in the 1600’s and...
Dr. John Rao says that threats to Christian security very much increased with the Ottoman victory over Byzantium. Dr. Rao describes the Ottoman advance, which continued, seemingly unabated, into Africa...
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro explains how the Inquisition is one of the main targets of the promoters of the Black Legends. Monsignor Barreiro discusses the reasons for the Inquisition, the distinctions...
Mr. Michael Davies gives the history of the Anglican Ordinal. He discusses in detail the Anglican Ordinal from the time of Thomas Cranmer to Leo XIII. Even though prominent Catholic...
Dr. David Allen White analyses the person and poetry of Petrarch, who arguably introduced the literary forms of the High Middle Ages in the 14th century, specifically the sonnet. Petrarch...
In this lecture Dr. WIlliam Marra continues his study of the topics he began in his last lecture. Saint Augustine raises questions about bodily motion in relation to time and...
Saint Peter through Saint Leo the Great (33 A.D. – 461 A.D.) “Our Glorious Popes” is a ten-part series. Listening to Our Glorious Popes will refresh your appreciation of grace...
Dr. David Allen White continues the discussion of the life and work of William Shakespeare. Working with reference to various plays and poems, Dr. David Allen White evokes here the...
Father Bonish, teacher, philosopher, and writer, gives the Church’s answer to the questions surrounding test-tube babies.
...In the American dominated Pluralist world, Catholics were called upon to be anti-communist. This was no problem, as Dr. John Rao admits. Nevertheless, they were also urged not to be...
Dr. John Rao describes how the Jansenists saw the Church’s attitude towards nature as deluded and overblown. The Enlightenment believed that nature could soar if only freed from the Church’s...
Mr. Michael Davies discusses the life of the ordinary man in Medieval England, and his relationship with his neighbors, his lord, the King, and the Church. He explores the whole...
Dr. John Rao discusses Gaul and the background of the Papal-Frankish Alliance. Dr. John Rao continues his discussion of Christianity in Merovingian Gaul. The Kingdom of the Franks under the...
Dr. John Rao discusses the idea that modernity can seriously be critiqued in and of itself as opposed to being chastised merely for failure to live up to its supposedly...
Dr. John C. Rao is professor of history at St. John’s University and Director of the Roman Forum. This second talk shows how Catholics were influenced by the Moderate Enlightenment’s...
Dr. John Rao discusses dangerous trends in the Church in America which are also showing in other ‘affluent’ Western Countries.
...Plato’s ideas were mostly known before the Renaissance through Neo-Platonist and the Church Fathers. One of the dialogues that the early Medievals had even a part of was the Timaeus....
Dr. John Rao discusses the character of life and organization of government and society in the two main eras of the Roman Empire: the Principate (from Augustus until the 200’s...
Dr. John Rao presents a summary of some of the Christological heresies emerging out of the earlier Trinitarian battles. These led to the discussions of Christ’s divine and human natures...
Another problem emerged from the effort to strengthen the backbone of the Church authorities. When bishops of national Churches did not respond, supporters of the Ultramontanist movement calling for the...
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