History of Western Civilization

The new western Empire, sealed by Charlemagne’s coronation in 800, had many problems, all explored by Dr. John Rao. Bad German customs still prevented a full appreciation of Christianity and...

Dr. John Rao also emphasizes the Intellectual disputes which began to develop. Should the Church primarily revive a knowledge of Scholasticism or the Church Fathers? Speculative theology or positive theology?...

Dr. Jeffrey Bond focuses his sharp logic on the truly anti-scientific and anti-philosophical argumentation of Charles Darwin and his theory of evolution. He shows how much this involves a false...

The effects of the Enlightenment and the French Revolution were felt in both Spain and Portugal in the Old World and South America in the New. Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro discusses...

Marxism-Leninism seems to have collapsed of its own contradictions inside the Christian world. Pluralism, however, has not. This has pressed the Church not only to come to terms with everything...

Dr. John Rao discusses Protestant Naturalism. The problem of the Missions also was central to the developments tackled by Dr. Rao in these three lectures. China loomed especially large in...

Dr. John Rao says that the danger to the Papal States became more clear by 1859. A call to create an international Papal Army went out. Men from all over...

Dr. John Rao examines how Christianity has dealt with war and warriors and, to illustrate his point, traces the Church’s conversion of the Medieval warrior to the Christian Knight. A...

Dr. Warren Carroll shows the benefits of society in the Middle Ages. In this lecture, Dr. Carroll explores the effects and results of Catholic Culture in the “High Middle Ages,”...

Dr. John Rao discusses the growth of Frankish power, the Carolingians, and St. Boniface. St. Boniface realized that working with the Franks and the Carolingians was a necessary but tricky...

The problem for Catholics from the very beginning of Church History is that they have to work with nature and accept the fact that all aspects of nature have something...

Pope Saint Leo III (795A.D. -816 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 men...

Dr. David Allen White deals with one of the greatest Spanish writers of the era, Cervantes, and the genius of his major work, Don Quixote. Once again, the Catholic spirit...

Anne Roche Muggeridge discusses the progress of Catholic Revolution since the 1985 Synod. The very idea of authority is now at stake.

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Mr. Michael Davies treats here in detail of the turn of the century Modernist movement. While he admits that some of the reaction to the Modernists struck at men and...

Dr. John Rao shows that the period from the 1000’s-1200’s saw a rediscovery and reapplication of the fullness of Roman Law with its emphasis on the power of the State....

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand presents a critique of Gabriel Marcel’s work. The Twentieth Century has given birth to a variety of philosophical attempts to escape ideology and make contact with...

Dr. John Rao discusses Christology and the Council of Ephesus. The first great threat to the new orthodox order of things came through the divergences over Christology emerging out of...

James Kalb, Esq. discusses Western liberal society, how we got there, what its flaws are, why nothing else seems possible, and what we can nonetheless do about it. The talk...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world from Arianism to Post-Nicaean Arianism. This lecture on the Arianist Crisis by Dr. John Rao treats of the indirect way...