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...
Engagement with the enemy involved many initiatives. These included exploration of the use of certain modern scholarly tools in biblical research and interpretations. They also involved efforts to protect the...
There were horrific abuses in the Church in the 1400’s on every level, which Councils at Constance and Basel could do practically nothing to address. Nevertheless, Dr. John Rao explains...
Dr. John Rao shows how all the influences that combined together to shape the Council and the postconciliar Church were used to promote Liberation and Third World Theology. Both these...
Dr. John Rao describes the assault on the Jesuits by the regalists, Jansenists and Enlightenment supporters in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Jesuits were the most clear representative of...
Dr. John Rao says the opponents of the Revolution in the nineteenth century saw themselves as fighting a battle for the defense of the consequences of the Incarnation against the...
Dr. John Rao discusses the impact of Calvinism on America and the building of the our nation and its background in the growth of the Americanist Heresy.
...Dr. John Rao explains the necessity of studying the past. In this insightful lecture, Dr. Rao looks to the Church’s past in order to better understand the crisis that we...
Dr. John Rao says that Christianity made the crusading spirit into a battle for the construction of a soul that was fit to live eternally with God, and the creation...
Dr. John Rao discusses Regalism, the Universal Church and the missions. Dr. Rao now discusses the precise ways in which Regalist demands involved many clashes of the French, Portuguese and...
Pope Saint Gregory the Great (590 A.D. – 654 A.D.) “Our Glorious Popes” is a ten-part series. Listening to Our Glorious Popes will refresh your appreciation of grace in the...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand describes how philosophical discussions of religion are ethical in character. Philosophical discussions of morality are “ethical” in character. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand treats here of the...
Father Mitch Pacwa explains the influence of Carl Jung on the Church. Why did Carl Jung believe in astrology? Father Mitch Pacwa explains what influenced him and how he has...
The Spanish Civil War, in an intellectual sense, was the great political event of the Twentieth Century. Representatives of every possible political and social position produced by the modern world...
Dr. John Rao explains that in the early Middle Ages, from the 500’s through the 900’s, the Church had a number of battles with Byzantine Emperors and pagan influenced men...
Mr. Michael Davies tells the riveting story of Thomas a Becket, the 12th Century Archbishop who was first the close friend and Chancellor of King Henry II of England, and...