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...
Dr. John Rao discusses the Teaching Authority Problems West and East (1648-1799) Trent called for solid teaching. There remained, however, problems for identifying whence that solid teaching would come. Dr....
Dr. John Rao explains that the external Crusades had to be accompanied by an internal crusade versus heresy, confused thinking in general, and corruption in the clergy and in the...
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro’s talks on Isabella is closely connected with the first. It illustrates the Queen’s truly Catholic political policies and makes clear the reasons why Spain became a breeding...
Fr. O’Connor addresses the Church in the modern world. This a most important address wherein Fr. John O’Connor unfolds the trials of the Church in today’s world – this era...
Dr. David Allen White explains the nature and importance of stories in general, as images of the act of Creation, and explores in detail the greatest of the Chansons de...
In this 4th talk, Dr. William Marra tells his listeners about three subjects from Augustine’s Confessions. The first is the constant persistence of temptation, the second is the necessity of...
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.
...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...
Dr. John Rao presents Louis Veuillot – Herald of the Catholic Counter-Revolution. Dr. Rao acquaints the listener with Louis Veuillot, the innovative 19th century French Catholic layman, satirist, and editor...