Why call a Council? What issues were meant to be tackled at this Synod? What factions contended? How did papal infallibility come to be proclaimed? What role did traditionalist and...
Before weakening, the Holy Roman Emperors tried one last attempt to dominate the Church. Dr. Rao speaks of the allies which were found in Nominalist, heretical, and rebellious Church circles,...
Dr. Jeffrey Bond discusses the city and political authority. He describes community life as a means to attain virtue and as a path to God. Dr. Bond continues with particular...
Dr. John Rao describes the maturation of the idea of Crusading. This process of maturation is shown to have taken hundreds of years, from the 600’s through the 1000’s. Maturation...
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro speaks of the Capuchin’s work in inspiring Austria to resist the Moslems at the time of the great Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683. Besides being a...
Fr. Paul Crane discusses issues that have arisen in the Church. In this first of this two-part series, Fr. Paul Crane, S.J., argues that certain problems in the Church have...
In this 8th part of Dr. Marra’s lecture series we are offered a deep and philosophical study of the Old Testament. Dr. Marra explains Saint Augustine’s interpretation of Genesis, and...
Father Edmund Waldstein (doctoral candidate and professor at Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule, Austria) examines how in ancient times and throughout most of the history of Catholic philosophy, happiness was seen to be...
The basic underlying error of Russia is materialism. It comes in two forms; philosophical and economic. Much of the world now believes that matter is the only existing substance, and...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses Kierkegaard’s critique of Martin Luther. Kierkegaard, the great nineteenth century existentialist religious writer, was himself an Evangelical Christian. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses here the...
Philomena H. Chang describes her Faith as her light in the darkness of Communist China. While the Maryknoll Fathers sing the praises of the schismatic “Patriotic Church,” millions of loyal...
The Twentieth Century has witnessed the battle of all philosophies and anti-philosophies at one and the same time. Father Richard Munkelt presents a kaleidoscope of contemporary philosophical schools, ranging from...
From the middle of the 1700’s through the French Revolution and down to the present, this new Grand Coalition used all media to develop an endless variety of Black Legends....
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro discusses Spain after the fall of the Visigothic Kingdom to the Moslem invaders of 711 A.D. After describing the Christian retreat to the northern reaches of the...
Dr. John Rao discusses the Church and the Theodosian Emperors. What was the situation of the Church under the Theodosian Emperors who supported Orthodoxy versus the Arian Heresy? Dr. John...
Rev. Dr. Richard Munkelt reveals the theological and philosophical errors of the Social Contract theory upon which political modernity is built. The Social Contract theory has proved an essential role...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world particularly the Church, the Roman State and Constantine the Great. The Roman State’s relationship with Christianity was a peculiar one,...
Former Marxist Hamish Fraser of Scotland, late editor of “Approaches”, relates the authenticity of Our Lady’s warnings to a world overshadowed by Marxism and dominated by the spirit of Antichrist.
...Perhaps no Reformation era artist reflects the inner renewal and its transformation of outward physical reality more than El Greco. Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro discusses the connection between the great artist’s...
Greco-Roman culture had a clear “curriculum” which it taught with great certainty. Dr. John Rao describes here the way in which Christianity came to understand its own need for a...
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