What was necessary for Christian theology to develop? Dr. John Rao discusses the obstacles that had to be overcome in order even to begin developing a theology, as well as...
Napoleonic and Restoration Europe was still not a world that the Catholic Church could enjoy. It was too regalist and too naturalist. Dr. John Rao discusses how secularist State interference...
Protestant competition, and revival of Catholic religious orders backed by the aid of clerical-lay circles in Europe and the Papacy increased missionary activity in the nineteenth century. Exploration in Africa...
One obstacle to the organized pilgrimage to God was, Dr. John Rao argues, failure to recognize papal guidance of the line of march. Opposition came from the Eastern Churches, led...
Nineteenth century struggles in Iberia and South America involved persecution of the Church, expropriations of her property, and thorough-going secularization of political and social life. Masonic movements were very active....
The modern resurrection of the ancient world, with its bad as well as its good aspects, ultimately ended, after World War II, with the option to accept either Marxism or...
Dr. Jeffrey Bond presents a Catholic critique of the American Founding. James Madison and The Federalist Papers were both instrumental in creating and achieving confirmation of the American Constitution. Dr....
Dr. John Rao says that Pope Pius IX was the most important symbol of the Catholic declaration of independence from secular enslavement in the 1800’s. Love for him, Dr. Rao...
Michael Matt discusses the reasons why many American Catholics no longer understand their Faith. Many heroic Catholics in France gave their lives to defend the Church and its cause during...
Dr. John Rao regards Luther and Calvin. In this lecture Dr. John Rao discusses the sterility of the doctrines of Protestantism. He goes into detail on the negative effects their...
Germanic customs also badly affected politics. The Empire was looked upon as a family territory to be divided among the heirs of Louis the Pious, already causing problems when the...
Dr. Paul Vitz presents a study of the Christian background of Sigmund Freud. An excellent study of Sigmund Freud’s Christian background and work by Dr. Paul Vitz.
...Pope Innocent III (1198 A.D.- 1216 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...
Mr. Michael Davies begins with a treatment of the solid but parochially-minded Church in England before the Reformation. He then shows how Henry VIII, on personal and political grounds, aided...
Modernity, Dr. John Rao argues, had intellectually deconstructed itself as much as possible by the end of the nineteenth century. What was left to do was to deconstruct itself politically...
Dr. David Allen White explores the question of how this concept in general and the cinema in particular can help or hurt the search for the eternal Truth, incarnated by...
Catholics have often shown themselves incapable of responding to the Black Legends. Why is this the case? Dr. John Rao explores reasons for Catholic apologetic failures and argues that a...
Mr. James Bogle, UK Barrister and Catholic activist, delivers a balanced and elegant appraisal of the leading models of the universe. Mr. Bogle demonstrates that Einstein’s Theory of Relativity is...
Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. Ultimately, Anglo-Saxon Britain was Christianized by Benedictine and Irish monks who clashed but also complemented one another in important sections...
Jonathan Arrington addresses one of the main pillars of modernity – the attempt to recreate reality on the basis of individual subjectivism, whether intellectual or sentimental in character. One of...