History of Western Civilization

Christopher Ferrara explains how modern man has been “deconstructed” by the Enlightenment thinkers whose principles dominate our political and social life. John Locke, among many others, is shown to destroy...

Dr. Thomas Woods discusses Progressivism, the work of his doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, since published as a book by Columbia University Press.

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Dr. John Rao explores a variety of issues that put the Papacy in Italy on a collision course with the Empire ruled from Constantinople. Caesaro-Papism on the one hand and...

A population that needed to go on pilgrimage to God had to have a dedicated and purified clergy guiding it. Dr. John Rao speaks of how this involved a fight...

Dealing with Eastern Orthodoxy differed for Rome depending upon the region involved. Dr. John Rao discusses these varying relationships in exploring everything from Papal-Tsarist to Papal-Ottoman affairs. He also treats...

Philip the Fair of France and his pagan-minded legal advisors were the chief examples of the problem that could develop by the late 1200s. They began to use the prestige...

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.

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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...

Mr. Joseph Sobran speaks about the crisis of American Politics and its relation to the evolving Church. The progressives have had great success implanting the notion that the Church is...

Dr. David Allen White explores the “other side of chivalry”; knights were obliged to fight loyally for God and for their lords, but were also obliged to perfect courtesy toward...

Dr. David Allen White reads the moving eulogy delivered by St. John Fisher for the pious grandmother of Henry VIII. Here one gets a good sense of the learning and...

World War I was a disaster that Dr. John Rao shows the Church had long predicted and Pope Benedict was slandered for trying to end it. The Church held only...

Dr. John Rao begins with a discussion of the ancient rhetorical dislike of Plato and his insistence that a knowledge of truth had to precede action. The entry of the...

What exactly was Church life like under the Carolingians? What was the position of the Papacy, Metropolitans, Bishops, monks, and parish priests? How deeply was the Faith understood? What were...

Mr. E. Michael Jones discusses ethnic cleansing and the Catholic problem. At the beginning of the 20th century Catholics were the most powerful cultural group in America. Through ethnic cleansing,...