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...
Professor Ronald J. Rychlak documents stunning accolades given to Pope Pius XII for his work during the war with Hitler. The anti-Catholic forces are at work against Pope Pius XII....
Dr. John Rao describes how the first great Christian writers had to explain why their religion was an acceptable one. The Apostolic Fathers and Apologists sought to show that Christianity...
The Papal-Carolingian alliance evoked arguments from Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite to speak of life as a hierarchically-organized Pilgrimage to God led by Emperor and Bishops. Dr. John Rao discusses the character...
Dr. John Rao indicates that the entire struggle for Catholic freedom and a Catholic declaration of independence from the regalist-naturalist stranglehold was symbolized by the work of Pius IX. Pius...
Dr. David Allen White discusses Goethe, the greatest of German literary figures and an enormous influence on the nineteenth century. Goethe’s Faust and the “Faustian” temptation that lies behind the...
Dr. John Rao begins by showing that Pluralism is not really a new phenomenon, and that it always suffers from similar problems in whatever age it appears. The ancient “Hellenistic”...
Dr. John Rao explains that Nominalist, millenarian, and apocalyptic heresies continued to abound in the 1400’s. These were aided by the corruption of the Church and her hierarchy. Bishops and...
Dr. John Rao discusses the confrontations between the Jesuits and the Jansenists over the relationship between grace and free will, as well as the value of spiritual and mystical ascents...
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro tells us about Garcia Moreno, who was a cosmopolitan man of science and political reformer. Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro explains how Moreno was a model Catholic leader of...
Thomas Stark talks about a distinct Catholic philosopher of the Interwar Period. Aside from being a unique philosopher, Theodor Haecker was a a great translator of both the Danish thinker,...
Dr. John Rao lectures on the French Revolution. In this lecture Dr. Rao lectures on the terrors of the French Revolution and its relation to the Church in France.
...Dr. John Rao discusses the growth of Frankish power, the Carolingians and St. Boniface. The Kingdom of the Franks expanded eastward underneath the strongest of the Merovingians and the Carolingian...
Mr. James Kalb, a Catholic author, labors to uncover the rational precepts of liberalism. According to the governing principles of liberalism, politics, social life and morality exist to serve men’s...
Pope Saint Martin I (649 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 lives...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses Plato’s Philosophy of Education. The Renaissance era was that of the rediscovery of Plato. Much of Plato’s work in dialogues like the “Republic” and in...
The nineteenth century Catholic revival was very rich and variegated. Aspects of it had combined together by the turn of the century to create a distinct “Roman School” dominating the...
Mr. Michael Davies’ talks deal with the relationship of Pius VII, Cardinal Consalvi, and Napoleon I. It begins with the tragic death of Pius VI, on the way to exile...
There has been a battle between prominent proponents of rhetoric on one side and philosophers and theologians on the other since the ancient world. Father Richard Munkelt speaks on the...
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