Father Richard Munkelt shows that the Islamic world had a rich philosophical history in the Middle Ages, including thinkers who worked with theologians and Sufi mystics and others who posed...
Dr. Thomas Stark shows that the Socialist visions of creation of a New Man and a New Society are a major part of the modern mythology. Dr. Stark demonstrates how...
Dr. Robert Royal explains the complexities and the problems of the works of Thomas Merton and his fascination with Eastern “mysticism.”
...Dr. William Marra explores the virtue of patriotism and America’s destiny. Dr. Marra explores the nature of Patriotism and its effects and impact on the future of America.
...Dr. John Rao describes the intellect of Pope Pius IX. In this lecture, Dr. Rao presents a most enlightening and scholarly portrait of Pius IX, the total demeanor of the...
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. John Rao discusses the reactions to Chalcedom and Monophysite Movement. This and the following two talks by Dr. John Rao cover the controversial Council of Chalcedon and reactions to...
Dr. Thomas Woods discusses Progressivism, the work of his doctoral dissertation at Columbia University, since published as a book by Columbia University Press.
...David Hughes discusses the revival of traditional Church Music in the Post-French Revolutionary world and what it really entailed. He points out that the post French Revolutionary world saw a...
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...
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...
Marxism-Leninism seems to have collapsed of its own contradictions inside the Christian world. Pluralism, however, has not. This has pressed the Church not only to come to terms with everything...
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