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...
The Roman Empire in the East could not help the West by the 600’s. It was attacked first by Persians and then the new force represented by the Islamic world....
Dr. John Rao speaks of the way in which the Gregorian pilgrimage to God involved a deeper understanding of how the Incarnation required the transformation of all things in Christ....
Culture Wars against a more militant Catholic Church were fought in many places treated by Dr. John Rao: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Italy, and France. Particularly explosive were...
War in France made a return of the Papacy to Italy appealing. Italy, however, was in a disastrous and divided state. A return to Rome led to the Great Western...
Dr. John Rao discusses the so-called New Theology developed the modernist, vitalist, and personalist ideas that came from earlier in the century. Its concern to “dive into” and help fulfill...
Dr. John Rao describes the “back to nature” movement called the Enlightenment. The “back to nature” movement called the Enlightenment is the final element that Dr. John Rao brings in...
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. Robert Royal explains the complexities and the problems of the works of Thomas Merton and his fascination with Eastern “mysticism.”
...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...
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...
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...
Saint Peter through Saint Leo the Great (33 A.D. – 461 A.D.) “Our Glorious Popes” is a ten-part series. Listening to Our Glorious Popes will refresh your appreciation of grace...
Dr. David Allen White continues the discussion of the life and work of William Shakespeare. Working with reference to various plays and poems, Dr. David Allen White evokes here the...
Father Bonish, teacher, philosopher, and writer, gives the Church’s answer to the questions surrounding test-tube babies.
...In the American dominated Pluralist world, Catholics were called upon to be anti-communist. This was no problem, as Dr. John Rao admits. Nevertheless, they were also urged not to be...
Dr. John Rao describes how the Jansenists saw the Church’s attitude towards nature as deluded and overblown. The Enlightenment believed that nature could soar if only freed from the Church’s...
Mr. Michael Davies discusses the life of the ordinary man in Medieval England, and his relationship with his neighbors, his lord, the King, and the Church. He explores the whole...
Dr. John Rao discusses Gaul and the background of the Papal-Frankish Alliance. Dr. John Rao continues his discussion of Christianity in Merovingian Gaul. The Kingdom of the Franks under the...
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