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...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world and the problems of the New Christian Order. There were many other problems that the emerging Christian order had to...
Dr. William Marra discusses true Social Justice. Do the rich have an obligation to help the poor and the destitute? Dr. Marra, citing Papal teaching as a guide, stresses the...
Bishop Thomas D. Doran tells us that the Council of Trent stemmed the tide of the Protestant Reformation. We cannot disregard the past. It is clear that something is greatly...
Dr. John Rao introduces this Symposium on life in the Empire and its relation to the barbarian world in the years between the defeat at Adrianople in the 370’s and...
Popes, bishops, monks, and secular clergy all fell prey to simony and barbarism by the late 800’s, to a large degree due to the failure of the attempt to restore...
Such early nineteenth century circles, which concerned themselves with theological, philosophical, spiritual/mystical, historical, catechetical, liturgical, literary, missionary, and political and social issues are discussed here by Dr. John Rao in...
Another obstacle to the thirteenth century pilgrimage to God was, Dr. John Rao indicates, intellectual disunity, something that the university “think tanks” were supposed to overcome. Supporters and opponents of...
The movement called Humanism reintroduced a love for literature, history, the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, Plato, and the Bible into Catholic Christendom. These “human” as opposed to “divine” studies...
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...