Father Brian Harrison O.S. projects a vision for a new Christendom. The 18th Century enlightenment revolution rejected the premise that Christian principles must form the basis for social-political order. The...
Dr. John Rao discusses the collapse of the “Union” to the Council of Chalcedon. The highly confusing and divisive history of the Council of Ephesus seemed to reach a happy...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including the Greco-Roman ecumene. Dr. Rao discusses the character of the Roman Empire under the so-called Principate, the form of...
Archbishop Fulton J Sheen illustrates the difference between freedom and license, by demonstrating the contrast between the Church and Communism and shows that our freedom is not an independence of...
Dr. Paul Vitz, Professor of Psychology at New York University, notes that Secular Humanism has dominated much of psychology these past decades.
...Dr. Janine Langrand, in a deeply spiritual manner, gives us a superb discussion of Baroque art and architecture as a perfect complement to the Ignatian exercises. She shows how such...
Dr. John Rao explores the different problems that varied groups of invaders posed for the eastern and the western sections of the old united Empire. While the East remained more...
Dr. John Rao outlines the Gregorian Reform and the many obstacles in its path. Continued Germanic and other barbarian customs still stood in the way of Christianization and Romanization. The...
Pius IX himself saw the need for a deeper clarification of the Catholic position by 1848. The rest of his reign was spend dedicated to this work. Dr. John Rao,...
Dr. Jeffry Bond shows that someone interested in a truly serious philosophical, scientific, and historical study of the problem of man in the modern world must examine the work of...
What do Liberation and Third World Theology entail? Dr. John Rao explains that they demand the submission of the Catholic missionary and social activist to what he finds expressed in...
An exaggerated emphasis upon “human studies” could, however, lead to another form of illegitimate adulation of the ancient world, both pagan and Christian. It could also ensure an overestimate of...
Fr. Richard Munkelt describes the Enlightenment’s reinterpretation of Natural Law. The Enlightenment insisted that it was simply concerned with what is “natural”. But how do you determine what is a...
Dr. John Rao says that in order to understand modern Holy War, it is essential to grasp the continued divisions and complexity of the modern Islamic world. One of the...
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro tells of “The Black Legends” which accuse Spain and the Church of bringing untold evils of the New World and its Indian inhabitants. Monsignor Barreiro examines this...
Dr. John Rao looks back at the practices and beliefs to come out of the Enlightenment. Taking his cue from the brilliant work of the late philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand,...
Dr. David Allen White introduces Medieval drama, explaining its various forms, its historical development from tropes inserted within the Mass to full-scale stage plays, and its purpose as an entertaining...
In his final lecture Dr. William Marra wraps up his series by offering an overall view of Confessions and Saint Augustine’s general influence on important Christian thinkers, most especially Saint...
Dr. John Rao unfolds the separation of the natural and the supernatural and the ultimate consequences of the divorce of science from the Catholic world view.
...Pope Saint Gregory (1073 A.D. – 1085 A.D.) “Our Glorious Popes” is a ten-part series. Listening to Our Glorious Popes will refresh your appreciation of grace in the lives of...
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