Dr. William Marra discusses the problem of evil. Gnostic influences, so strong at the time of the late Empire, led many men to presume that the evils of nature indicate...
World War II placed the Church in an impossible position. It could not support a Nazi Europe. On the other hand, it could not rejoice over an Allied victory signifying...
Already in the ancient world, a “Grand Coalition” of anti-Catholic forces had gathered together. This included not only the “word merchants”, interested in selling recipes for “success”, but also philosophers...
The Eastern part of the old united Roman Empire was ripped apart by the Iconoclast Heresy in the 700’s and early 800’s. Dr. John Rao discusses the nature of that...
Sister M. Marchione discusses Pope Pius XII and his role in helping the Jews during the Third Reich’s reign. Pius XII has been blacklisted for his “silence” during the Third...
Dr. John Rao discusses Gaul and the background of the Papal-Frankish alliance. Both papal pragmatism as well as frustration with a political/religious order under the authority of the emperors in...
Dr. John Rao shows how all the influences that combined together to shape the Council and the postconciliar Church were used to promote Liberation and Third World Theology. Both these...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including early heresies. Christ warned us that heresies would come. They were already alive in the First, Second and early...
Dr. John Rao describes the assault on the Jesuits by the regalists, Jansenists and Enlightenment supporters in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Jesuits were the most clear representative of...
Dr. William Marra presents C. S. Lewis, critic, author, and philosopher, as the perfect “General Practitioner” for the diseases of Skepticism and Relativism in the 20th century.
...Dr. John Rao says the opponents of the Revolution in the nineteenth century saw themselves as fighting a battle for the defense of the consequences of the Incarnation against the...
Mr. Christopher Ferrara, Esq., posits that the modernist perception of the right to religious liberty is an erroneous and harmful illusion. Catholic Tradition: Old Rites – New Rights: Phantom Right...
Dr. John Rao discusses the impact of Calvinism on America and the building of the our nation and its background in the growth of the Americanist Heresy.
...Dr. R. V. Young dispels pagan myths concerning the origins of the Gospel and explains how the Council of Trent fostered the promotion of genuine art in Catholic churches.
...Dr. John Rao explains the necessity of studying the past. In this insightful lecture, Dr. Rao looks to the Church’s past in order to better understand the crisis that we...
Visigothic Spain developed a rich Catholic culture from the 500’s through the early 700’s, which was important for the development of the whole Christian Medieval West. Dr. John Rao shows...
Dr. John Rao says that Christianity made the crusading spirit into a battle for the construction of a soul that was fit to live eternally with God, and the creation...
Christianization and Romanization required a deeper learning in the High Middle Ages. Dr. John Rao shows that this involved studies in theology, philosophy, and law in the period from 1000-1300...
Dr. John Rao discusses Regalism, the Universal Church and the missions. Dr. Rao now discusses the precise ways in which Regalist demands involved many clashes of the French, Portuguese and...
Dr. John Rao tackles Leo XIII’s efforts to do two things simultaneously. One was to provide a more detailed, positive Catholic Social Theory opposed to the Enlightenment. A second was...
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