History of Western Civilization

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...

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.

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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...

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...

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. William Marra explains that the Communists knew that education was the key to victory. And make no mistake, Communist propaganda didn’t bother talking about Lenin or Stalin. Communists said,...

Dr. David Allen White expounds on Dante’s masterpiece, explaining how The Divine Comedy transforms the faulty notion of courtly love into the mystical union between the soul and God. In...

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 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. 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.

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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. 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.

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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...

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 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...