One obstacle to the organized pilgrimage to God was, Dr. John Rao argues, failure to recognize papal guidance of the line of march. Opposition came from the Eastern Churches, led...
Nineteenth century struggles in Iberia and South America involved persecution of the Church, expropriations of her property, and thorough-going secularization of political and social life. Masonic movements were very active....
But what were the problems of this world? Dr. John Rao shows that they involved an effort to build multicultural unity on the basis of submission to a divinized state....
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro explains St. Alphonsus Marie de Liguori’s teaching and moral theology. Jansenist rigorists caused many problems for Catholic moral teachers in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. St. Alphonsus’...
Dr. John Rao describes the influence of different modern Islamic developments for places like Asia and Africa, where Moslems are so militant today. Again, the ability of certain militant Moslem...
Mr. Michael Davies shows that St. John Fisher understood where Luther’s arguments regarding Faith, Scripture, and the Eucharist would lead. Fisher was perhaps the greatest Catholic theologian confronting Luther in...
Fr. John Perricone introduces us to Martyrs of the 20th Century. Did you know that the 20th century has produced many more martyrs than any other century? Father Perricone is...
Dr. David Allen White introduces Chaucer, telling his life and focusing on his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales. Dr. White explains the connection between Chaucer and the works of Dante, Boccaccio,...
Dr. WIlliam Marra, in his penultimate lecture, explains Saint Augustine’s complex teachings on God. Saint Augustine teaches how God does not need any creature, to exist Himself, but only creates...
Pope Innocent III (1198 A.D.- 1216 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 men...
Mr. Michael Davies begins with a treatment of the solid but parochially-minded Church in England before the Reformation. He then shows how Henry VIII, on personal and political grounds, aided...
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...