History of Western Civilization

Engagement with the enemy involved many initiatives. These included exploration of the use of certain modern scholarly tools in biblical research and interpretations. They also involved efforts to protect the...

There were horrific abuses in the Church in the 1400’s on every level, which Councils at Constance and Basel could do practically nothing to address. Nevertheless, Dr. John Rao explains...

Dr. David Allen White explores the work of Corneille, Racine and Moliere and the French Neoclassical Drama. Seventeenth Century French culture reflects two major spiritual and intellectual themes: those of...

Dr. John Rao speaks on the dilemmas emerging from the Great Crusades show just how much the Papacy saw fighting as only one part of the Crusading Movement. Popes like...

Mr. Michael Davies says that most people think that Martin Luther has a great reputation as a rhetorician. His writings in German were an enormously powerful aid to the Reformation....

Mr. Michael Davies asks what was life like in the Middle Ages? He tells us how ordinary folks got along in the Middle Ages; how they related to the Church...

Fr. Crane continues his discussion of problems in the modern Church. In this second part of his series Fr. Paul Crane, S.J., furthers his study of politics and the Church,...

In the third part of his series Dr. William Marra offers a valuable analyses of Saint Augustine’s depiction of the happy life, and the years he lived denying God’s Truth....

Pope Saint Gregory the Great (590 A.D. – 654 A.D.) “Our Glorious Popes” is a ten-part series. Listening to Our Glorious Popes will refresh your appreciation of grace in the...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand describes how philosophical discussions of religion are ethical in character. Philosophical discussions of morality are “ethical” in character. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand treats here of the...

Father Mitch Pacwa explains the influence of Carl Jung on the Church. Why did Carl Jung believe in astrology? Father Mitch Pacwa explains what influenced him and how he has...

The Spanish Civil War, in an intellectual sense, was the great political event of the Twentieth Century. Representatives of every possible political and social position produced by the modern world...

Dr. John Rao explains that in the early Middle Ages, from the 500’s through the 900’s, the Church had a number of battles with Byzantine Emperors and pagan influenced men...

Mr. Michael Davies tells the riveting story of Thomas a Becket, the 12th Century Archbishop who was first the close friend and Chancellor of King Henry II of England, and...

Dr. John Rao discusses the reactions to Chalcedon and the Monophysite Movement. Monophysites were active in both Egypt and Syria. Eventually they developed a parallel hierarchy which split the Church...

Christopher Ferrara, J.D. shows that the discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics undermine the materialist, Neo-Darwinian creation myth. Now discoveries in the field of quantum mechanics undermine the materialist,...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including the development of monasticism. One cannot understand the Fourth Century and the Church’s reaction both to the Constantinian program...

Archbishop Fulton Sheen gives an impressive eulogy for Bishop Cuthbert M. O’Gara – who heroically survived being imprisoned in China. “There he lies like a commando soldier who smashed the...

Dr. Gerald Bradley brilliantly traces the origins of the pervasive secularism and anti-Catholicism that we have today. American moral climate before 1943 was very different than it is now. He...

A discussion by Dr. John Rao of the different centers of early Christianity–Alexandria, Palestine, Antioch, Asia Minor, Rome, and Gaul–and the key Church Fathers and institutions through whose work Christian...