Dr. John Rao explores a variety of issues that put the Papacy in Italy on a collision course with the Empire ruled from Constantinople. Caesaro-Papism on the one hand and...
A population that needed to go on pilgrimage to God had to have a dedicated and purified clergy guiding it. Dr. John Rao speaks of how this involved a fight...
Dealing with Eastern Orthodoxy differed for Rome depending upon the region involved. Dr. John Rao discusses these varying relationships in exploring everything from Papal-Tsarist to Papal-Ottoman affairs. He also treats...
Philip the Fair of France and his pagan-minded legal advisors were the chief examples of the problem that could develop by the late 1200s. They began to use the prestige...
Dr. John Rao explains how Regalism claimed control over many aspects of religious life in the 16th and 17th centuries. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed a further growth in...
Dr. John Rao explains that the monks of Cluny aided the maturation process enormously, teaching rough soldiers how they could use their military skills for acceptable purposes. The Pilgrimage to...
Mr. Michael Davies says John Fisher, perhaps the most neglected Saint of the Reformation era, should be juxtaposed to Martin Luther. Fisher wrote the most erudite refutation of Luther’s heresies....
Fr. George Rutler analyzes the contemporary crisis of civilization. Since the Protestant Revolution, culture has gradually taken a homo-centric turn. In the 20th century, men became cynical toward faith and...
Christopher Ferrara,Esq., critiques the notion that Catholic states should remain a thing of the past. He quotes Pope Leo XIII about Church-State relations and speaks on the undeniable benefits the...
In this lecture Dr. William Marra tells how Saint Augustine searched his memory for clues as to when he first knew God, concluding that not all human knowledge comes through...
Mr. Joseph Sobran speaks about the crisis of American Politics and its relation to the evolving Church. The progressives have had great success implanting the notion that the Church is...
Dr. David Allen White explores the “other side of chivalry”; knights were obliged to fight loyally for God and for their lords, but were also obliged to perfect courtesy toward...
Dr. David Allen White reads the moving eulogy delivered by St. John Fisher for the pious grandmother of Henry VIII. Here one gets a good sense of the learning and...
World War I was a disaster that Dr. John Rao shows the Church had long predicted and Pope Benedict was slandered for trying to end it. The Church held only...
Dr. John Rao begins with a discussion of the ancient rhetorical dislike of Plato and his insistence that a knowledge of truth had to precede action. The entry of the...
What exactly was Church life like under the Carolingians? What was the position of the Papacy, Metropolitans, Bishops, monks, and parish priests? How deeply was the Faith understood? What were...
Mr. E. Michael Jones discusses ethnic cleansing and the Catholic problem. At the beginning of the 20th century Catholics were the most powerful cultural group in America. Through ethnic cleansing,...
Father Richard Munkelt tackles the great issues that moved St. Augustine to conversion and shaped his thinking. He discusses St. Augustine’s theology of Sin, Grace and Redemption.
...Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world providing a grand tour of the early Christian world. Dr. Rao’s explanation of the wide scope and distinctions of early...
Dr. William Marra explores the virtue of patriotism and America’s destiny. Dr. Marra explores the nature of Patriotism and its effects and impact on the future of America.
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