Dr. John Rao discusses Protestant Naturalism. The problem of the Missions also was central to the developments tackled by Dr. Rao in these three lectures. China loomed especially large in...
Dr. John Rao says that the danger to the Papal States became more clear by 1859. A call to create an international Papal Army went out. Men from all over...
Dr. John Rao examines how Christianity has dealt with war and warriors and, to illustrate his point, traces the Church’s conversion of the Medieval warrior to the Christian Knight. A...
Dr. Warren Carroll shows the benefits of society in the Middle Ages. In this lecture, Dr. Carroll explores the effects and results of Catholic Culture in the “High Middle Ages,”...
Dr. John Rao discusses the growth of Frankish power, the Carolingians, and St. Boniface. St. Boniface realized that working with the Franks and the Carolingians was a necessary but tricky...
The problem for Catholics from the very beginning of Church History is that they have to work with nature and accept the fact that all aspects of nature have something...
Christopher Ferrara, esq, explains that conservatives must find the courage to confront questions of justice rather than run away from them. America’s judicial conservatives continue to appeal to the will...
Pope Boniface VIII (1294 A.D.- 1303 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 speaks about the Bishop and martyr, St. John Fisher. John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester, and the heroic defender of the Papacy under King Henry VIII, was the...
Dr. John Rao shows that Pope Leo XIII to begin with, and Pius X much more so, had to find a way to separate what was merely modern and innovative...
Michael Davies describes the election of Pius VII, the signing of the concordat with France and the crowning of Napoleon. Napoleon, who was both a revolutionary and a man of...
Father Richard Munkelt discusses the influence of the Enlightenment and Enlightenment rhetoric on the political life of colonial America and the early Republic. These are shown to have favored an...
Father Brian Harrison O.S. projects a vision for a new Christendom. The 18th Century enlightenment revolution rejected the premise that Christian principles must form the basis for social-political order. The...
Dr. John Rao discusses the collapse of the “Union” to the Council of Chalcedon. The highly confusing and divisive history of the Council of Ephesus seemed to reach a happy...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including the Greco-Roman ecumene. Dr. Rao discusses the character of the Roman Empire under the so-called Principate, the form of...
Archbishop Fulton J Sheen illustrates the difference between freedom and license, by demonstrating the contrast between the Church and Communism and shows that our freedom is not an independence of...
Dr. Paul Vitz, Professor of Psychology at New York University, notes that Secular Humanism has dominated much of psychology these past decades.
...Dr. Janine Langrand, in a deeply spiritual manner, gives us a superb discussion of Baroque art and architecture as a perfect complement to the Ignatian exercises. She shows how such...
Dr. John Rao explores the different problems that varied groups of invaders posed for the eastern and the western sections of the old united Empire. While the East remained more...
Dr. John Rao outlines the Gregorian Reform and the many obstacles in its path. Continued Germanic and other barbarian customs still stood in the way of Christianization and Romanization. The...
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