History of Western Civilization

Dr. John Rao explains that Protestant preachers obsessed with charismatic presentations of the inner meaning of the written Word were part of the anti-theology and anti-philosophy movement that began in...

The East experienced a period of revival under the Macedonian Dynasty, which lasted until the middle of the 1000’s. This growth, following the end of the Iconoclast Heresy, also gave...

Recorded when Patrick Buchanan was running for President, he talks about a range of political issues, including whether the Mass of Saint Pius V would be celebrated in the White...

John Rao addresses the subject of Competition in the Call for Purification, 1919-1939. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church was not the only voice offering a purification message competing with that of...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world particularly Christian life in the 200’s A.D. What was Christian life like by the 200’s A.D.? What did Christians think...

In this excellent talk, Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., acutely demonstrates how our “Enlightened” 20th Century Moloch world is at the root of the Jonestown tragedy. He explains the causes of...

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro treats the riches of Catholic political thought in the 16th and 17th century. That thought, which involved a variety of Jesuit scholars in particular, brought forth serious...

Chris Ferrara continues a discussion about the modern world and Pope Saint Pius X. Mr. Ferrara describes how, at the turn of the 20th century, Pope Saint Pius X condemned...

The Franks in Gaul under the Merovingian Dynasty led by Clovis and his descendents were the first German tribe to become Catholic. Dr. John Rao explains that their history from...

The monks of Cluny and others like them saw two groups that had to be “transformed” before all others: the soldiers and the clergy. In order to do this work...

Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the great religious and counterrevolutionary writers of the nineteenth century. He saw Russia and Russian Orthodoxy as being central to the battle for Christianity and...

Discussions of what to do to save the Crusades grew stronger after the total loss of the Holy Land in the late 1200’s. Dr. John Rao discusses the various crusading...

Dr. Jeffrey Bond discusses the city and political authority. He describes community life as a means to attain virtue and as a path to God. Dr. Bond continues with particular...

Dr. John Rao describes the assault on the Church Universal over politics, society, education, and in internal affairs in the 17th and 18th centuries. Dr. Rao now explains that the...

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro discusses the development and fiery preaching career of the great seventeenth century Capuchin friar, Marco D’Aviano. Taken from Crusading, the Crusader & the Christian Order – 2002...

Monsignor William Smith renders a most brilliant and definitive presentation on Liberation Theology–its Latin-American origins and its materialistic ideology wrapped in Christian garments for the establishment of Karl Marx’s “New...

In this fifth lecture Dr. William Marra closely studies certain questions Saint Augustine asks in relation to God and eternity, such as what time is and how it relates to...

Mr. Michael Davies describes John Wycliff and the first Protestants, the Lollards. John Wycliffe was, after the Catharists, perhaps the most clear cut heretic of the era. His whole approach...

Hinduism, a complex and contradictory system, promotes the worship of “enlightened God-men called Gurus.” However this dramatized study describes how Hinduism has gained a foothold in the west.

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Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand tackles a necessary but difficult subject: the personality of Luther and his troubled psychology. Anyone familiar with Luther’s language and his increasing paranoia and conviction of...