Michael Matt discusses the reasons why many American Catholics no longer understand their Faith. Many heroic Catholics in France gave their lives to defend the Church and its cause during...
Dr. John Rao regards Luther and Calvin. In this lecture Dr. John Rao discusses the sterility of the doctrines of Protestantism. He goes into detail on the negative effects their...
Germanic customs also badly affected politics. The Empire was looked upon as a family territory to be divided among the heirs of Louis the Pious, already causing problems when the...
Dr. Paul Vitz presents a study of the Christian background of Sigmund Freud. An excellent study of Sigmund Freud’s Christian background and work by Dr. Paul Vitz.
...With the collapse of Soviet Communism the socialist idea has not disappeared and perhaps has not even been weakened. The environmentalists, for example, who strive after a natural utopia stripped...
Dr. David Allen White richly analyzes Dante’s Divine Comedy.In Part II, Dr. White richly analyzes the Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso in light of Catholic thought. Taken from: Christianity...
Dr. William Marra speaks about God as known by Faith and Reason. The High Middle Ages provided the background for a variety of attempts to prove the existence of God...
Pius XI spoke of the Roman School’s program as the construction of a New Christendom. This faced many secular obstacles in the form of Marxism-Leninism, Fascism, Nazism, and the continued...
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...
Irish and Benedictine monks both worked to convert Anglo-Saxon Britain. There, Dr. John Rao explains, they influenced one another and finally built the vision of a monastic life combining work,...
Battles in the years from the 1850’s through the 1880’s were very bitter. Bishops and ordinary priests suffered imprisonment in many cases. Some religious orders left countries of their origin....
Why call a Council? What issues were meant to be tackled at this Synod? What factions contended? How did papal infallibility come to be proclaimed? What role did traditionalist and...
Before weakening, the Holy Roman Emperors tried one last attempt to dominate the Church. Dr. Rao speaks of the allies which were found in Nominalist, heretical, and rebellious Church circles,...