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...
Visigothic, Irish, Benedictine, and Anglo-Saxon influences all came together in Frankish Gaul by the early 700’s. The Carolingian Family came to power in an alliance with the Papacy, which could...
Dr. John Rao discusses the various forces which contributed to a revival of Catholic self-confidence in the years 1800-1848. These involved a number of clerical-lay circles in Germany, France, and...
The High Middle Ages had taught that Christians were involved in an exalted but highly complex, hierarchically-organized pilgrimage to God. Obstacles to completion of that pilgrimage came from all segments...
The Council of Constance finally allowed for the return of a unified Papacy located in Rome. But, as Dr. John Rao explains, the restored Papacy was threatened by Conciliarism, political...
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 maturation of the idea of Crusading. This process of maturation is shown to have taken hundreds of years, from the 600’s through the 1000’s. Maturation...
Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro speaks of the Capuchin’s work in inspiring Austria to resist the Moslems at the time of the great Ottoman siege of Vienna in 1683. Besides being a...
Fr. Paul Crane discusses issues that have arisen in the Church. In this first of this two-part series, Fr. Paul Crane, S.J., argues that certain problems in the Church have...
In this 8th part of Dr. Marra’s lecture series we are offered a deep and philosophical study of the Old Testament. Dr. Marra explains Saint Augustine’s interpretation of Genesis, and...
Father Edmund Waldstein (doctoral candidate and professor at Philosophisch-Theologische Hochschule, Austria) examines how in ancient times and throughout most of the history of Catholic philosophy, happiness was seen to be...
Pope Saint Zachary (741 A.D. – 752A.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...
Dr. David Allen White discusses the Catholic themes to be found in William Shakespeare, whose life bridges the time between the Catholic-Protestant struggle for the soul of England and Elizabeth’s...
Ambassador David Funderburk describes the horrors of the Romanian prison camps and the reality of a communist society, and more.
...The Roman Catholic Church suffered badly at the hands of the Republicans during the Spanish Civil War. Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro pays great attention to the heroic price paid by the...
What Black Legends did the Jansenists and the Enlightenment promote? Dr. John Rao outlines them as being on the one hand, the idea that the Church was a hypocritical supporter...