Dr. William Marra explains that the Communists knew that education was the key to victory. And make no mistake, Communist propaganda didn’t bother talking about Lenin or Stalin. Communists said,...
Dr. David Allen White expounds on Dante’s masterpiece, explaining how The Divine Comedy transforms the faulty notion of courtly love into the mystical union between the soul and God. In...
Dr. William Marra discusses the problem of evil. Gnostic influences, so strong at the time of the late Empire, led many men to presume that the evils of nature indicate...
World War II placed the Church in an impossible position. It could not support a Nazi Europe. On the other hand, it could not rejoice over an Allied victory signifying...
Already in the ancient world, a “Grand Coalition” of anti-Catholic forces had gathered together. This included not only the “word merchants”, interested in selling recipes for “success”, but also philosophers...
The Eastern part of the old united Roman Empire was ripped apart by the Iconoclast Heresy in the 700’s and early 800’s. Dr. John Rao discusses the nature of that...
Dr. John Rao discusses the so-called New Theology developed the modernist, vitalist, and personalist ideas that came from earlier in the century. Its concern to “dive into” and help fulfill...
Sister M. Marchione discusses Pope Pius XII and his role in helping the Jews during the Third Reich’s reign. Pius XII has been blacklisted for his “silence” during the Third...
Dr. John Rao describes the “back to nature” movement called the Enlightenment. The “back to nature” movement called the Enlightenment is the final element that Dr. John Rao brings in...
Dr. John Rao discusses Gaul and the background of the Papal-Frankish alliance. Both papal pragmatism as well as frustration with a political/religious order under the authority of the emperors in...
Father Richard Munkelt shows that the Islamic world had a rich philosophical history in the Middle Ages, including thinkers who worked with theologians and Sufi mystics and others who posed...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including early heresies. Christ warned us that heresies would come. They were already alive in the First, Second and early...
Dr. Robert Royal explains the complexities and the problems of the works of Thomas Merton and his fascination with Eastern “mysticism.”
...Dr. William Marra presents C. S. Lewis, critic, author, and philosopher, as the perfect “General Practitioner” for the diseases of Skepticism and Relativism in the 20th century.
...Dr. John Rao describes the intellect of Pope Pius IX. In this lecture, Dr. Rao presents a most enlightening and scholarly portrait of Pius IX, the total demeanor of the...
Mr. Christopher Ferrara, Esq., posits that the modernist perception of the right to religious liberty is an erroneous and harmful illusion. Catholic Tradition: Old Rites – New Rights: Phantom Right...
Dr. John Rao discusses the reactions to Chalcedom and Monophysite Movement. This and the following two talks by Dr. John Rao cover the controversial Council of Chalcedon and reactions to...
Dr. R. V. Young dispels pagan myths concerning the origins of the Gospel and explains how the Council of Trent fostered the promotion of genuine art in Catholic churches.
...David Hughes discusses the revival of traditional Church Music in the Post-French Revolutionary world and what it really entailed. He points out that the post French Revolutionary world saw a...
Visigothic Spain developed a rich Catholic culture from the 500’s through the early 700’s, which was important for the development of the whole Christian Medieval West. Dr. John Rao shows...
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