Wilhelm Richard Wagner is another enormous influence on a century that excelled in musical accomplishments. He also illustrates the Faustian temptation, though often in the language of redemption. But what,...
Marxism-Leninism seems to have collapsed of its own contradictions inside the Christian world. Pluralism, however, has not. This has pressed the Church not only to come to terms with everything...
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...
Father Paul Trinchard gives an illuminative exposition of present spiritual dangers predicted in 1917 by Our Lady of Fatima. He explains how the the “errors of Russia” which have seeped...
Pope Pius IX (1846 A.D. – 1878 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...
Dr. William Marra explores the metaphysics in Plato and Aristotle. Christian theology in ancient and early medieval times was built more along Platonic lines. From the High Middle Ages onwards,...
Dr. John Rao continues the previous discussion by illustrating that separation of the modern from modernity involved work on many levels. It included theology, philosophy, biblical exegesis, historical studies, the...
Michael Davies describes the final battles of Napoleon and Pius VII are recounted with Napoleon’s exile to Elbe and later St. Helena. Confrontation of the sort that Mr. Davies describes...
The Christian Roman Empire of the 300’s and early 400’s ultimately split into three parts that ruled from Constantinople, from the confused Germanic dominated West, and from underneath the dominion...
Dr. James Hitchcock speaks about the Council of Trent and confronting the Reformation. The Reformation was one of the worst ruptures to threaten to Catholic Church. Whole populations were drifting...
Dr. John Rao discusses the Lombards, Persians, Moslems and Rome. The situation of the Empire was worsened due to invasions by the Lombards in Italy and the Persians and Arab...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world providing a grand tour of the early Christian world. Christianity spread very quickly throughout the Mediterranean World. Here, Dr. John...
Dr. John Rao discusses the condemnation of Galileo. Dr. John Rao, who has his doctorate in Church History, gives the factual basis for the Galileo issue.
...Dr. Ronald McArthur, a founder and President Emeritus of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, gives an urgently needed prescription for the Restoration of true Catholic Learning. He discusses...
A reflection by Father John Perricone on how so many suffered for Our Lord and the true Faith in the bloodiest century known to man.
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