Father Richard Munkelt discusses Homer and how his writings can be shown to point towards God and Christianity. St. Irenaeus spoke of “seeds of the Logos” indicating the good of...
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.
...Dr. John Rao begins with a discussion of the ancient rhetorical dislike of Plato and his insistence that a knowledge of truth had to precede action. The entry of the...
In this 4th talk, Dr. William Marra tells his listeners about three subjects from Augustine’s Confessions. The first is the constant persistence of temptation, the second is the necessity of...
The supernatural has undergone a three-pronged attack; maligning of the Church, praise of natural accomplishments over supernatural, silence concerning the supernatural. The bastions of Catholicism have succumbed to these attacks,...
Dr. Jeffrey Bond presents a Catholic critique of Hobbesian Materialism. Protestantism promotes the vision of a totally depraved world in which the sinful jungle animals we call men claw endlessly...
Dr. William Marra describes the “Errors In Behavioristic Psychology.” in this lecture. The word “psychology” means having to do with soul. Psychologist, B.F. Skinner emphasizes behavior and organism, not psychology...
Dr. David Allen White introduces Medieval drama, explaining its various forms, its historical development from tropes inserted within the Mass to full-scale stage plays, and its purpose as an entertaining...
Mr. John Mulloy discusses the poetry of Belloc and Chesterton. He notes that some of the outstanding poetry of these two great Catholic writers show how Christianity met various challenges...
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...
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...
Plato’s ideas were mostly known before the Renaissance through Neo-Platonist and the Church Fathers. One of the dialogues that the early Medievals had even a part of was the Timaeus....
Father John Perricone gives the ABC’s of Catholic Moral Theology, that branch of theology which discusses the relations of man and his free actions to God and his supernatural end,...
Dr. William Marra explains how we know objective truths. He explains that when one comes up with value judgments, one finds contradictions. When the world discovers that there are contradictions...
Father Richard Munkelt continues his discussion of Homer for Christians by showing how Homer’s writings inspire meditation on many of the great themes of Christian morality. He uses writings of...
Dr. Alice von Hildebrand talks about the life and work of the late Dietrich von Hildebrand, a man whose heart was a great as his mind. Alice von Hildebrand received...
There has been a battle between prominent proponents of rhetoric on one side and philosophers and theologians on the other since the ancient world. Father Richard Munkelt speaks on the...
In this lecture Dr. WIlliam Marra continues his study of the topics he began in his last lecture. Saint Augustine raises questions about bodily motion in relation to time and...
Plato’s Timaeus concerns the overflowing goodness of God and the creation of the world. This helped many medievals, including St. Bernard, to explain the goodness and hierarchy of the beauties...
Father John Perricone gives the ABC’s of Catholic Moral Theology, that branch of theology which discusses the relations of man and his free actions to God and his supernatural end,...