Dr. John Rao says that Pluralism proclaims a need to recognize diversity and allow everyone freedom to operate. Authority is set aside, and every group is granted license of belief....
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 critiques the proofs of St. Thomas Aquinas. The most famous student of Aristotle in the medieval West was St. Thomas. He had to demonstrate if and how...
Mr. Michael Davies gives a biography of the illustrious English convert John Henry Newman. Newman started the Tractarian Movement, later referred to as the Oxford Movement, which began a tide...
In this lecture Dr. William Marra tells how Saint Augustine searched his memory for clues as to when he first knew God, concluding that not all human knowledge comes through...
Mr. Edwin Faust gives the lecture, Original Sin in Fact and Fiction. Mr. Faust recounts his childhood introduction to the Good, the True and the Beautiful as it was conveyed...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses Blaise Pascal’s life and work. One of the greatest critics of Descartes in seventeenth century France was Pascal. His God, the God of Abraham, Isaac,...
David Allen White says God created man with the ability to continue creation, primarily through procreation, but also through the arts. Man is called to create what is beautiful because...
Dr. David Allen White introduces Chaucer, telling his life and focusing on his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales. Dr. White explains the connection between Chaucer and the works of Dante, Boccaccio,...
Dr. John Rao discusses the topic of Humanism? “What, actually, is Humanism? Is Catholicism, as such, its enemy?
...Ancient literature and ancient rhetorical arguments were rediscovered and used by many Humanists from the 1300’s onwards. Dr. John Rao explains that they often now attacked the Christian concern for...
In the third part of his series Dr. William Marra offers a valuable analyses of Saint Augustine’s depiction of the happy life, and the years he lived denying God’s Truth....
Dr. William Marra speaks about true happiness. Dr. William Marra contrasts the prevailing trend toward egotism and self-fulfillment with that of happiness attained through spiritual peace and liberation from ‘self.’
...Dr. John Rao discusses theological methodology, including whether it was influenced by Descartes and Newton, in the 1600s and 1700s. Another source of debate regarding teaching in the 1600’s and...
Father Paul Crane, S.J., deals with the supernatural task of the Church and the new humanism which is in danger of supplanting it.
...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,...