Laura Berquist describes the three pillars of a solid Classical Catholic Education – Reading, Latin and Math. Latin especially is valuable as it helps in mastery of all subject areas....
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. William Marra presents a friendly phenomenologically-based view of Descartes, whose life and work he describes. Descartes’ influence, in fighting a magical view of nature, in turning inward to reach...
Father John Perricone reflects on human beings as redeemed creatures in the talk, “Man Is Not An Animal.” A reflection on the fact that human beings do not exist to...
Dr. David Allen White analyses the person and poetry of Petrarch, who arguably introduced the literary forms of the High Middle Ages in the 14th century, specifically the sonnet. Petrarch...
Dr. William Marra speaks about God as known by Faith and Reason. The High Middle Ages provided the background for a variety of attempts to prove the existence of God...
Dietrich von Hildebrand was an inspiration for many traditionalist Catholics. Here, Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses his formation, his conversion, his concern for phenomenology, his Christocentric vision, and his fight...
Laura Berquist answers a variety of questions related to Catholic Classical Education and homeschooling. How can parents teach subjects they are not experts in and continue to learn themselves? What...
Dr. William Marra presents a lucid analysis of the Humanist Manifesto and how its philosophical Atheism dominates our society.
...Dr. William Marra discusses Spinoza and the Nature of God. A number of Christian believers like Descartes were working in the seventeenth century to desacralize nature in order to free...
Dr. David Allen White lectures on the literary and religious significance of Dante Alighieri and Thomas Stearns Eliot.
...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 St. Anselm’s proof for the existence of God. Perhaps the greatest early scholastic mind using logic to prove the existence of God was St. Anselm of...
Dr. David Allen White illuminates the fact that serious artists have always understood the role of both tragedy and comedy as the two essential sides of the dramatic coin. The...
By means of an introduction Dr. Marra opens his first lecture by studying Augustine’s first philosophical writings, before his conversion, and then his baptism on Easter in 387 A.D. as...
According to Dr. William Marra, with or without Philosophy, we will live this life and learn. On the way, however, we will need to be armed with clear thinking to...
Dr. William Marra discusses the life and work of the philosopher, Leibnitz, the first economist. An extremely sympathetic philosopher of the period is Leibnitz. Leibnitz was eager to underline the...
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...