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,...
Dr. Paul Vitz looks at two theories of moral education: values clarification and Kohlberg’s stages of moral development.
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