Dr. John Rao presents a most perceptive analysis of the current world-view of the “free autonomous man” and the results of this view: enslavement to the irrational, enslavement to the...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses Kierkegaard’s critique of Martin Luther. Kierkegaard, the great nineteenth century existentialist religious writer, was himself an Evangelical Christian. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses here the...
Mr. Michael Davies discusses the history of the Parent Rites, specifically the Antiochian Rite of the Mass. Syria, with the great metropolis of Antioch, from which emerged men like St....
Dr. John Rao shows that Pope Leo XIII to begin with, and Pius X much more so, had to find a way to separate what was merely modern and innovative...
Mr. Michael Davies gives the history of the Anglican Ordinal from Thomas Cranmer to Leo XIII. Even though prominent Catholic prelates treat Anglican ministers as if they were priests, Anglican...
Dr. John Rao describes how the Jansenists saw the Church’s attitude towards nature as deluded and overblown. The Enlightenment believed that nature could soar if only freed from the Church’s...
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks of the Fourth Commandment and the respect and honor due to our Parents as well as the importance of Family Life and Community.
...Father Kenneth Baker, S.J., gives a homily in which he speaks of how the Bible is a text inspired by God, entrusted to the Church for the nurturing and guidance...
Dr. William Marra discusses the present crisis in the Eucharistic Faith. Belief in the Dogma of the Real Presence has declined at a startling rate since the Second Vatican Council....
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 from Alexandria to Antioch. Origen’s profound theological influence extended into Palestine, Syria and Asia Minor. Here it also encountered many...
Dr. John Rao discusses dangerous trends in the Church in America which are also showing in other ‘affluent’ Western Countries.
...Dr. Ronald McArthur comments on Pope Benedict XVI’s important Regensberg lecture. We go the the first principles, starting with the Gospel of John. Faith and reason has been severed by...
Monsignor William Smith will hold your attention with his humor and intelligence while filling you with so many facts and anecdotes for your apostolate! Sacred doctrine makes sound morality along...
Dr. John Rao shows that two distinct theological approaches clashed in the early Church. One, emerging from Alexandria and tied with the work of Origen, was highly allegorical in its...
The new western Empire, sealed by Charlemagne’s coronation in 800, had many problems, all explored by Dr. John Rao. Bad German customs still prevented a full appreciation of Christianity and...
Protestant competition, and revival of Catholic religious orders backed by the aid of clerical-lay circles in Europe and the Papacy increased missionary activity in the nineteenth century. Exploration in Africa...
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,...
The modern resurrection of the ancient world, with its bad as well as its good aspects, ultimately ended, after World War II, with the option to accept either Marxism or...
Fr. Richard Munkelt describes the Enlightenment’s reinterpretation of Natural Law. The Enlightenment insisted that it was simply concerned with what is “natural”. But how do you determine what is a...