Notable Speakers

Dr. Alice von Hildebrand expounds on the extremely rich role of womanhood and true femininity. The privilege of being a woman is most completely realized in the vocation of motherhood....

Fr. Kenneth Baker discusses Paul’s letter to Philemon. Paul pleads with Philemon, master of the runaway slave Onesimus, to receive him back and not to punish him. This is the...

Dr. John Rao regards Luther and Calvin. In this lecture Dr. John Rao discusses the sterility of the doctrines of Protestantism. He goes into detail on the negative effects their...

Father Vincent Miceli S.J., author of “The Roots of Violence,” examines the rise of Modernism, that child of the French Revolution, and its materialistic, modernist credo.

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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...

Father George Rutler speaks on the Fatherhood of God. We live in a time when the Fatherhood of God is controversial. But it is a God given dogma that we...

Mr. Michael Davies begins with a treatment of the solid but parochially-minded Church in England before the Reformation. He then shows how Henry VIII, on personal and political grounds, aided...

Dr. John Rao discusses the topic of Humanism? “What, actually, is Humanism? Is Catholicism, as such, its enemy?

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Edith Stein was converted to Christianity through both her phenomenological studies and her inspiration by St. Teresa of Avila. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses her intellectual formation, her life as...

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...

Dr. John Rao first takes a detailed look at the Germanic West at the time of the Papal alliance with the Carolingian Family of the Kingdom of the Franks. He...

Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. begins his series on the Articles of the Apostles’ Creed. He speaks of God the Father, His Power, His place in the Trinity and in Creation.

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Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks about the role of Hope in the Salvation of man; its role in our lives as well as the difference between natural and supernatural Hope.

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Dr. John Rao discusses the Church and the Theodosian Emperors. What was the situation of the Church under the Theodosian Emperors who supported Orthodoxy versus the Arian Heresy? Dr. John...

John Rao discusses how Church Theory is often defeated by Church practice. Papal teaching in the interwar period theoretically confirmed the message of the nineteenth century revival movement regarding how...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world from the beginnings of Arianism through Nicea. The Arian Crisis involved every single aspect of Christian life and growth: theology,...

Monsignor William Smith presents an analysis of the pluralism of dissent of Catholic University’s Father Charles Curran – a pluralism which is at variance with the Magisterium on matters of...

Father George Rutler explains how compassion, which means “suffering with,” lies at the root of the Christian vision of life and God’s Revelation of Himself in Christ.

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Father Baker talks on the Sacrament of Penance, its importance in the Christian life, and Contrition for Sins.

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The Council of Chalcedon of 451 and Pope Leo the Great’s “Tome” defining Christ as one Divine Person with two natures, human and divine, unleashed the long-lasting, heretical Monophysite Movement....