Notable Speakers

Dr. John Rao speaks of the way in which the Gregorian pilgrimage to God involved a deeper understanding of how the Incarnation required the transformation of all things in Christ....

Culture Wars against a more militant Catholic Church were fought in many places treated by Dr. John Rao: the German Empire, Austria-Hungary, Belgium, Holland, Italy, and France. Particularly explosive were...

What do Liberation and Third World Theology entail? Dr. John Rao explains that they demand the submission of the Catholic missionary and social activist to what he finds expressed in...

Dr. John Rao discusses Regalism, the Universal Church and the missions. Dr. Rao now discusses the precise ways in which Regalist demands involved many clashes of the French, Portuguese and...

Monsignor William Smith details the implications of current definitions of death, attitudes towards suffering and the verbal engineering that usually precedes social engineering in his talk, “The Manipulation of Human...

Dr. John Rao explains that the monks of Cluny aided the maturation process enormously, teaching rough soldiers how they could use their military skills for acceptable purposes. The Pilgrimage to...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand tackles a necessary but difficult subject: the personality of Luther and his troubled psychology. Anyone familiar with Luther’s language and his increasing paranoia and conviction of...

Mr. Michael Davies talks include readings of selections from the writings of St. John Fisher and Martin Luther. Listeners will be able to judge for themselves the way in which...

Mr. Michael Davies discusses the Mass in the first three centuries. There are intervening periods of “light” and “darkness” regarding our knowledge of the development of the liturgy of the...

Dr. John Rao explains that it was the Protestants who first called for a Council. He shows that papal fears of conciliarism and political battles involving Germany, France, and Spain...

Modernity, Dr. John Rao argues, had intellectually deconstructed itself as much as possible by the end of the nineteenth century. What was left to do was to deconstruct itself politically...

Father George Rutler says that Modern Man, thinking Hell is “too bad to be true,” likewise thinks that Heaven is “too good to be true” as well. Just as Hell...

Mr. Michael Davies treats here in detail of the turn of the century Modernist movement. While he admits that some of the reaction to the Modernists struck at men and...

Dr. John Rao examines how Christianity has dealt with war and warriors and, to illustrate his point, traces the Church’s conversion of the Medieval warrior to the Christian Knight. A...

From the middle of the 1700’s through the French Revolution and down to the present, this new Grand Coalition used all media to develop an endless variety of Black Legends....

Father George Rutler discusses Chesterton. Enter the mind of literature’s great Catholic thinker!

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Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. begins his talk on the Ten Commandments. He speaks of the First Commandment with regard to Atheism and the Worship of God

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Mr. Michael Davies begins by looking at the historical culture leading into the Crusades. His discussion of the Crusades opens with an in-depth treatment of the causes of the First...

Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks of the Ninth Article, which concerns the Church. Our trust in the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ and its marks of One, Holy,...

Dr. Alice von Hildebrand shows us the special role of women in suffering. In every life there is suffering; but Dr. Hildebrand argues that most people attempt to keep it...