What was the Roman School’s “program” in the years 1918-1939? Dr. John Rao illustrates how much this was connected with, on the one hand, Pius XI’s missionary concerns, and, on...
Ancient literature and ancient rhetorical arguments were rediscovered and used by many Humanists from the 1300’s onwards. Dr. John Rao explains that they often now attacked the Christian concern for...
What exactly was Church life like under the Carolingians? What was the position of the Papacy, Metropolitans, Bishops, monks, and parish priests? How deeply was the Faith understood? What were...
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks of the Seventh Article and the Second Coming of Christ, in Glory, on the Last Day and of the significance of this to Christians.
...Christopher A. Ferrara concluded the day’s talks with an incisive analysis of the results of the abandonment of the use of reason by leaders in the Church. In his “Diagnosis...
Dr. John Rao discusses Gaul and the background of the Papal-Frankish Alliance. Dr. John Rao continues his discussion of Christianity in Merovingian Gaul. The Kingdom of the Franks under the...
Dr. John Rao discusses the idea that modernity can seriously be critiqued in and of itself as opposed to being chastised merely for failure to live up to its supposedly...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world from Arianism to Post-Nicaean Arianism. This lecture on the Arianist Crisis by Dr. John Rao treats of the indirect way...
Monsignor William Smith inspires us to love and respect the rock of the papacy. Respect for the Blessed Sacrament, veneration of the Blessed Mother, and the firm leadership of our...
Father George Rutler defines the term “People of God” in Catholic teaching. With penetrating insight, Father George Rutler looks at the confusion and false ideas surrounding the idea “people of...
Father Baker tells us of the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, administered near the end of our lives.
...Dr. John Rao explores a variety of issues that put the Papacy in Italy on a collision course with the Empire ruled from Constantinople. Caesaro-Papism on the one hand and...
A population that needed to go on pilgrimage to God had to have a dedicated and purified clergy guiding it. Dr. John Rao speaks of how this involved a fight...
Dealing with Eastern Orthodoxy differed for Rome depending upon the region involved. Dr. John Rao discusses these varying relationships in exploring everything from Papal-Tsarist to Papal-Ottoman affairs. He also treats...
Before weakening, the Holy Roman Emperors tried one last attempt to dominate the Church. Dr. Rao speaks of the allies which were found in Nominalist, heretical, and rebellious Church circles,...
Dr. John Rao speaks about Tridentine “Baroque” Catholicism. The Catholic Church was given a particular flavor by the Tridentine reforms and Catholic civilization took on the characteristics that we associate...
Dr. John Rao describes the assault on the Jesuits by the regalists, Jansenists and Enlightenment supporters in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Jesuits were the most clear representative of...
Dr. John Rao says the opponents of the Revolution in the nineteenth century saw themselves as fighting a battle for the defense of the consequences of the Incarnation against the...
Michael Davies says that Progressives were eager to work together with Protestants. This meant that Protestant observers of the Council often played not only a role but even a determining...
Dr. John Rao discusses the clash of the different Catholic and Protestant communities and creeds which were formalized in the 1500’s and 1600’s. Battles of these “confessions”, both intellectual and...
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