Notable Speakers

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....

Dr. John Rao discusses the recognition of the need to rebuild political, religious, and social order out of the feudal chaos of the late 800’s and 900’s. This rebuilding would...

The monks of Cluny and others like them saw two groups that had to be “transformed” before all others: the soldiers and the clergy. In order to do this work...

Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the great religious and counterrevolutionary writers of the nineteenth century. He saw Russia and Russian Orthodoxy as being central to the battle for Christianity and...

Dr. John Rao begins by showing that Pluralism is not really a new phenomenon, and that it always suffers from similar problems in whatever age it appears. The ancient “Hellenistic”...

Dr. David Allen White explores the work of Corneille, Racine and Moliere and the French Neoclassical Drama. Seventeenth Century French culture reflects two major spiritual and intellectual themes: those of...

Dr. John Rao describes the maturation of the idea of Crusading. This process of maturation is shown to have taken hundreds of years, from the 600’s through the 1000’s. Maturation...

Mr. Michael Davies says that most people think that Martin Luther has a great reputation as a rhetorician. His writings in German were an enormously powerful aid to the Reformation....

Dr. John Rao explains that Luther and Zwingli’s emphasis upon Faith and Scripture alone immediately gave birth to differences of viewpoint and encouraged the growth of still more radical Protestant...