Dr. John Rao explains the necessity of studying the past. In this insightful lecture, Dr. Rao looks to the Church’s past in order to better understand the crisis that we...
Monsignor William Smith traces the current trend toward situation ethics and explains the norm of external morality, or law, as fundamental to Moral Theology. Monsignor gives an examination of several...
Father Chad Ripperger discusses the merits of the Traditional Rite of Mass. The spirituality of the ancient rite of Mass is authored by God and directed toward God. Seminarians and...
Christopher Ferrara, esq, explains that conservatives must find the courage to confront questions of justice rather than run away from them. America’s judicial conservatives continue to appeal to the will...
Father Vincent Miceli, S.J. discusses the message of the Immaculate at Fatima to a world in rebellion against God in this modern era in this engrossing discourse.
...Mr. Michael Davies provides a critique of the Dominican reformer, Girolamo Savonarola. Heresy found fertile soil wherever the Church was corrupt. This was due to the fact that a corrupt...
Monsignor William Smith examines a new title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary by Pope John Paul II: Mother of Life. This title is in contraposition to the “Culture of...
Dr. John Rao’s next three talks all take up the problem of the Church’s struggle with a postwar world dominated by Marxism on the one hand and Americanist Pluralism on...
Dr. John Rao begins with a discussion of the ancient rhetorical dislike of Plato and his insistence that a knowledge of truth had to precede action. The entry of the...
If the Papacy thought that it would escape the kinds of Church-State problems that it had experienced in its relationship with the Emperors in Constantinople under the new alliance with...
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. talks of the Tenth Article of the Apostles’ Creed, teaching us about the forgiveness of Sin and God’s Infinite Love and Mercy.
...Dr. John Rao, in response to questions from the audience, clarifies and expands on the three-part lecture series. Questions cover the extent of the corruption, the disputes and clashes among...
Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. In three talks, Dr. John Rao discusses the crucial role played in the growth of Christianity in Merovingian and Carolingian...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including the Greco-Roman ecumene. Dr. Rao discusses the character of the Roman Empire under the so-called Principate, the form of...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world and the problems of the New Christian Order. There were many other problems that the emerging Christian order had to...
Father John O’Connor reflects on the meaning and relevance of the rosary, the perfect prayer – the prayer of Popes, the harness of the Infinite Power of God, the source...
Father George Rutler discusses spiritual renewal and moving the world. Beginning with a discussion of Edith Stein, a 20th-century Jewish convert and martyr who died at Auschwitz, Father George Rutler...
Father Baker talks with us about the Sacrament of Holy Orders and the role and powers of the Priesthood.
...Visigothic Spain developed a rich Catholic culture from the 500’s through the early 700’s, which was important for the development of the whole Christian Medieval West. Dr. John Rao shows...
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...