Fr. Kenneth Baker offers a powerful reading of Paul’s letter to the Ephesians. Fr. Baker explains Paul’s point that Jesus Christ, Who is God, possesses the fullness of all reality....
Fr. John O’Connor, O.P. discusses signs foretelling the end of the world. In this lecture, Father draws on Scripture and the writings of the Church Fathers to present the listener...
In an examination of the contradictory pluralism of Father Charles Curran, Monsignor William Smith provides genuine applications of “Double Effect” to refute the situationism of Father Richard McCormick.
...Dr. David Allen White introduces Medieval drama, explaining its various forms, its historical development from tropes inserted within the Mass to full-scale stage plays, and its purpose as an entertaining...
Dr. John Rao examines the writings of Pope Pius XII to determine the validity of the Liberals’ claim to this beloved Pontiff.
...Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand describes how philosophical discussions of religion are ethical in character. Philosophical discussions of morality are “ethical” in character. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand treats here of the...
Mr. Michael Davies discusses the history of the Parent Rites, specifically the Roman Rite of the Mass. Sources for the history of the Roman Rite of Mass are both complex...
Dr. John Rao continues the previous discussion by illustrating that separation of the modern from modernity involved work on many levels. It included theology, philosophy, biblical exegesis, historical studies, the...
Dr. David Allen White illuminates the fact that serious artists have always understood the role of both tragedy and comedy as the two essential sides of the dramatic coin. The...
What Black Legends did the Jansenists and the Enlightenment promote? Dr. John Rao outlines them as being on the one hand, the idea that the Church was a hypocritical supporter...
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks of the Third Commandment and the importance of keeping Holy the Lord’s Day.
...Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. talks on the Sixth Article, and of Jesus’ time teaching and speaking with His Apostles after His Resurrection and of His Ascension into Heaven from the...
Dr. John Rao discusses the difficulties faced by the Empire from the time of the entry of the Goths in 376 A.D. onwards. Here one learns of the Gothic move...
Dr. John Rao discusses Rome, the East and the Monothelite controversy. Highly gifted intellectual and spiritual exiles from the East, like St. Maximus the Confessor, stirred up the Papacy to...
Pius IX himself saw the need for a deeper clarification of the Catholic position by 1848. The rest of his reign was spend dedicated to this work. Dr. John Rao,...
Dr. John C. Rao (professor of history at St. John’s University and Director of the Roman Forum), explains the topic for the 2017 Gardone, Italy Summer Symposium, “Setting Right a...
Philip the Fair of France and his pagan-minded legal advisors were the chief examples of the problem that could develop by the late 1200s. They began to use the prestige...
Dr. John Rao presents Louis Veuillot – Herald of the Catholic Counter-Revolution. Dr. Rao acquaints the listener with Louis Veuillot, the innovative 19th century French Catholic layman, satirist, and editor...
Dr. John Rao discusses the so-called New Theology developed the modernist, vitalist, and personalist ideas that came from earlier in the century. Its concern to “dive into” and help fulfill...
Dr. Ronald McArthur, a founder and President Emeritus of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, gives an urgently needed prescription for the Restoration of true Catholic Learning. He discusses...