Political squabbles pitting popes against emperors, kings, princes and their supporters in the episcopacy troubled the Gregorian reform program. So did the economic ambitions of the growing cities and bourgeoisie...
In this lecture, Dr. John Rao examines the genesis, specifics, and significance of the Syllabus. Its defenders and opponents in the Catholic world, such as La Civilta Cattolica, are treated...
The Council of Constance finally allowed for the return of a unified Papacy located in Rome. But, as Dr. John Rao explains, the restored Papacy was threatened by Conciliarism, political...
Dr. John Rao explains how Regalism claimed control over many aspects of religious life in the 16th and 17th centuries. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed a further growth in...
Dr. John Rao says that Christianity made the crusading spirit into a battle for the construction of a soul that was fit to live eternally with God, and the creation...
Mr. Michael Davies says John Fisher, perhaps the most neglected Saint of the Reformation era, should be juxtaposed to Martin Luther. Fisher wrote the most erudite refutation of Luther’s heresies....
Dr. John Rao discusses the two first great Protestant reformers. One sees in Luther’s activity the way in which Nominalist denigration of man’s ability to know objective Truth and Humanist...
Father George Rutler reflects on the painful human predicament: the inevitability of death combined with an intellect capable of thinking about that inevitability. Father argues that one of the terrible...
Monsignor William Smith discusses the Bishops statement on Nuclear Weapons and the function of the National Council of Catholic Bishops in light of the statement by the American Bishops and...
Father Vincent Miceli, S.J. says the in light of the attack on the perennial Papal Magisterium today, Catholics must remain more loyal than ever to Church teaching.
...Dr. David Allen White uses Dante Alighieri’s works to explain the problems in the postconciliar Church. In the 1921 encyclical In Praeclara Summorum Pope Benedict XV wrote “Among the many...
Fr. O’Connor talks on the many methods the Devil uses to infiltrate our world. Fr. John O’Connor delivers a most compelling presentation of the war of evil that besets the...
Dr. John Rao looks back at the practices and beliefs to come out of the Enlightenment. Taking his cue from the brilliant work of the late philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand,...
Mr. Michael Davies analyzes the rich history behind the traditional Latin Mass. In this outstanding lecture, Davies talks about the history and culture in order to help us better understand...
Christopher A. Ferrara interviews Michael Davies about the explosion of the Traditional Mass movement in the US. He also discusses the uselessness of the “reform of the reform” movement.
...Monsignor William Smith applies the principles of Moral Theology to the Right to Life and to the connection between self-defense, capital punishment, and the just war. “The Fundamentals of Moral...
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks of Father Romano Guardini who was an orthodox defender of the dogma of the Catholic Church. He is called a prophet because of his predictions...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand sketches the underpinnings of Feminism.
...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...
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