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...
Dr. John Rao shows that the period from the 1000’s-1200’s saw a rediscovery and reapplication of the fullness of Roman Law with its emphasis on the power of the State....
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...
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. talks on the Fifth Commandment and the serious importance of Human Life.
...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”...
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks concerning the Revelation of Faith through the Bible and the Church’s role in the interpretation and understanding of it, as well as the role of...
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...
Laura Berquist, the founder of Mother of Divine Grace School, gives a comprehensive explanation of why Classical education and Catholic education are essentially the same thing, whether it be homeschooling...
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...
Dr. John Rao discusses Gaul and the background of the Papal-Frankish alliance. Both papal pragmatism as well as frustration with a political/religious order under the authority of the emperors in...
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 C. Rao is professor of history at St. John’s University and Director of the Roman Forum. This second talk shows how Catholics were influenced by the Moderate Enlightenment’s...
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...
Archbishop John O’Connor emphasizes the value of every human life, especially the unborn, by telling of his trip to the Antarctic. The sacrality and wonder of God’s Creation witness to...
Father George Rutler says that the tendency of the morally blind and deaf to reject absolute rights and wrongs has resulted in a society of men plotting how to get...
Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., author of The Gods of Atheism gives examples of the newest cults to emerge in the United States.
...Dr. John Rao herein regards the warfare being waged between the Modernists, who drain spirituality of meaning, and the Blessed Virgin, who gives song to our beliefs.
...Father Baker speaks of the Sacrament of Baptism, its extreme importance in Christian Life and its foundations.
...Father George Rutler discusses Chesterton. Enter the mind of literature’s great Catholic thinker! (Part 1 of 2)
...Dr. John Rao introduces this Symposium on life in the Empire and its relation to the barbarian world in the years between the defeat at Adrianople in the 370’s and...
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