Dr. David Allen White continues his discussion of Hopkins on the combination of tradition with innovation by reading and commenting on selections of his various poems. Taken from: The Church...
The term “The Black Legend” specifically describes a set of lies regarding Catholic Spain. Dr. John Rao speaks here of a broader “syllabus” of Black Legends, developed through the ages,...
Mr. Michael Davies discusses the life of the ordinary man in Medieval England, and his relationship with his neighbors, his lord, the King, and the Church. He explores the whole...
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J.speaks of the Third Article, where Father Baker tells us of the Earthly and Human origins and Nature of Christ, as well as the Mystery of the...
Dr. John Rao launches into the restoration of the Sacred Imperial Empire, one of the great sagas of the 10th Century. Ultimately, an enduring Church and State union was not...
Dr. John Rao discusses Christology and the Council of Ephesus. The first great threat to the new orthodox order of things came through the divergences over Christology emerging out of...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world providing a grand tour of the early Christian world. Christianity spread very quickly throughout the Mediterranean World. Here, Dr. John...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand presents the life of her husband, Dietrich Von Hildebrand revealing the trials and tribulations of the greatest philosopher of this century.
...Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., discusses the teaching of the Church regarding the Sacrament of Penance. A most urgent and informative address by Father Miceli, wherein he clarifies and unfolds the...
Father George Rutler tells of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Gospel accounts. The Sacred Heart of Jesus was pierced to reveal the inexhaustible fountain of mercy and goodness...
Mr. Michael Davies critiques the Pauline reform of the Mass. He argues convincingly that loyal Catholics have a right to criticize disciplinary decisions of the Holy See. He supports his...
The Franks in Gaul under the Merovingian Dynasty led by Clovis and his descendents were the first German tribe to become Catholic. Dr. John Rao explains that their history from...
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...
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...
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