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...
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...
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. 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...
Are we made in God’s image or are we making God into our own image? Monsignor William Smith humorously explains that the merchants of confusion, with their verbal engineering, forget...
What was necessary for Christian theology to develop? Dr. John Rao discusses the obstacles that had to be overcome in order even to begin developing a theology, as well as...
Napoleonic and Restoration Europe was still not a world that the Catholic Church could enjoy. It was too regalist and too naturalist. Dr. John Rao discusses how secularist State interference...
Christianization and Romanization required a deeper learning in the High Middle Ages. Dr. John Rao shows that this involved studies in theology, philosophy, and law in the period from 1000-1300...
Dr. John Rao tackles Leo XIII’s efforts to do two things simultaneously. One was to provide a more detailed, positive Catholic Social Theory opposed to the Enlightenment. A second was...
There were horrific abuses in the Church in the 1400’s on every level, which Councils at Constance and Basel could do practically nothing to address. Nevertheless, Dr. John Rao explains...
Dr. David Allen White discusses the life and works of John Milton and the problem of the two traditions. Is Milton a Protestant writer? Can his form of Christianity ultimately...
Dr. John Rao begins by arguing that aspects of the crusading spirit are natural to man, and that it was also alive in the ancient world already. Cyrus the Great,...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand describes Simone de Beauvoir, along with Jean Paul Sartre, as one of the most powerful voices on behalf of a problematic existentialist position on “crusade” for...
Mr. Michael Davies is most known for his work on the liturgical revolution. Here, he summarizes how the movement for liturgical reform transmuted into the monster that it became, and...
Christopher Ferrara discusses the resuscitation of authentic Catholic action among the laity and reminded listeners that “the American and French revolutionaries gave birth to the god of liberty and set...
Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., drawing on Scripture and Tradition to present the Theology and Nature of the Priesthood and the role of women in the Church. He presents lucid and...
Father John O’Connor speaks of the caution we ought to exercise with alleged Marian apparitions in this ever relevant talk. What ought our attitude to alleged apparitions of Our Blessed...
Mr. Edwin Faust explains that we now stand in relation to the Church like the abandoned children of a mother gone mad. For sometime now we have had to devise...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand delivers a perceptive and witty portrait of the Christian woman. Dr. Alivce Von Hildebrand’s lecture includes historical attitudes toward women, as well as an argument that...
Mr. Michael Davies points out the need to understand the Church’s truths. He stresses that Catholics must distinguish between the Church and churchmen. He stresses also that the Church cannot...
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