Dr. John Rao discusses Gaul and the background of the Papal-Frankish Alliance. Dr. John Rao continues his discussion of Christianity in Merovingian Gaul. The Kingdom of the Franks under the...
Dr. John Rao discusses the idea that modernity can seriously be critiqued in and of itself as opposed to being chastised merely for failure to live up to its supposedly...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world from Arianism to Post-Nicaean Arianism. This lecture on the Arianist Crisis by Dr. John Rao treats of the indirect way...
Monsignor William Smith inspires us to love and respect the rock of the papacy. Respect for the Blessed Sacrament, veneration of the Blessed Mother, and the firm leadership of our...
Father George Rutler defines the term “People of God” in Catholic teaching. With penetrating insight, Father George Rutler looks at the confusion and false ideas surrounding the idea “people of...
Father Baker tells us of the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, administered near the end of our lives.
...Dr. John Rao explores a variety of issues that put the Papacy in Italy on a collision course with the Empire ruled from Constantinople. Caesaro-Papism on the one hand and...
A population that needed to go on pilgrimage to God had to have a dedicated and purified clergy guiding it. Dr. John Rao speaks of how this involved a fight...
Differing visions of how to reorder the “pilgrimage to God” competed in the 900’s and 1000’s. Dr. John Rao discusses three of these: one that saw the problem as that...
One set of battles that was involved among the “revivalists” entailed quarrels with the governments of Europe: Orthodox, Protestant, Catholic, and Liberal. This, Dr. John Rao demonstrates, could lead to...
War in France made a return of the Papacy to Italy appealing. Italy, however, was in a disastrous and divided state. A return to Rome led to the Great Western...
Dr. David Allen White presents a sympathetic critique of the role of the theater in the life of the Christian. While clearly favorable to the union of stage and Church,...
Dr. John Rao describes the assault on the Church Universal over politics, society, education, and in internal affairs in the 17th and 18th centuries. Dr. Rao now explains that the...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand talks about, Thomas Merton who is, perhaps, the monk and spiritual writer most known to modern Americans. How did he become influenced by Catholicism? What was...
Dr. John Rao argues that a deep study of the late 1400’s and early 1500’s reveals many vibrant elements in Catholic theological, philosophical, mystical, and broad cultural life. Major reform...
Dr. John Rao follows up the theme discussed in the previous talks. Venice and Holland are shown to be places where politically-motivated discussions of how to tame religion and subject...
Mr. Michael Davies’ book, “Pope John’s Council,” sets Vatican II within its proper historic framework and gives the listener a clearer understanding of the activities that took place behind the...
Father John O’Connor, O.P., unifies the many prophecies and warnings of Our Lady in this excellent talk, “A Woman Clothed With The Son”
...Christopher Ferrara, esq, explains that conservatives must find the courage to confront questions of justice rather than run away from them. America’s judicial conservatives continue to appeal to the will...
Dr. McArthur argues that the Catholic Church has always been an advocate of human reason. Unlike the Enlightenment thinkers, however, She has always taught that reason is properly subordinated to...
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