Notable Speakers

Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., discusses four famous Advent sermons in which Cardinal Newman expresses his thoughts on the Antichrist.

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Monsignor William Smith reflects on the distinctions in the Church’s definitions of personal and social sin, and the error in current concepts of the “degree of sin,” including the theory...

Fr. Buckley explains how Original Sin has wounded us. Fr. James Buckley further explains that because this wound man’s powers to act virtuously have been wounded. His reason is infected...

Mr. Davies discusses the political and religious ramifications of Vatican II. In this lecture, Mr. Michael Davies analyzes the Church’s teaching on religious liberty and the Second Vatican Council. A...

Mr. Michael Davies gives the history of the Anglican Ordinal. He discusses in detail the Anglican Ordinal from the time of Thomas Cranmer to Leo XIII. Even though prominent Catholic...

Fr. Baker reveals the three most important parts of this letter. They are that to be a Christian one must have faith in Jesus Christ, be baptized, and practice works...

Mr. Michael Davies discusses the Catholic Doctrine on the Holy Eucharist. Mr. Davies opens his treatment of heresy in the late Middle Ages by discussing the Catholic doctrine of the...

Monsignor William Smith elucidates the internal norm of morality, or conscience. He outlines its nature and function while making distinctions between the correct, certain, erroneous, and doubtful conscience. “The Fundamentals...

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.

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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...

Dr. John Rao’s next three talks all take up the problem of the Church’s struggle with a postwar world dominated by Marxism on the one hand and Americanist Pluralism on...

Dr. John Rao begins with a discussion of the ancient rhetorical dislike of Plato and his insistence that a knowledge of truth had to precede action. The entry of the...

If the Papacy thought that it would escape the kinds of Church-State problems that it had experienced in its relationship with the Emperors in Constantinople under the new alliance with...

Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. talks of the Tenth Article of the Apostles’ Creed, teaching us about the forgiveness of Sin and God’s Infinite Love and Mercy.

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Dr. John Rao, in response to questions from the audience, clarifies and expands on the three-part lecture series. Questions cover the extent of the corruption, the disputes and clashes among...

Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. In three talks, Dr. John Rao discusses the crucial role played in the growth of Christianity in Merovingian and Carolingian...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including the Greco-Roman ecumene. Dr. Rao discusses the character of the Roman Empire under the so-called Principate, the form of...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world and the problems of the New Christian Order. There were many other problems that the emerging Christian order had to...