Notable Speakers

Dr. John Rao says that Christianity made the crusading spirit into a battle for the construction of a soul that was fit to live eternally with God, and the creation...

Mr. Michael Davies says John Fisher, perhaps the most neglected Saint of the Reformation era, should be juxtaposed to Martin Luther. Fisher wrote the most erudite refutation of Luther’s heresies....

Dr. John Rao discusses the two first great Protestant reformers. One sees in Luther’s activity the way in which Nominalist denigration of man’s ability to know objective Truth and Humanist...

Father George Rutler reflects on the painful human predicament: the inevitability of death combined with an intellect capable of thinking about that inevitability. Father argues that one of the terrible...

Monsignor William Smith discusses the Bishops statement on Nuclear Weapons and the function of the National Council of Catholic Bishops in light of the statement by the American Bishops and...

Father Vincent Miceli, S.J. says the in light of the attack on the perennial Papal Magisterium today, Catholics must remain more loyal than ever to Church teaching.

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Dr. David Allen White uses Dante Alighieri’s works to explain the problems in the postconciliar Church. In the 1921 encyclical In Praeclara Summorum Pope Benedict XV wrote “Among the many...

Fr. O’Connor talks on the many methods the Devil uses to infiltrate our world. Fr. John O’Connor delivers a most compelling presentation of the war of evil that besets the...

Dr. John Rao looks back at the practices and beliefs to come out of the Enlightenment. Taking his cue from the brilliant work of the late philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand,...

Mr. Michael Davies analyzes the rich history behind the traditional Latin Mass. In this outstanding lecture, Davies talks about the history and culture in order to help us better understand...

Christopher A. Ferrara interviews Michael Davies about the explosion of the Traditional Mass movement in the US. He also discusses the uselessness of the “reform of the reform” movement.

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Monsignor William Smith applies the principles of Moral Theology to the Right to Life and to the connection between self-defense, capital punishment, and the just war. “The Fundamentals of Moral...

Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. analyzes the 1987 Vatican instruction on test-tube babies and surrogate mothers. He analyses the document “Instruction on Respect for Human Life in its Origins and On...

Dr. David Allen White richly analyzes Dante’s Divine Comedy.In Part II, Dr. White richly analyzes the Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso in light of Catholic thought. Taken from: Christianity...

Mr. Michael Davies discusses the life and work of Fr. Adrian Fortescue. The brilliant Fr. Adrian Fortescue contributed a great deal to 20th Century Catholic understanding of the liturgy. Mr....

The nineteenth century Catholic revival was very rich and variegated. Aspects of it had combined together by the turn of the century to create a distinct “Roman School” dominating the...

Dietrich Von Hildebrand was a hero in the battle for Catholic Tradition in the wake of the catastrophe following Second Vatican Council. But he was also a political hero in...

EmbedEdit Jansenists were among those who claimed to understand nature as it really was: wicked. Dr. John Rao indicates that they were horrified by the Church’s alliance with Jesuits trying...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand presents a critique of Gabriel Marcel’s work. The Twentieth Century has given birth to a variety of philosophical attempts to escape ideology and make contact with...

Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks of the Fourth Article, where we reach the Passion of Jesus and His death upon the cross. The historical significance of Pontius Pilate and his...