Notable Speakers

In the American dominated Pluralist world, Catholics were called upon to be anti-communist. This was no problem, as Dr. John Rao admits. Nevertheless, they were also urged not to be...

Dr. John Rao explains that Protestant preachers obsessed with charismatic presentations of the inner meaning of the written Word were part of the anti-theology and anti-philosophy movement that began in...

Mr. Michael Davies tells the riveting story of Thomas a Becket, the 12th Century Archbishop who was first the close friend and Chancellor of King Henry II of England, and...

Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. tells us about the declarations of Faith in the Eighth Article, our belief in the Holy Ghost and His role in Salvation as well as His...

Dr. Ronald McArthur examines the challenging question of Obedience and Resistance in the current ecclesial situation in the light of the timeless wisdom of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Subtitled: Applying The...

Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. Irish monasticism came to play an essential part in the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon Britain. But so did the influence coming...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world providing a grand tour of the early Christian world. Dr. Rao’s explanation of the wide scope and distinctions of early...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand presents a personal portrait of Dietrich Von Hildebrand noting that his personal heroism matches his glorious achievements in the philosophical field.

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Dr. John Rao analyzes the heresy of Americanism. Pope Leo XIII addressed the encyclical ‘Testem Benevolentiae’ to James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore in 1899. While paying lip service to the...

The supernatural has undergone a three-pronged attack; maligning of the Church, praise of natural accomplishments over supernatural, silence concerning the supernatural. The bastions of Catholicism have succumbed to these attacks,...

Dr. John Rao shows that in order for theology to grow, sources of Christian teaching had to be more clearly identified, authoritative interpreters pinpointed, and, inevitably, the value of Greek...

Irish and Benedictine monks both worked to convert Anglo-Saxon Britain. There, Dr. John Rao explains, they influenced one another and finally built the vision of a monastic life combining work,...

Another problem emerged from the effort to strengthen the backbone of the Church authorities. When bishops of national Churches did not respond, supporters of the Ultramontanist movement calling for the...

Engagement with the enemy involved many initiatives. These included exploration of the use of certain modern scholarly tools in biblical research and interpretations. They also involved efforts to protect the...

But what were the problems of this world? Dr. John Rao shows that they involved an effort to build multicultural unity on the basis of submission to a divinized state....

Dr. John Rao discusses the Teaching Authority Problems West and East (1648-1799) Trent called for solid teaching. There remained, however, problems for identifying whence that solid teaching would come. Dr....

Dr. John Rao speaks on the dilemmas emerging from the Great Crusades show just how much the Papacy saw fighting as only one part of the Crusading Movement. Popes like...

Dr. John Rao argues that Catholics do not benefit from the so-called separation of Church and State regularly claimed as central to American political life. Why? Because the Americanist Religion...

Dr. John Rao explains that one major problem with the Protestants is that their own divisions became more and more permanent. These divisions were increased by the arrival of Jean...

Dr. John Rao says that Pluralism proclaims a need to recognize diversity and allow everyone freedom to operate. Authority is set aside, and every group is granted license of belief....