Christopher Ferrara demonstrates that Americanism is a religion of Nation, Constitution and Democracy which has regularly taught doctrines antithetical to everything Catholicism cherishes most. So subtle and effective has it...
Dr. John Rao explains that the Council of Trent met in three different sessions, each of which had its own special character. The first of these two talks by Dr....
Mr. Christopher A. Ferrara and Mr. Michael Davies discuss Death Penalty. The Church has always taught the State has the right to exact retribution from criminals, yet in the recently...
Monsignor William Smith eloquently recalls the words of the Blessed Virgin at Fatima to prayer, conversion, and repentance, their importance in the light of modern Papal Witness and their urgency...
Christopher Ferrara discusses the true nature of Liberty, starting with Plato and Aristotle, and continuing with Christ, Who tells us that “the Truth will set you free,” allows us to...
There were eight “official” Crusades in the Middle Ages. Mr. Michael Davies goes into detail on the remaining seven: the inconclusive second; hopeful but ultimately problematic third; disastrous fourth, which...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand relays the tragic story of Thomas Merton. She tells how he was an extremely talented man, but had tragic flaws.
...Fr. Baker discusses the lessons contained in Paul’s letters to the Romans. In these chapters Saint Paul explains the meaning of Baptism and sanctifying grace and the contrast between sin...
Mr. Michael Davies presents a tragic history: a divided liturgy in a divided Church. He describes the division which has arisen in the Church.
...Dr. John Rao discusses the iconoclast controversy. Before the popes could bring themselves to make a final break with subjection to the emperor in Constantinople one final blow was needed....
Sophocles’ Philoctetes deals with many questions that unite the ancient and the modern world, all of which are explored by Dr. David Allen White. What role do the gods have...
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. Alice Von Hildebrand tackles a necessary but difficult subject: the personality of Luther and his troubled psychology. Anyone familiar with Luther’s language and his increasing paranoia and conviction of...
Mr. Michael Davies discusses the Mass in the first three centuries. There are intervening periods of “light” and “darkness” regarding our knowledge of the development of the liturgy of the...
Modernity, Dr. John Rao argues, had intellectually deconstructed itself as much as possible by the end of the nineteenth century. What was left to do was to deconstruct itself politically...
Mr. Michael Davies treats here in detail of the turn of the century Modernist movement. While he admits that some of the reaction to the Modernists struck at men and...
From the middle of the 1700’s through the French Revolution and down to the present, this new Grand Coalition used all media to develop an endless variety of Black Legends....
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. begins his talk on the Ten Commandments. He speaks of the First Commandment with regard to Atheism and the Worship of God
...Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks of the Ninth Article, which concerns the Church. Our trust in the Church as the Mystical Body of Christ and its marks of One, Holy,...
Father George Rutler speaks on Mary as the bearer of the Eternal Word. The Holy Spirit who breathed upon the face of the waters and created all the world began...