Notable Speakers

Fr. Baker pinpoints Saint Paul’s desire for unity in the Church. The theme of this letter is the need for unity in the Church, which is the Body of Christ,...

Dr. John Rao describes the intellect of Pope Pius IX. In this lecture, Dr. Rao presents a most enlightening and scholarly portrait of Pius IX, the total demeanor of the...

Monsignor William Smith, in discussing the foundations of Catholic Moral Theology, draws on the teaching of Saint Thomas Aquinas on human acts and examines the elements and implications of the...

Dr. David Allen White continues the discussion of the life and work of William Shakespeare. Working with reference to various plays and poems, Dr. David Allen White evokes here the...

Father George Rutler speaks on the Fatherhood of God. We live in a time when the Fatherhood of God is controversial. But it is a God given dogma that we...

Mr. Michael Davies begins with a treatment of the solid but parochially-minded Church in England before the Reformation. He then shows how Henry VIII, on personal and political grounds, aided...

Dr. John Rao discusses the topic of Humanism? “What, actually, is Humanism? Is Catholicism, as such, its enemy?

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Edith Stein was converted to Christianity through both her phenomenological studies and her inspiration by St. Teresa of Avila. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses her intellectual formation, her life as...

Mr. Michael Davies gives a biography of the illustrious English convert John Henry Newman. Newman started the Tractarian Movement, later referred to as the Oxford Movement, which began a tide...

Dr. John Rao first takes a detailed look at the Germanic West at the time of the Papal alliance with the Carolingian Family of the Kingdom of the Franks. He...

Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. begins his series on the Articles of the Apostles’ Creed. He speaks of God the Father, His Power, His place in the Trinity and in Creation.

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Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks about the role of Hope in the Salvation of man; its role in our lives as well as the difference between natural and supernatural Hope.

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Dr. John Rao discusses the Church and the Theodosian Emperors. What was the situation of the Church under the Theodosian Emperors who supported Orthodoxy versus the Arian Heresy? Dr. John...

John Rao discusses how Church Theory is often defeated by Church practice. Papal teaching in the interwar period theoretically confirmed the message of the nineteenth century revival movement regarding how...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world from the beginnings of Arianism through Nicea. The Arian Crisis involved every single aspect of Christian life and growth: theology,...

Monsignor William Smith presents an analysis of the pluralism of dissent of Catholic University’s Father Charles Curran – a pluralism which is at variance with the Magisterium on matters of...

Father George Rutler explains how compassion, which means “suffering with,” lies at the root of the Christian vision of life and God’s Revelation of Himself in Christ.

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Father Baker talks on the Sacrament of Penance, its importance in the Christian life, and Contrition for Sins.

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The Council of Chalcedon of 451 and Pope Leo the Great’s “Tome” defining Christ as one Divine Person with two natures, human and divine, unleashed the long-lasting, heretical Monophysite Movement....

Dr. John Rao discusses the recognition of the need to rebuild political, religious, and social order out of the feudal chaos of the late 800’s and 900’s. This rebuilding would...