Dr. John Rao discusses the growth of Frankish power, the Carolingians and St. Boniface. The Kingdom of the Franks expanded eastward underneath the strongest of the Merovingians and the Carolingian...
Mr. Michael Davies discusses the traditionalist character of the Tridentine reform, the liturgical movement, and modern developments and distortions of the Roman rite. Taken from: The Church in the Early...
T.S. Eliot is perhaps the great poet of the traditionalist mentality in the revolutionary Twentieth Century. Here, Dr. David Allen White shows, is a man dedicated to the Truth and...
Dr. John Rao deals with the internal Catholic debate over the program of the Roman School in the years 1918-1939. This debate involved theological methodology, missionary activity, political concerns, and...
Dr. David Allen White explores the question of how this concept in general and the cinema in particular can help or hurt the search for the eternal Truth, incarnated by...
Dr. John Rao shows that the period from the 1000’s-1200’s saw a rediscovery and reapplication of the fullness of Roman Law with its emphasis on the power of the State....
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. talks on the Fifth Commandment and the serious importance of Human Life.
...Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks concerning the Revelation of Faith through the Bible and the Church’s role in the interpretation and understanding of it, as well as the role of...
Laura Berquist, the founder of Mother of Divine Grace School, gives a comprehensive explanation of why Classical education and Catholic education are essentially the same thing, whether it be homeschooling...
Dr. John Rao discusses Gaul and the background of the Papal-Frankish alliance. Both papal pragmatism as well as frustration with a political/religious order under the authority of the emperors in...
Dr. John C. Rao is professor of history at St. John’s University and Director of the Roman Forum. This second talk shows how Catholics were influenced by the Moderate Enlightenment’s...
Archbishop John O’Connor emphasizes the value of every human life, especially the unborn, by telling of his trip to the Antarctic. The sacrality and wonder of God’s Creation witness to...
Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., author of The Gods of Atheism gives examples of the newest cults to emerge in the United States.
...Father Baker speaks of the Sacrament of Baptism, its extreme importance in Christian Life and its foundations.
...Dr. John Rao introduces this Symposium on life in the Empire and its relation to the barbarian world in the years between the defeat at Adrianople in the 370’s and...
Popes, bishops, monks, and secular clergy all fell prey to simony and barbarism by the late 800’s, to a large degree due to the failure of the attempt to restore...
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....