Notable Speakers

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,...

Christianization and Romanization required a deeper learning in the High Middle Ages. Dr. John Rao shows that this involved studies in theology, philosophy, and law in the period from 1000-1300...

Dr. John Rao tackles Leo XIII’s efforts to do two things simultaneously. One was to provide a more detailed, positive Catholic Social Theory opposed to the Enlightenment. A second was...

There were horrific abuses in the Church in the 1400’s on every level, which Councils at Constance and Basel could do practically nothing to address. Nevertheless, Dr. John Rao explains...

Dr. David Allen White discusses the life and works of John Milton and the problem of the two traditions. Is Milton a Protestant writer? Can his form of Christianity ultimately...

Dr. John Rao begins by arguing that aspects of the crusading spirit are natural to man, and that it was also alive in the ancient world already. Cyrus the Great,...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand describes Simone de Beauvoir, along with Jean Paul Sartre, as one of the most powerful voices on behalf of a problematic existentialist position on “crusade” for...

Mr. Michael Davies is most known for his work on the liturgical revolution. Here, he summarizes how the movement for liturgical reform transmuted into the monster that it became, and...

Christopher Ferrara discusses the resuscitation of authentic Catholic action among the laity and reminded listeners that “the American and French revolutionaries gave birth to the god of liberty and set...

Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., drawing on Scripture and Tradition to present the Theology and Nature of the Priesthood and the role of women in the Church. He presents lucid and...

Father John O’Connor speaks of the caution we ought to exercise with alleged Marian apparitions in this ever relevant talk. What ought our attitude to alleged apparitions of Our Blessed...

Mr. Edwin Faust explains that we now stand in relation to the Church like the abandoned children of a mother gone mad. For sometime now we have had to devise...

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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