Notable Speakers

Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., discusses four famous Advent sermons in which Cardinal Newman expresses his thoughts on the Antichrist.

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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...

Monsignor William Smith reflects on the distinctions in the Church’s definitions of personal and social sin, and the error in current concepts of the “degree of sin,” including the theory...

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...

Fr. Buckley explains how Original Sin has wounded us. Fr. James Buckley further explains that because this wound man’s powers to act virtuously have been wounded. His reason is infected...

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. Davies discusses the political and religious ramifications of Vatican II. In this lecture, Mr. Michael Davies analyzes the Church’s teaching on religious liberty and the Second Vatican Council. A...

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...

Mr. Michael Davies gives the history of the Anglican Ordinal. He discusses in detail the Anglican Ordinal from the time of Thomas Cranmer to Leo XIII. Even though prominent Catholic...

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....

Fr. Baker reveals the three most important parts of this letter. They are that to be a Christian one must have faith in Jesus Christ, be baptized, and practice works...

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

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Mr. Michael Davies discusses the Catholic Doctrine on the Holy Eucharist. Mr. Davies opens his treatment of heresy in the late Middle Ages by discussing the Catholic doctrine of the...

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,...

Monsignor William Smith elucidates the internal norm of morality, or conscience. He outlines its nature and function while making distinctions between the correct, certain, erroneous, and doubtful conscience. “The Fundamentals...

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...

Dr. John Rao discusses the Lombards, Persians, Moslems and Rome. The situation of the Empire was worsened due to invasions by the Lombards in Italy and the Persians and Arab...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world from Alexandria to Antioch. Origen’s profound theological influence extended into Palestine, Syria and Asia Minor. Here it also encountered many...

Dr. John Rao discusses dangerous trends in the Church in America which are also showing in other ‘affluent’ Western Countries.

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Dr. Ronald McArthur comments on Pope Benedict XVI’s important Regensberg lecture. We go the the first principles, starting with the Gospel of John. Faith and reason has been severed by...