Dr. John Rao’s next three talks all take up the problem of the Church’s struggle with a postwar world dominated by Marxism on the one hand and Americanist Pluralism on...
Dr. John Rao begins with a discussion of the ancient rhetorical dislike of Plato and his insistence that a knowledge of truth had to precede action. The entry of the...
If the Papacy thought that it would escape the kinds of Church-State problems that it had experienced in its relationship with the Emperors in Constantinople under the new alliance with...
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. talks of the Tenth Article of the Apostles’ Creed, teaching us about the forgiveness of Sin and God’s Infinite Love and Mercy.
...Dr. John Rao, in response to questions from the audience, clarifies and expands on the three-part lecture series. Questions cover the extent of the corruption, the disputes and clashes among...
Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. In three talks, Dr. John Rao discusses the crucial role played in the growth of Christianity in Merovingian and Carolingian...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including the Greco-Roman ecumene. Dr. Rao discusses the character of the Roman Empire under the so-called Principate, the form of...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world and the problems of the New Christian Order. There were many other problems that the emerging Christian order had to...
Father John O’Connor reflects on the meaning and relevance of the rosary, the perfect prayer – the prayer of Popes, the harness of the Infinite Power of God, the source...
Father George Rutler discusses spiritual renewal and moving the world. Beginning with a discussion of Edith Stein, a 20th-century Jewish convert and martyr who died at Auschwitz, Father George Rutler...
Father Baker talks with us about the Sacrament of Holy Orders and the role and powers of the Priesthood.
...Visigothic Spain developed a rich Catholic culture from the 500’s through the early 700’s, which was important for the development of the whole Christian Medieval West. Dr. John Rao shows...
Dr. John Rao also emphasizes the Intellectual disputes which began to develop. Should the Church primarily revive a knowledge of Scholasticism or the Church Fathers? Speculative theology or positive theology?...
Dr. David Allen White discusses Goethe, the greatest of German literary figures and an enormous influence on the nineteenth century. Goethe’s Faust and the “Faustian” temptation that lies behind the...
An exaggerated emphasis upon “human studies” could, however, lead to another form of illegitimate adulation of the ancient world, both pagan and Christian. It could also ensure an overestimate of...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand describes the spiritual friendship of St. Jeanne Francois Chantel and St. Francis de Sales. The whole labor of the Catholic Reformation was one of encouraging man’s...
Dr. John Rao says that threats to Christian security very much increased with the Ottoman victory over Byzantium. Dr. Rao describes the Ottoman advance, which continued, seemingly unabated, into Africa...
Dr. John Rao delves deeper into the 10th Century crisis. The monastic reforms initiated by the stern Abbott Odo at the Abbey of Cluny sparked the flame that restored the...
Dr. John Rao explains that Tridentine reform involved practically every sphere of Church and social life: a reform of the Papacy, of the episcopacy and clergy as a whole; of...
Christopher A. Ferrara and Mr. Michael Davies discuss the Pontifical Biblical Commission, when it was still an authoritative body, prescribed a number of important beliefs for the Creation account of...
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