In the American dominated Pluralist world, Catholics were called upon to be anti-communist. This was no problem, as Dr. John Rao admits. Nevertheless, they were also urged not to be...
Dr. John Rao explains that Protestant preachers obsessed with charismatic presentations of the inner meaning of the written Word were part of the anti-theology and anti-philosophy movement that began in...
Mr. Michael Davies tells the riveting story of Thomas a Becket, the 12th Century Archbishop who was first the close friend and Chancellor of King Henry II of England, and...
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. tells us about the declarations of Faith in the Eighth Article, our belief in the Holy Ghost and His role in Salvation as well as His...
Dr. Ronald McArthur examines the challenging question of Obedience and Resistance in the current ecclesial situation in the light of the timeless wisdom of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Subtitled: Applying The...
Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. Irish monasticism came to play an essential part in the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon Britain. But so did the influence coming...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world providing a grand tour of the early Christian world. Dr. Rao’s explanation of the wide scope and distinctions of early...
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.
...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,...
Protestant competition, and revival of Catholic religious orders backed by the aid of clerical-lay circles in Europe and the Papacy increased missionary activity in the nineteenth century. Exploration in Africa...
Wilhelm Richard Wagner is another enormous influence on a century that excelled in musical accomplishments. He also illustrates the Faustian temptation, though often in the language of redemption. But what,...
The modern resurrection of the ancient world, with its bad as well as its good aspects, ultimately ended, after World War II, with the option to accept either Marxism or...
Fr. Richard Munkelt describes the Enlightenment’s reinterpretation of Natural Law. The Enlightenment insisted that it was simply concerned with what is “natural”. But how do you determine what is a...
Dr. John Rao says that in order to understand modern Holy War, it is essential to grasp the continued divisions and complexity of the modern Islamic world. One of the...
Jamie Bogle talks about an Example of Social Doctrine in Practice. Salazar, an economist at the University of Coimbra, was called in by the army that took power in Portugal...
Dr. John Rao shows that reform was not easy, even in Catholic lands. Monarchs often felt threatened in their power, Spain and Portugal preventing much papal activity in the missions...
Father John O’Connor, O.P., reminds us of Satan’s final attempt to crush the Reign of God. In this exciting lecture, Father O’Connor draws on Biblical prophecies and unmasks the Devil’s...
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