Notable Speakers

Monsignor William Smith details the implications of current definitions of death, attitudes towards suffering and the verbal engineering that usually precedes social engineering in his talk, “The Manipulation of Human...

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. 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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,...

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....

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...

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 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...

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,...

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 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...

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...

Dr. John Rao discusses the Irish monks, the Merovingians and the Carolingians. Irish monasticism emphasized the need of going into exile for Christ’s sake. They became great evangelists. One of...

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...