Another problem emerged from the effort to strengthen the backbone of the Church authorities. When bishops of national Churches did not respond, supporters of the Ultramontanist movement calling for the...
Engagement with the enemy involved many initiatives. These included exploration of the use of certain modern scholarly tools in biblical research and interpretations. They also involved efforts to protect the...
But what were the problems of this world? Dr. John Rao shows that they involved an effort to build multicultural unity on the basis of submission to a divinized state....
Dr. John Rao discusses the Teaching Authority Problems West and East (1648-1799) Trent called for solid teaching. There remained, however, problems for identifying whence that solid teaching would come. Dr....
Dr. John Rao speaks on the dilemmas emerging from the Great Crusades show just how much the Papacy saw fighting as only one part of the Crusading Movement. Popes like...
Dr. John Rao argues that Catholics do not benefit from the so-called separation of Church and State regularly claimed as central to American political life. Why? Because the Americanist Religion...
Dr. John Rao explains that one major problem with the Protestants is that their own divisions became more and more permanent. These divisions were increased by the arrival of Jean...
Dr. John Rao says that Pluralism proclaims a need to recognize diversity and allow everyone freedom to operate. Authority is set aside, and every group is granted license of belief....
Father John O’Connor gives a most urgent and exceptional address and exhorts the laity to spread the message of Fatima to counteract the Great Lie that envelops the world in...
Father Vincent Miceli’s sermon on the Priesthood develops a freshly inspired respect for this Divinely instituted vocation. From Adam, to Noah, to Abraham, to Melchisedech; the priesthood of the true...
Mr. Michael Davies reviews thirty years of liturgical reform. In this lecture, Mr. Micahel Davies touches on the after effects of Ecclesia Dei on its 10th anniversary. He gives an...
Fr. John O’Connor analyzes the modern world in light of the Fatima. In this lecture, Fr. John O’Connor addresses the events that have come to pass as foretold by Our...
Fr. Kenneth Baker discusses several of Paul’s letters to the Romans. In the final five chapters we find practical advice for life in Christ. Faith in Christ has moral consequences....
Fr. John O’Connor lectures on Our Lady’s visit to Akita. In 1973, in Akita, Japan, Our Blessed Mother gave a dire prediction for our Church: “Cardinal against Cardinal; Bishop against...
Dr. John Rao discusses the growth of Frankish power, the Carolingians, and St. Boniface. St. Boniface realized that working with the Franks and the Carolingians was a necessary but tricky...
Dr. David Allen White continues his discussion of Eliot, his Christian vision, his mysticism, and illustrates how to deal with the difficulties of his poetic language. Taken from: My End...
Dr. John Rao unfolds the separation of the natural and the supernatural and the ultimate consequences of the divorce of science from the Catholic world view.
...Dr. David Allen White deals with one of the greatest Spanish writers of the era, Cervantes, and the genius of his major work, Don Quixote. Once again, the Catholic spirit...
Monsignor William Smith discusses Fr. Curran’s theology of dissent. Does dissent have any legitimacy in Sacred Theology? Part 1
...The internal debate fed on the “vitalist” and “personalist” ideas described by Dr. John Rao in some detail. These claimed that in order to succeed in both the external missionary...