Laura Berquist, the founder of Mother of Divine Grace School, gives a comprehensive explanation of why Classical education and Catholic education are essentially the same thing, whether it be homeschooling...
Dr. John Rao discusses Gaul and the background of the Papal-Frankish alliance. Both papal pragmatism as well as frustration with a political/religious order under the authority of the emperors in...
Dr. John C. Rao is professor of history at St. John’s University and Director of the Roman Forum. This second talk shows how Catholics were influenced by the Moderate Enlightenment’s...
Archbishop John O’Connor emphasizes the value of every human life, especially the unborn, by telling of his trip to the Antarctic. The sacrality and wonder of God’s Creation witness to...
Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., author of The Gods of Atheism gives examples of the newest cults to emerge in the United States.
...Father Baker speaks of the Sacrament of Baptism, its extreme importance in Christian Life and its foundations.
...Dr. John Rao introduces this Symposium on life in the Empire and its relation to the barbarian world in the years between the defeat at Adrianople in the 370’s and...
Popes, bishops, monks, and secular clergy all fell prey to simony and barbarism by the late 800’s, to a large degree due to the failure of the attempt to restore...
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...
Monsignor William Smith tells of the danger of relativism in moral theology. Fr. Andrew Greeley’s use of surveys to decide Church teaching is forcefully refuted.
...Father Vincent Miceli, S.J. and Dr. William Marra discuss the anatomy of atheism and man’s loss of his care about his relationship with God. Faith and moral goodness keep us...
Mr. Davies describes the creation of the Crusading Orders. He explains how they are one of the most extraordinary developments of the Crusading Movement. The Crusading Order’s are the Knights...
Fr. Vincent Miceli analyzes the differences between two communities. In this lecture, Fr. Miceli uses the image of a religious order to draw a parallel between two types of communities,...
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