Dr. William Marra discusses the present crisis in the Eucharistic Faith. Belief in the Dogma of the Real Presence has declined at a startling rate since the Second Vatican Council....
Dr. John Rao discusses the Lombards, Persians, Moslems and Rome. The situation of the Empire was worsened due to invasions by the Lombards in Italy and the Persians and Arab...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world from Alexandria to Antioch. Origen’s profound theological influence extended into Palestine, Syria and Asia Minor. Here it also encountered many...
Dr. John Rao discusses dangerous trends in the Church in America which are also showing in other ‘affluent’ Western Countries.
...Dr. Ronald McArthur comments on Pope Benedict XVI’s important Regensberg lecture. We go the the first principles, starting with the Gospel of John. Faith and reason has been severed by...
Monsignor William Smith will hold your attention with his humor and intelligence while filling you with so many facts and anecdotes for your apostolate! Sacred doctrine makes sound morality along...
Dr. John Rao shows that two distinct theological approaches clashed in the early Church. One, emerging from Alexandria and tied with the work of Origen, was highly allegorical in its...
The new western Empire, sealed by Charlemagne’s coronation in 800, had many problems, all explored by Dr. John Rao. Bad German customs still prevented a full appreciation of Christianity and...
Dr. John Rao discusses the various forces which contributed to a revival of Catholic self-confidence in the years 1800-1848. These involved a number of clerical-lay circles in Germany, France, and...
The High Middle Ages had taught that Christians were involved in an exalted but highly complex, hierarchically-organized pilgrimage to God. Obstacles to completion of that pilgrimage came from all segments...
The problem for Catholics from the very beginning of Church History is that they have to work with nature and accept the fact that all aspects of nature have something...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses Blaise Pascal’s life and work. One of the greatest critics of Descartes in seventeenth century France was Pascal. His God, the God of Abraham, Isaac,...
Dr. John Rao explains that the external Crusades had to be accompanied by an internal crusade versus heresy, confused thinking in general, and corruption in the clergy and in the...
Christopher Ferrara demonstrates that Americanism is a religion of Nation, Constitution and Democracy which has regularly taught doctrines antithetical to everything Catholicism cherishes most. So subtle and effective has it...
Dr. John Rao explains that the Council of Trent met in three different sessions, each of which had its own special character. The first of these two talks by Dr....
Mr. Christopher A. Ferrara and Mr. Michael Davies discuss Death Penalty. The Church has always taught the State has the right to exact retribution from criminals, yet in the recently...
Monsignor William Smith eloquently recalls the words of the Blessed Virgin at Fatima to prayer, conversion, and repentance, their importance in the light of modern Papal Witness and their urgency...
Christopher Ferrara discusses the true nature of Liberty, starting with Plato and Aristotle, and continuing with Christ, Who tells us that “the Truth will set you free,” allows us to...
There were eight “official” Crusades in the Middle Ages. Mr. Michael Davies goes into detail on the remaining seven: the inconclusive second; hopeful but ultimately problematic third; disastrous fourth, which...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand relays the tragic story of Thomas Merton. She tells how he was an extremely talented man, but had tragic flaws.
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