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...
Differing visions of how to reorder the “pilgrimage to God” competed in the 900’s and 1000’s. Dr. John Rao discusses three of these: one that saw the problem as that...
One set of battles that was involved among the “revivalists” entailed quarrels with the governments of Europe: Orthodox, Protestant, Catholic, and Liberal. This, Dr. John Rao demonstrates, could lead to...
War in France made a return of the Papacy to Italy appealing. Italy, however, was in a disastrous and divided state. A return to Rome led to the Great Western...
Dr. David Allen White presents a sympathetic critique of the role of the theater in the life of the Christian. While clearly favorable to the union of stage and Church,...
Dr. John Rao describes the assault on the Church Universal over politics, society, education, and in internal affairs in the 17th and 18th centuries. Dr. Rao now explains that the...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand talks about, Thomas Merton who is, perhaps, the monk and spiritual writer most known to modern Americans. How did he become influenced by Catholicism? What was...
Dr. John Rao argues that a deep study of the late 1400’s and early 1500’s reveals many vibrant elements in Catholic theological, philosophical, mystical, and broad cultural life. Major reform...
Dr. John Rao follows up the theme discussed in the previous talks. Venice and Holland are shown to be places where politically-motivated discussions of how to tame religion and subject...
Mr. Michael Davies’ book, “Pope John’s Council,” sets Vatican II within its proper historic framework and gives the listener a clearer understanding of the activities that took place behind the...
Father John O’Connor, O.P., unifies the many prophecies and warnings of Our Lady in this excellent talk, “A Woman Clothed With The Son”
...Dr. McArthur argues that the Catholic Church has always been an advocate of human reason. Unlike the Enlightenment thinkers, however, She has always taught that reason is properly subordinated to...
Mr. Michael Davies asks what was life like in the Middle Ages? He tells us how ordinary folks got along in the Middle Ages; how they related to the Church...
Mr. Michael Davies outlines the indefectible nature of the Church. He defines the indefectibility of the Church, and explains how it is often misconstrued.
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