Notable Speakers

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...

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...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world particularly Christian life in the 200’s A.D. What was Christian life like by the 200’s A.D.? What did Christians think...

Dr. John Rao discusses the topic of Papal Authority: Beyond Weakness and Willfulness. Dr. John Rao delivers a vigorous discourse on Papal authority.

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Christopher A Ferrara, Esq asks: How can the situation we are living through today happen in the Church? The crisis has entered a new phase, something we have not seen...

Battles in the years from the 1850’s through the 1880’s were very bitter. Bishops and ordinary priests suffered imprisonment in many cases. Some religious orders left countries of their origin....

Mr. Christopher Ferrara, Esq., posits that the modernist perception of the right to religious liberty is an erroneous and harmful illusion. Catholic Tradition: Old Rites – New Rights: Phantom Right...

Why call a Council? What issues were meant to be tackled at this Synod? What factions contended? How did papal infallibility come to be proclaimed? What role did traditionalist and...

A discussion by Dr. John Rao of the different centers of early Christianity–Alexandria, Palestine, Antioch, Asia Minor, Rome, and Gaul–and the key Church Fathers and institutions through whose work Christian...

The movement called Humanism reintroduced a love for literature, history, the Latin, Greek, and Hebrew languages, Plato, and the Bible into Catholic Christendom. These “human” as opposed to “divine” studies...

Visigothic, Irish, Benedictine, and Anglo-Saxon influences all came together in Frankish Gaul by the early 700’s. The Carolingian Family came to power in an alliance with the Papacy, which could...

Dr. David Allen White explores Mozart’s Catholic character through one of his greatest operas, Don Giovanni. Everyone knows that Mozart was a genius who worked both for Catholics and secularists,...

Dr. John Rao says the the arrival of Islam into the Mediterranean world of the Seventh Century also aided in the shaping of Crusading concepts. Dr. John Rao shows in...

Mr. Michael Davies shows that St. John Fisher understood where Luther’s arguments regarding Faith, Scripture, and the Eucharist would lead. Fisher was perhaps the greatest Catholic theologian confronting Luther in...

Dr. John Rao shows that Catholics, as usual, were slow in awakening to the real significance of the Protestant assault. Eck and Fisher were among the few early thinkers who...

Father George Rutler says that In an age where men have created more “hells on earth” than ever, the reality of the state of an eternal Hell is less believed...

Mr. Michael Davies discusses Original Sin and the Immaculate Conception. What, exactly, do these Doctrines mean to our Catholic Faith? Everything.

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Father John O’Connor explain the merits of this venerable Sacrament and how to get more out of Confession?

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Dr. McArthur discusses faith and reason. Dr. Ronald McArthur argues that the Catholic Church has always upheld the harmony between faith and reason. The human mind knows truth from two...

Msgr. William Smith offers a precise talk on Marriage and the Family. Monsignor William Smith offers a brief analysis of Pope Saint John Paul II’s teaching on the subject of...