Notable Speakers

Fr. Kenneth Baker discusses Paul’s letter to Philemon. Paul pleads with Philemon, master of the runaway slave Onesimus, to receive him back and not to punish him. This is the...

Dr. John Rao regards Luther and Calvin. In this lecture Dr. John Rao discusses the sterility of the doctrines of Protestantism. He goes into detail on the negative effects their...

Father Vincent Miceli S.J., author of “The Roots of Violence,” examines the rise of Modernism, that child of the French Revolution, and its materialistic, modernist credo.

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Dr. David Allen White analyses the person and poetry of Petrarch, who arguably introduced the literary forms of the High Middle Ages in the 14th century, specifically the sonnet. Petrarch...

Dr. John Senior gives an engaging talk on the rise and nature of Christian Humanism, relating it to the ninth plague of Egypt, the plague of darkness, a darkness so...

Mr. Michael Davies shows how Pope Liberius gave in to political pressure in his talk. The great battle of Athanasius against the Arian and Arianizing Emperors brought tremendous political pressure...

Dr. David Allen White reads the moving eulogy delivered by St. John Fisher for the pious grandmother of Henry VIII. Here one gets a good sense of the learning and...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand speaks of man as incapable of truly understanding who he is without divine help. He flies into all sorts of arbitrary theories and wild interpretations which...

Dietrich von Hildebrand was an inspiration for many traditionalist Catholics. Here, Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses his formation, his conversion, his concern for phenomenology, his Christocentric vision, and his fight...

The entire legalist-Humanist-Protestant-Jansenist-Enlightenment alliance became a new Grand Coalition which seized upon the image of freedom and placed it on its banners. All those who yearned to be free had...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses Plato and the Christian vision. The Church Fathers, Dr. Von Hildebrand explains, saw in Plato clear “seeds of the Logos”. Plato’s whole description of the...

Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. talks on the Twelfth Article concerning the Everlasting Life in Heaven and the Salvation of Man.

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Mr. Christopher Ferrara speaks the first law of the Church, which is the salvation of souls. If a disciplinary decision of the Holy See is unfavorable to the salvation of...

Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. Ultimately, Anglo-Saxon Britain was Christianized by Benedictine and Irish monks who clashed but also complemented one another in important sections...

Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world including early heresies. Christ warned us that heresies would come. They were already alive in the First, Second and early...

Dr. John Rao discusses the condemnation of Galileo. Dr. John Rao, who has his doctorate in Church History, gives the factual basis for the Galileo issue.

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Father Kenneth Baker, S.J.There is a lack of strong leadership in the Church at the present time. The crisis of leadership in the Catholic Church means the Church can’t fulfill...

Mr. Michael Davies and Mr. Christopher A. Ferrara discuss the Church’s position on evolution. The Pontifical Biblical Commission, when it was still an authoritative body, prescribed a number of important...

Greco-Roman culture had a clear “curriculum” which it taught with great certainty. Dr. John Rao describes here the way in which Christianity came to understand its own need for a...

The Roman Empire in the East could not help the West by the 600’s. It was attacked first by Persians and then the new force represented by the Islamic world....