Christopher Ferrara explains how modern man has been “deconstructed” by the Enlightenment thinkers whose principles dominate our political and social life. John Locke, among many others, is shown to destroy...
Father Baker talks of the Sacrament of Confirmation and the Spiritual Maturity which it confers.
...Dr. John Rao explores the different problems that varied groups of invaders posed for the eastern and the western sections of the old united Empire. While the East remained more...
Dr. John Rao outlines the Gregorian Reform and the many obstacles in its path. Continued Germanic and other barbarian customs still stood in the way of Christianization and Romanization. The...
Political squabbles pitting popes against emperors, kings, princes and their supporters in the episcopacy troubled the Gregorian reform program. So did the economic ambitions of the growing cities and bourgeoisie...
In this lecture, Dr. John Rao examines the genesis, specifics, and significance of the Syllabus. Its defenders and opponents in the Catholic world, such as La Civilta Cattolica, are treated...
The Council of Constance finally allowed for the return of a unified Papacy located in Rome. But, as Dr. John Rao explains, the restored Papacy was threatened by Conciliarism, political...
Dr. John Rao explains how Regalism claimed control over many aspects of religious life in the 16th and 17th centuries. The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries witnessed a further growth in...
Dr. John Rao says that Christianity made the crusading spirit into a battle for the construction of a soul that was fit to live eternally with God, and the creation...
Mr. Michael Davies says John Fisher, perhaps the most neglected Saint of the Reformation era, should be juxtaposed to Martin Luther. Fisher wrote the most erudite refutation of Luther’s heresies....
Dr. John Rao discusses the two first great Protestant reformers. One sees in Luther’s activity the way in which Nominalist denigration of man’s ability to know objective Truth and Humanist...
Father George Rutler reflects on the painful human predicament: the inevitability of death combined with an intellect capable of thinking about that inevitability. Father argues that one of the terrible...
Monsignor William Smith discusses the Bishops statement on Nuclear Weapons and the function of the National Council of Catholic Bishops in light of the statement by the American Bishops and...
Father Vincent Miceli, S.J. says the in light of the attack on the perennial Papal Magisterium today, Catholics must remain more loyal than ever to Church teaching.
...Dr. David Allen White uses Dante Alighieri’s works to explain the problems in the postconciliar Church. In the 1921 encyclical In Praeclara Summorum Pope Benedict XV wrote “Among the many...
Fr. O’Connor talks on the many methods the Devil uses to infiltrate our world. Fr. John O’Connor delivers a most compelling presentation of the war of evil that besets the...
Dr. John Rao looks back at the practices and beliefs to come out of the Enlightenment. Taking his cue from the brilliant work of the late philosopher Dietrich von Hildebrand,...
Mr. Michael Davies analyzes the rich history behind the traditional Latin Mass. In this outstanding lecture, Davies talks about the history and culture in order to help us better understand...
Christopher A. Ferrara interviews Michael Davies about the explosion of the Traditional Mass movement in the US. He also discusses the uselessness of the “reform of the reform” movement.
...Monsignor William Smith applies the principles of Moral Theology to the Right to Life and to the connection between self-defense, capital punishment, and the just war. “The Fundamentals of Moral...
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