Notable Speakers

Monsignor William Smith inspires us to love and respect the rock of the papacy. Respect for the Blessed Sacrament, veneration of the Blessed Mother, and the firm leadership of our...

Father George Rutler defines the term “People of God” in Catholic teaching. With penetrating insight, Father George Rutler looks at the confusion and false ideas surrounding the idea “people of...

Father Baker tells us of the Sacrament of Extreme Unction, administered near the end of our lives.

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Dr. John Rao explores a variety of issues that put the Papacy in Italy on a collision course with the Empire ruled from Constantinople. Caesaro-Papism on the one hand and...

A population that needed to go on pilgrimage to God had to have a dedicated and purified clergy guiding it. Dr. John Rao speaks of how this involved a fight...

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....

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...

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...

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...

Fr. Kenneth Baker continues his analysis of Saint Paul’s letters. The theme of this letter is that the Colossians must remain faithful to the traditional faith that has been given...

Mr. Michael Davies articulates how the noble rhetoric of “Liberte, Egalite, Fraternite” quickly degenerated into a scenario of terror and death in post revolution France. Violence is the weapon used...

Father Kenneth Baker, S.J., describes how the peace and joy that comes from being a part of the Church can overcome the distressing crisis we are living through. The greatest...