Notable Speakers

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....

The monks of Cluny and others like them saw two groups that had to be “transformed” before all others: the soldiers and the clergy. In order to do this work...

Fyodor Dostoevsky is one of the great religious and counterrevolutionary writers of the nineteenth century. He saw Russia and Russian Orthodoxy as being central to the battle for Christianity and...

Dr. John Rao begins by showing that Pluralism is not really a new phenomenon, and that it always suffers from similar problems in whatever age it appears. The ancient “Hellenistic”...

Dr. David Allen White explores the work of Corneille, Racine and Moliere and the French Neoclassical Drama. Seventeenth Century French culture reflects two major spiritual and intellectual themes: those of...

Dr. John Rao describes the maturation of the idea of Crusading. This process of maturation is shown to have taken hundreds of years, from the 600’s through the 1000’s. Maturation...

Mr. Michael Davies says that most people think that Martin Luther has a great reputation as a rhetorician. His writings in German were an enormously powerful aid to the Reformation....

Dr. John Rao explains that Luther and Zwingli’s emphasis upon Faith and Scripture alone immediately gave birth to differences of viewpoint and encouraged the growth of still more radical Protestant...

Father George Rutler says that the tendency of the morally blind and deaf to reject absolute rights and wrongs has resulted in a society of men plotting how to get...

Dr. John Rao herein regards the warfare being waged between the Modernists, who drain spirituality of meaning, and the Blessed Virgin, who gives song to our beliefs.

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Father George Rutler discusses Chesterton. Enter the mind of literature’s great Catholic thinker! (Part 1 of 2)

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Fr. George Rutler analyzes the contemporary crisis of civilization. Since the Protestant Revolution, culture has gradually taken a homo-centric turn. In the 20th century, men became cynical toward faith and...

Fr. O’Connor addresses the Church in the modern world. This a most important address wherein Fr. John O’Connor unfolds the trials of the Church in today’s world – this era...

Fr. Kenneth Baker explains how Paul’s letter to Timothy is still important. This letter is similar in content to the other two Pastoral Letters: it is a powerful exhortation to...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand digs into the writings of one of modern England’s greatest Catholics. Dr. Von Hildebrand says that, although he died in 1936, Chesterton perceived the threat of...

Christopher Ferrara,Esq., critiques the notion that Catholic states should remain a thing of the past. He quotes Pope Leo XIII about Church-State relations and speaks on the undeniable benefits the...

Monsignor William Smith, lecturing on human sexuality in the context of virtue, renders an understanding of the dimension of love and life in human sexuality within the covenant of marriage....