Notable Speakers

Dr. John Rao indicates that the entire struggle for Catholic freedom and a Catholic declaration of independence from the regalist-naturalist stranglehold was symbolized by the work of Pius IX. Pius...

Another obstacle to the thirteenth century pilgrimage to God was, Dr. John Rao indicates, intellectual disunity, something that the university “think tanks” were supposed to overcome. Supporters and opponents of...

The whole postwar atmosphere, New Theology, the Council, and the post conciliar environment all pushed the Vatican to try to be more friendly with the Soviet Union. It is this...

Dr. John Rao discusses theological methodology, including whether it was influenced by Descartes and Newton, in the 1600s and 1700s. Another source of debate regarding teaching in the 1600’s and...

Dr. John Rao describes the influence of different modern Islamic developments for places like Asia and Africa, where Moslems are so militant today. Again, the ability of certain militant Moslem...

John Rao talks about the Tendencies Leading to the Abandonment of The Theory of Christ the King. Many Catholics in the interwar period were in practice devoted to Liberalism, Americanism,...

Dr. John Rao follows up on the topics developed in the previous lecture, placing the emphasis upon the practical work that needed to be done by the Papacy and its...

Father Vincent Miceli, S.J. says that the great apostasy has begun. Hold fast to your Faith with the insights of Father Miceli.

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Monsignor William Smith challenges the orthodoxy and alleged scholarship of the Catholic Theological Society of America’s book, “Human Sexuality,” a work which rests on Humanist premises and distorts and ridicules...

Father Vincent Miceli, S.J. and Dr. William Marra discuss modern day atheism as humanism. Humanists believe that denying God liberates man, that no deity will save man, he has to...

Mr. Davies discusses the little known sect from the 1200’s called the Catharists. Pope Innocent III was convinced that Crusades had to be called against other enemies of the Faith...

Dr. Alice von Hildebrand expounds on the extremely rich role of womanhood and true femininity. The privilege of being a woman is most completely realized in the vocation of motherhood....

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...

Monsignor William Smith details the implications of current definitions of death, attitudes towards suffering and the verbal engineering that usually precedes social engineering in his talk, “The Manipulation of Human...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand tackles a necessary but difficult subject: the personality of Luther and his troubled psychology. Anyone familiar with Luther’s language and his increasing paranoia and conviction of...

Mr. Michael Davies discusses the Mass in the first three centuries. There are intervening periods of “light” and “darkness” regarding our knowledge of the development of the liturgy of the...

Modernity, Dr. John Rao argues, had intellectually deconstructed itself as much as possible by the end of the nineteenth century. What was left to do was to deconstruct itself politically...