Notable Speakers

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...

Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. speaks of Father Romano Guardini who was an orthodox defender of the dogma of the Catholic Church. He is called a prophet because of his predictions...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand sketches the underpinnings of Feminism.

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Mr. Michael Davies provides a critique of the Dominican reformer, Girolamo Savonarola. Heresy found fertile soil wherever the Church was corrupt. This was due to the fact that a corrupt...

Monsignor William Smith examines a new title given to the Blessed Virgin Mary by Pope John Paul II: Mother of Life. This title is in contraposition to the “Culture of...

Dr. John Rao’s next three talks all take up the problem of the Church’s struggle with a postwar world dominated by Marxism on the one hand and Americanist Pluralism on...

Dr. John Rao begins with a discussion of the ancient rhetorical dislike of Plato and his insistence that a knowledge of truth had to precede action. The entry of the...

If the Papacy thought that it would escape the kinds of Church-State problems that it had experienced in its relationship with the Emperors in Constantinople under the new alliance with...