Dr. John Rao discusses the difficulties faced by the Empire from the time of the entry of the Goths in 376 A.D. onwards. Here one learns of the Gothic move...
Dr. John Rao discusses Rome, the East and the Monothelite controversy. Highly gifted intellectual and spiritual exiles from the East, like St. Maximus the Confessor, stirred up the Papacy to...
Dr. John C. Rao (professor of history at St. John’s University and Director of the Roman Forum), explains the topic for the 2017 Gardone, Italy Summer Symposium, “Setting Right a...
Dr. John Rao presents Louis Veuillot – Herald of the Catholic Counter-Revolution. Dr. Rao acquaints the listener with Louis Veuillot, the innovative 19th century French Catholic layman, satirist, and editor...
Dr. Ronald McArthur, a founder and President Emeritus of Thomas Aquinas College in Santa Paula, California, gives an urgently needed prescription for the Restoration of true Catholic Learning. He discusses...
Are we made in God’s image or are we making God into our own image? Monsignor William Smith humorously explains that the merchants of confusion, with their verbal engineering, forget...
What was necessary for Christian theology to develop? Dr. John Rao discusses the obstacles that had to be overcome in order even to begin developing a theology, as well as...
Napoleonic and Restoration Europe was still not a world that the Catholic Church could enjoy. It was too regalist and too naturalist. Dr. John Rao discusses how secularist State interference...
Dr. John Rao also emphasizes the Intellectual disputes which began to develop. Should the Church primarily revive a knowledge of Scholasticism or the Church Fathers? Speculative theology or positive theology?...
Dr. David Allen White discusses Goethe, the greatest of German literary figures and an enormous influence on the nineteenth century. Goethe’s Faust and the “Faustian” temptation that lies behind the...
An exaggerated emphasis upon “human studies” could, however, lead to another form of illegitimate adulation of the ancient world, both pagan and Christian. It could also ensure an overestimate of...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand describes the spiritual friendship of St. Jeanne Francois Chantel and St. Francis de Sales. The whole labor of the Catholic Reformation was one of encouraging man’s...
Dr. John Rao says that threats to Christian security very much increased with the Ottoman victory over Byzantium. Dr. Rao describes the Ottoman advance, which continued, seemingly unabated, into Africa...
Dr. John Rao delves deeper into the 10th Century crisis. The monastic reforms initiated by the stern Abbott Odo at the Abbey of Cluny sparked the flame that restored the...
Dr. John Rao explains that Tridentine reform involved practically every sphere of Church and social life: a reform of the Papacy, of the episcopacy and clergy as a whole; of...
Christopher A. Ferrara and Mr. Michael Davies discuss the Pontifical Biblical Commission, when it was still an authoritative body, prescribed a number of important beliefs for the Creation account of...
Monsignor William Smith tells of the danger of relativism in moral theology. Fr. Andrew Greeley’s use of surveys to decide Church teaching is forcefully refuted.
...Father Vincent Miceli, S.J. and Dr. William Marra discuss the anatomy of atheism and man’s loss of his care about his relationship with God. Faith and moral goodness keep us...
Mr. Davies describes the creation of the Crusading Orders. He explains how they are one of the most extraordinary developments of the Crusading Movement. The Crusading Order’s are the Knights...
Fr. Vincent Miceli analyzes the differences between two communities. In this lecture, Fr. Miceli uses the image of a religious order to draw a parallel between two types of communities,...
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