Notable Speakers

Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., author of The Gods of Atheism gives examples of the newest cults to emerge in the United States.

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Father Baker speaks of the Sacrament of Baptism, its extreme importance in Christian Life and its foundations.

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Dr. John Rao introduces this Symposium on life in the Empire and its relation to the barbarian world in the years between the defeat at Adrianople in the 370’s and...

Popes, bishops, monks, and secular clergy all fell prey to simony and barbarism by the late 800’s, to a large degree due to the failure of the attempt to restore...

Pius IX now saw that liberal, democratic, and nationalist governments could be even more anti-Catholic than traditionally regalist ones. For all forms of governments engaged in anti-Catholic activities, the Pope’s...

Discussions of what to do to save the Crusades grew stronger after the total loss of the Holy Land in the late 1200’s. Dr. John Rao discusses the various crusading...

Dr. John Rao shows how all the influences that combined together to shape the Council and the postconciliar Church were used to promote Liberation and Third World Theology. Both these...

Dr. John Rao discusses Protestant Naturalism. The problem of the Missions also was central to the developments tackled by Dr. Rao in these three lectures. China loomed especially large in...

Dr. John Rao says that the danger to the Papal States became more clear by 1859. A call to create an international Papal Army went out. Men from all over...

Mr. Michael Davies shows that Progressives understood the use of the media in a way in which their opponents did not. Moreover, media men were often on exactly the same...

Dr. David Allen White lectures on the literary and religious significance of Dante Alighieri and Thomas Stearns Eliot.

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Father William Smith examines the aspects of Christian marriage, especially indissolubility, and connects this with certain things going on in our own country not in the right direction.

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Monsignor William Smith renders a most brilliant and definitive presentation on Liberation Theology–its Latin-American origins and its materialistic ideology wrapped in Christian garments for the establishment of Karl Marx’s “New...

Monsignor Smith dissects the fallacies associated with euthanasia and suicide. Monsignor William Smith explains those arguments employed by the right-to-die movement and clarifies the definitions of euthanasia and suicide.

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Mr Davies offers a riveting lecture on the bravery of English Catholics. In this fascinating historical lecture Mr. Michael Davies relays the story of the resistance to the protestant changes...

Dr Alice von Hildebrand discusses the life of Edith Stein. Edith Stein was a gifted Jewish child, who excelled in all her studies,, but as a result was not humble,...

Mr Michael Davies draws on social, cultural and political history to explain the development of the French State, prosperous yet fraught with inequities. He examines the role of the Masons...

Dr. John Rao explains the necessity of studying the past. In this insightful lecture, Dr. Rao looks to the Church’s past in order to better understand the crisis that we...

Monsignor William Smith traces the current trend toward situation ethics and explains the norm of external morality, or law, as fundamental to Moral Theology. Monsignor gives an examination of several...

Father Chad Ripperger discusses the merits of the Traditional Rite of Mass. The spirituality of the ancient rite of Mass is authored by God and directed toward God. Seminarians and...