Dr. David Allen White introduces Chaucer, telling his life and focusing on his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales. Dr. White explains the connection between Chaucer and the works of Dante, Boccaccio,...
Dr. John Rao looks at the Jesuits in view of the Political Right. In the talk, “The Jesuits and the Political Right,” Dr. John Rao examines the problem of how...
Dr. David Allen White expounds on Dante’s masterpiece, explaining how The Divine Comedy transforms the faulty notion of courtly love into the mystical union between the soul and God. In...
Mr. Michael Davies speaks about how England lost the Faith under Elizabeth I. The Tudor Queen Mary restored Catholicism after the Calvinizing period under Edward. She did not live long...
Dr. Alice von Hildebrand talks about the life and work of the late Dietrich von Hildebrand, a man whose heart was a great as his mind. Alice von Hildebrand received...
In the American dominated Pluralist world, Catholics were called upon to be anti-communist. This was no problem, as Dr. John Rao admits. Nevertheless, they were also urged not to be...
Dr. John Rao explains that Protestant preachers obsessed with charismatic presentations of the inner meaning of the written Word were part of the anti-theology and anti-philosophy movement that began in...
Mr. Michael Davies tells the riveting story of Thomas a Becket, the 12th Century Archbishop who was first the close friend and Chancellor of King Henry II of England, and...
Father Kenneth Baker, S.J. tells us about the declarations of Faith in the Eighth Article, our belief in the Holy Ghost and His role in Salvation as well as His...
Dr. Ronald McArthur examines the challenging question of Obedience and Resistance in the current ecclesial situation in the light of the timeless wisdom of Saint Thomas Aquinas. Subtitled: Applying The...
Dr. John Rao discusses the contribution of Britain and Ireland. Irish monasticism came to play an essential part in the Christianization of Anglo-Saxon Britain. But so did the influence coming...
Dr. John Rao discusses early Christianity and the Greco-Roman world providing a grand tour of the early Christian world. Dr. Rao’s explanation of the wide scope and distinctions of early...
Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand presents a personal portrait of Dietrich Von Hildebrand noting that his personal heroism matches his glorious achievements in the philosophical field.
...Such early nineteenth century circles, which concerned themselves with theological, philosophical, spiritual/mystical, historical, catechetical, liturgical, literary, missionary, and political and social issues are discussed here by Dr. John Rao in...
Dr. John Rao analyzes the heresy of Americanism. Pope Leo XIII addressed the encyclical ‘Testem Benevolentiae’ to James Cardinal Gibbons of Baltimore in 1899. While paying lip service to the...
Holy Roman Emperors like Frederick II, the Kings of France and England, and even some noblemen saw themselves as having religious responsibilities in the political realm. When this was combined...
The supernatural has undergone a three-pronged attack; maligning of the Church, praise of natural accomplishments over supernatural, silence concerning the supernatural. The bastions of Catholicism have succumbed to these attacks,...
Dr. John Rao explains that Nominalist, millenarian, and apocalyptic heresies continued to abound in the 1400’s. These were aided by the corruption of the Church and her hierarchy. Bishops and...
Dr. John Rao shows that in order for theology to grow, sources of Christian teaching had to be more clearly identified, authoritative interpreters pinpointed, and, inevitably, the value of Greek...
Dr. John Rao discusses grace, free will, the Missions, Jansenism and Protestant Naturalism. Dr. Rao shows how Jansenism and the concerns of “pietist” Protestants who de-emphasized the importance of doctrine...