Conferences for Study and Prayer

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the vices of Culture Lite: Spiritual Sloth, Spiritual Pride, Presumption, and Scandal.   For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi.org/donations/ For...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the virtues of Magnanimity and Religion.   Magnanimity, as its name indicates, refers to a stable disposition of the mind to strive to achieve great things, to do deeds worth of honor and merit, to pursue excellence with abnegation and perseverance. Another virtue conspicuously absent in our time is that of religion or piety. The great scholastic ph...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss: The Loss of the Sense and Value of Tradition; the Sexual Revolution; and the Cult of Dialogue, Therapy, and Tolerance.   For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://ww...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss “Postmodernism,” Religious Indifferentism, and the Loss of Meaning in Life.   The greatest tragedy of the modern world is the loss of faith, not only in God, but also in truth itself, and our ability to know it by any means, whether by reason or faith. Allan Bloom, in The Closing of the American Mind, writes: “…The most important and most astonishin...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the phenomenon of Culture Lite. The word “lite” (or “light”) in the expression culture lite is being used here in analogy with products labeled as “lite” such as Pepsi lite, etc. The word is being taken in the sense of superficiality, lightweight, levity, lack of seriousness, earnestness and purpose; lack of weight and constancy; lack of passion for...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the true end of history from the final book of Scripture, Revelation.   For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi.org/donations/ For Spiritual Exerci...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss one vision of the end of history that is completely secularized, which underlies a lot of what is happening in the world today, specifically in the political order, the social order, marriage and the family and scientism.   For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possi...

In this talk, Dr. Massimiliano Di Ventra will discuss how Faith and Science are compatible in society today.   For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi.org/donations/ For Spiritual Exercises (silen...

In this talk geared toward college students, Johnathan and Lauren Smith will discuss strategies for keeping and sharing your faith on campus.    For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi.org/donatio...

In this talk, Dr. Robert Fastiggi will discuss Our Lady of Fatima and her messages to the three shepherd children, Lucia, Francisco and Jacinta.   For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi.org/donat...

In this talk, Dr. Robert Fastiggi will discuss the persecution of Christians today and how it relates to Our Lady of Fatima.   For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi.org/donations/ For Spiritual...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the Council of Trent and Reform of the Church. A few years before Luther published his ninety-five theses, in the Fifth Lateran Council in 1512, one of the Fathers, Egidio da Viterbo, summed up the Catholic idea of reform : “Man must be changed by religion, not religion by man.” In other words, Catholic reform is instituted to help men to receive Go...

In this talk, Dr. Diane Moczar will discuss various reformations in history and their consequences in the Church and society as a whole.   For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi.org/donations/ Fo...

In this talk, Dr. Diane Moczar will discuss the rapid growth of Christianity after Christ's Ascension in the Roman Empire and the conversion of the world.   For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi...

In this talk, Mr. Richard Thompson will discuss Christ's rights in the public square.   For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi.org/donations/ For Spiritual Exercises (silent Ignatian retreats) in...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the Social Kingship of Christ according to the Encyclical Quas Primas, and the traditional teaching of the Church. Pope Pius XI established the feast of Christ the King in 1925 to foster awareness of the social kingship of Christ and to combat the growing danger of the secularization of Western society, by which “individuals and states refused to su...

In this talk, Fr. John Ezratty will discuss the anti-Christian revolution affecting our country and the world today. For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi.org/donations/ For Spiritual Exercises...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how out of the catastrophe of the Protestant rebellion, a purification and true reformation emerged in the Catholic Church. This period of Catholic reform manifested itself in an elevation of Catholic life affecting the episcopacy, the religious orders, the formation of the clergy, the missions, the laity, culture and education. The key moment in th...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how Luther’s denial of transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the Mass, was linked to his rejection of the sacrament of Holy Orders. In its place he recognized only a priesthood of the faithful, in which the priest or pastor is not marked by a supernatural priestly character, but simply fulfills a certain function in the Church: preaching and presi...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how the one thing uniting the Protestants with respect to the Eucharist was their vehement rejection of transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the Mass. This means that all the Protestants were united only in this: in thinking that the substance of the bread and the wine continue to exist on the altar after the consecration has been performed. For...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how Luther denied not one particular doctrine, but the very basis of the Church’s faith: the infallibility of the universal Church and her Magisterium.  For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider l...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the belief of Justification by faith alone.  Luther’s pessimism involved the denial of free will, which goes against all human experience, as well as all of Christian ethics. Luther supported his position by understanding original sin as the total corruption of human nature, such that we are no longer able to perform morally good acts or resist temp...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the Protestant Reformation for three purposes: 1) to better understand this fundamental historical event which affects us today in so many ways; 2) to better understand the Catholic doctrine that Luther and the other Reformers opposed; 3) we will look at the Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation from the perspective of our own spiritual l...

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the modern challenges in the Church in America. For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi.org/donations/ For Spiritual Exercises (silent Ignatian ret...

In this talk, Dr. Robert Fastiggi will discuss the immigration, persecution, growth and ferment of Catholics in the history of the United States of America. For more information about Miles Christi and what we do visit www.mileschristi.org To help support our apostolate and the possibility of offering more faith formation to the laity, please consider leaving a donation at https://www.mileschristi...