Institute of Catholic Culture

“Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and of Thy wisdom there is no end.” - St. Augustine, Confessions

“Great art Thou, O Lord, and greatly to be praised; great is Thy power, and of Thy wisdom there is no end.” - St. Augustine, Confessions

In the year 312, after three centuries of Christian persecution, the newly proclaimed emperor prepared himself to conquer the ancient city of Rome. What happened next would alter the course of history forever.

In the year 312, after three centuries of Christian persecution, the newly proclaimed emperor prepared himself to conquer the ancient city of Rome. What happened next would alter the course of history forever.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

In the earliest days of Christianity, many important letters and instructions were penned by the first followers of Christ and were held in great honor by the early Church, while not included in the Canon of Sacred Scripture. The Teaching of the Twelve Apostles , often called the Didache , was the earliest catechetical instruction of its kind, written late in the first century. It instructs the ea...

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

We live in an age that rejects, or fails to see, the fundamental human calling: to live in the truth. The truth, and the truth alone, will set us free. But before we can live the truth we must come to know it. The ancient Greeks, our great forefathers, discovered, through natural reason, the truth that sets man free.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

We live in an age that rejects, or fails to see, the fundamental human calling: to live in the truth. The truth, and the truth alone, will set us free. But before we can live the truth we must come to know it. The ancient Greeks, our great forefathers, discovered, through natural reason, the truth that sets man free.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

From the Great Schism of 1054 to the Protestant Revolution of the 16th century, from the Avignon Papacy to the French Revolution, and from the collapse of the Papal States to the aftermath of Vatican II, the story of the Church of the second millennium is one of tragedy and triumph.

From the Great Schism of 1054 to the Protestant Revolution of the 16th century, from the Avignon Papacy to the French Revolution, and from the collapse of the Papal States to the aftermath of Vatican II, the story of the Church of the second millennium is one of tragedy and triumph.

In the year 1054 A.D., Roman legates traveled to the ancient city of Constantinople in hopes of healing the strained relations between the Roman Pontiff and the Patriarch of the Greeks. However, the mutual excommunications which followed would rend the Church for a thousand years.

From the Great Schism of 1054 to the Protestant Revolution of the 16th century, from the Avignon Papacy to the French Revolution, and from the collapse of the Papal States to the aftermath of Vatican II, the story of the Church of the second millennium is one of tragedy and triumph.

From the Great Schism of 1054 to the Protestant Revolution of the 16th century, from the Avignon Papacy to the French Revolution, and from the collapse of the Papal States to the aftermath of Vatican II, the story of the Church of the second millennium is one of tragedy and triumph.

“This authority [of the popes] is not human but rather divine, granted to Peter by a divine word and reaffirmed to him and his successors by the One Whom Peter confessed, the Lord saying to Peter himself, ‘Whatsoever you shall bind on earth, shall be bound also in Heaven.’ Therefore whoever resists this power thus ordained by God, resists the ordinance of God. … Furthermore, we declare, we proclai...

"When the Son of man comes in his glory, and all the angels with him, then he will sit on his glorious throne. Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate them one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats, and he will place the sheep at his right hand, but the goats at the left. Then the King will say to those at his right hand, 'Come, O blessed of my Fat...

“This authority [of the popes] is not human but rather divine, granted to Peter by a divine word and reaffirmed to him and his successors by the One Whom Peter confessed, the Lord saying to Peter himself, ‘Whatsoever you shall bind on earth, shall be bound also in Heaven.’ Therefore whoever resists this power thus ordained by God, resists the ordinance of God. … Furthermore, we declare, we proclai...

“This authority [of the popes] is not human but rather divine, granted to Peter by a divine word and reaffirmed to him and his successors by the One Whom Peter confessed, the Lord saying to Peter himself, ‘Whatsoever you shall bind on earth, shall be bound also in Heaven.’ Therefore whoever resists this power thus ordained by God, resists the ordinance of God. … Furthermore, we declare, we proclai...