Keep The Faith's Podcast

Father George Rutler discusses spiritual renewal and moving the world. Beginning with a discussion of Edith Stein, a 20th-century Jewish convert and martyr who died at Auschwitz, Father George Rutler shows how the spiritual renewal of the Church can transform the world.

Father George Rutler contrasts the outlook of the world, which emphasizes a life of physical pleasure, with the supernatural outlook of the Church, which offers the life of the soul for all eternity.

Dr. William Marra describes the suicide of "Catholic" higher education. If you send your average Catholic teenage son or daughter to a mainstream Catholic university, don't expect them to return with their faith intact. After four years in the more prestigious Catholic schools, they will lose their faith, their morals and even their reason. Hear Dr. William Marra talk about the decline of Catholic...

Dr. Donald DeMarco describes the complete trivialization and marginalization of the Father and his authority, in law and culture. Secular society has reduced the Father to a mere "hubby" in relation his wife and family. Authority and love are tied to love and reverence, and paternal authority is being increasingly disrespected, leading to a moral crisis in society. The restoration of paternal and...

Dr. William E. May presents the teaching of the Church regarding the immorality of contraception and criticizes a number of false interpretations of the teaching Pope Paul VI's encyclical Humane Vitae of the intrinsic evil, morality, and the nature of contraception, that open loopholes that might be used to justify birth control in some specific cases.

Father John Perricone talks about temptation. Perhaps dozens of times a day we pray the Pater Noster . "Lead us not into temptation". God does not lead us into temptation, but He does allow us to be tempted. Father Perricone explains the five reasons why God allows us to be tempted.

Mr. Michael Davies grapples with the question of religious liberty and Vatican II. Can Dignitatis Humanae be reconciled with previous Papal teachings?

Father George Rutler tells of the Sacred Heart of Jesus in the Gospel accounts. The Sacred Heart of Jesus was pierced to reveal the inexhaustible fountain of mercy and goodness that God is. Father George Rutler tells us of the Sacred Heart in the Gospel accounts.

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, and now even churches are havens of naturalism. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses the casualties of naturalism.

Mr. Michael Davies and Mr. Christopher A. Ferrara discuss the Church's position on evolution. The Pontifical Biblical Commission, when it was still an authoritative body, prescribed a number of important beliefs for the Creation account of Genesis. One must believe that Eve was literally taken from the side of Adam, that humanity descended from this original couple, that they succumbed to the temp...

Michael S. Rose discusses the many facets of the so-called "gay subculture" in America's seminaries. He details the struggles that orthodox men have in getting ordained in the many corrupt seminaries. Michael S. Rose is the author of "Goodbye, Good Men"

Mr. Michael Davies, renowned convert, will bring tears to your eyes as he describes in detail the men of Cornwall who died for the Mass fighting against all odds. Ankle deep in blood?! You have never heard a tape like this! This church history lecture will place a fire in your soul to fight for tradition! from "Feed My Sheep- The Precious Gift of the Holy Eucharist: It's the Mass That Matters"

Father James McLucas speaks on the handling of the clerical abuse scandals and the Church in America. What do the clerical scandals and the way they were handled by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops tell us about the Catholic Church in America?

Mr. Christopher Ferrara, Esq., posits that the modernist perception of the right to religious liberty is an erroneous and harmful illusion. Catholic Tradition: Old Rites - New Rights: Phantom Right to Religious Liberty," Monterey 2004

A "bestseller" Catholic author, Mr. Michael S. Rose, describes the modernist manipulation within the Church since Vatican II.

Monsignor William Smith will hold your attention with his humor and intelligence while filling you with so many facts and anecdotes for your apostolate! Sacred doctrine makes sound morality along with God's covenant of love and life: this is true freedom. Find out why.

Monsignor William Smith addresses the burning issue of so-called Homosexual "Rights." Building on Aquinas, no one has the "right" to do wrong, and it is those who claim such rights who are defining themselves by their sinful behavior, and creating discrimination.

Attention! 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 that we came from God and we go back to God, and therefore we do not own our body.

Changes in the theology and liturgy of the Church have caused psychological difficulties for priests. Every normal man wants to feel like a husband and father, at least at the mature stages of life. The priest is no different. He needs to feel like a husband to the Church and father to his spiritual children. The modern changes in the Church have emasculated, or even feminized the priesthood. List...

After reviewing the history of the indult, Father James McLucas digs into 20th century Church history. The opposing forces of old and new theology collided in a mountainous battle. The old theology was discarded, and replaced with ideologies. A democratic ideology has replaced the traditional monarchic structure of the Church. Since priests of diocesan curias agree the indult is divisive, Bishops...

Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro treats the riches of Catholic political thought in the 16th and 17th century. That thought, which involved a variety of Jesuit scholars in particular, brought forth serious meditations on the origin of state authority, the limitations placed upon it by Christian morality, the Catholic hierarchy, tradition, and the needs of the population as a whole. One major issue which...

Plato's ideas were mostly known before the Renaissance through Neo-Platonist and the Church Fathers. One of the dialogues that the early Medievals had even a part of was the Timaeus . Dr. William Marra discusses the Timaeus' character and influence in two tapes. Taken from: Christianity in the Late Middle Ages-Early Renaissance - 1996 VonHildebrand Institute

Plato's Timaeus concerns the overflowing goodness of God and the creation of the world. This helped many medievals, including St. Bernard, to explain the goodness and hierarchy of the beauties of a nature redeemed by Christ. Dr. William Marra explains the problems that came from the possible use of the Timaeus by Gnostics, and Plato's inability to grasp creation ex nihilo . Taken from: Christianit...

Perhaps no Reformation era artist reflects the inner renewal and its transformation of outward physical reality more than El Greco. Monsignor Ignacio Barreiro discusses the connection between the great artist's life and vision and his spiritually-charged painted figures. Taken from: Protestant Rebellion and Catholic Reform (1517-1648) - 1997 VonHildebrand Institute

Carol Long develops the theme of the connection of theological and spiritual revival with the growth of Baroque Art in general. The Council of Trent and its "postconciliar" spirit are shown to link up with that unique artistic effort to raise all of nature "to the greater glory of God" also closely associated with the Jesuits. Taken from: Protestant Rebellion and Catholic Reform (1517-1648) - 1997...