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Father John Perricone describes Confession as the sacrament that heals. "Man receives his greatest dignity in the confessional," after he has fulfilled the integrity of the sacrament. Father John Perricone explains that means that we must confess our sins, have contrition, and a firm purpose of amendment. 32 min. Taken from - Evenings of Recollection

Father John Perricone explains why only the Catholic Church has the answers and how this Church protects us. The Catholic Church is responsible for sciences and the university and the ultimate questions that must be answered. Father John Perricone explains brilliantly ten reasons why the Catholic Church is necessary for us and how this Church protects us. 46 min.

Father John Perricone discusses everything you always wanted to know about sex from the One who invented it. In a lucid manner, Father John Perricone discusses the fact that sex is sacred because it is closely aligned to God the Father, and it is part of the natural moral law. He shows us the beauty of the Catholic viewpoint in which modesty and reserve take the spotlight. 30 min.

Father John Perricone explains the nightmare of human embryonic research and how it is Frankenstein's dream come true. You will want to listen to this talk more than once! It is filled with very important information that will serve you well in any discussion on human embryonic research. In this talk, Father John Perricone proves conclusively that what is present in a human embryo is a human perso...

Father John Perricone explains the five conditions for the Just War. Fr. Perricone, in a clear and logical manner, helps us to understand the Church's "just war" teaching - a controversial subject. He explains thoroughly the 5 conditions for a just war. Included in this discussion are the roles played by Revelation and Reason. 35 min.

Father John Perricone discusses our free will in the talk, "Isn't Everyone Going to Heaven?" Contrary to the "victimology" of today, we do have free will and are responsible for our actions. Father John Perricone summarizes the Four Last Things and Purgatory. 50 min.

Father John Perricone explains how sin is defeated when we make a good confession. Confession is the laboratory of the Holy Spirit. Father Perricone continues this unique thought by telling us that the Catholic Church is the only church that will tell us the truth about ourselves. The "bad" news we discover about ourselves becomes good news with the joy of freedom of soul. 30 min.

Father John Perricone  discusses the evil of the contraceptive mentality and tells us why the culture of death resulted from the deadly reversal of pleasure first, procreation later.  He   has an aptitude for making difficult subjects clearly understood. He informs us that the conjugal act mirrors the Trinity. 61 min.

Father Anthony J. Mastroeni gives an impassioned and detailed analysis of the growth of homosexual clergy within the Catholic priesthood from the 1940s to today. The Blessed Virgin Mary's messages at Fatima and Akita are especially relevant to understanding the current immense crisis. The saints have shown that an attack on the priesthood is a direct attack on the heart of the Church and an attack...

Father Joseph Illo explains that the priest is formed by the Mass, for better or worse. Drawing on the story of his own vocation and experience as a parish priest, Father offers hope and a long-term vision of how we can counter today's grave crisis in the priesthood. In a day and age when Truth and Goodness are rejected by almost everyone in the culture, it is by sharing especially the Beauty of t...

Chris Ferrara, starting with a detailed look at the words and actions of Pope Francis, offers a diagnosis as well as a prognosis for the severe crisis that is magnified by the manifold errors that daily emerge from the Holy Father. Many, if not most, bishops are no better. They have devolved into liberal social justice warriors and the majority of bishops are cowards involved in covering up or ign...

Fr. Joseph Illo gives a sermon on the mystery and value of Suffering for the sake of the Gospel on this Sexagesima Sunday. Father explains that "If we find ourselves obsessed with avoiding pain, when we can't bear any suffering, then we deny God's saving grace at work in us." From the 2019 Monterey Conference - When Shepherds Become Wolves.

The Conference speakers address a wide range of questions that arose from the content of the talks and the conference.

Mr. Michael Davies explains that the program for Vatican II was quite different from that which was examined and ultimately promulgated once the Council began. Why is this the case? Mr. Michael Davies shows that an organized group of progressives took advantage of the lack of organization of traditionalists and pushed the Council down an unexpected direction. Taken from: My End is My Beginning: Th...

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 wavelength as the progressives anyway. This, Mr. Davies explains, allowed the two groups together to give shape to the Council's development. Taken from: My End is My Beginning: The Analogy of Contemporary Christianity With its Anc...

Michael Davies says that Progressives were eager to work together with Protestants. This meant that Protestant observers of the Council often played not only a role but even a determining role in its sessions. Mr. Davies discusses the Protestants in question, their Catholic allies, and the specific influences they had. Taken from: My End is My Beginning: The Analogy of Contemporary Christianity Wi...

Mr. Michael Davies is most known for his work on the liturgical revolution. Here, he summarizes how the movement for liturgical reform transmuted into the monster that it became, and then used Vatican II, the organs established to effect the reforms of Vatican II, and the "spirit of the Council" to create the new liturgy. Taken from: My End is My Beginning: The Analogy of Contemporary Christianity...

Dr. John Rao argues that a deep study of the late 1400's and early 1500's reveals many vibrant elements in Catholic theological, philosophical, mystical, and broad cultural life. Major reform movements, such as those in Spain, were well underway, and smaller ones were beginning everywhere. But the Church was nevertheless in a desperate state. The Papacy and hierarchy in general were highly politic...

Dr. John Rao discusses the two first great Protestant reformers. One sees in Luther's activity the way in which Nominalist denigration of man's ability to know objective Truth and Humanist preference for rhetoric come together in a troubled political and social atmosphere to set off a spiritual revolution. Zwingli's success is shown to depend upon similar circumstances, with the difference being t...

Dr. John Rao explains that Luther and Zwingli's emphasis upon Faith and Scripture alone immediately gave birth to differences of viewpoint and encouraged the growth of still more radical Protestant sects like the Enthusiasts and the Anabaptists. It also led to the secularization of Church lands, the abandonment by bishops, priests, and monks of their tasks, political manipulation of religion, and...

Dr. John Rao shows that Catholics, as usual, were slow in awakening to the real significance of the Protestant assault. Eck and Fisher were among the few early thinkers who understood the menace. Many dioceses, principalities, and cities fell to the Protestants without much thought or resistance. Slowly, however, reformers began to pull the Papacy away from its purely political obsessions and show...

Dr. John Rao explains that it was the Protestants who first called for a Council. He shows that papal fears of conciliarism and political battles involving Germany, France, and Spain delayed its beginning and the choice of its meeting place. Once Paul III showed some serious desire to open it in Trent, the Protestants no longer wished to come. Taken from: Protestant Rebellion and Catholic Reform (...

Dr. John Rao explains that one major problem with the Protestants is that their own divisions became more and more permanent. These divisions were increased by the arrival of Jean Calvin and Reformed Christianity on the scene as well as through the creation of official statements of faith and major Protestant treatises explaining them. Dr. Rao shows that it was becoming clear that religious battle...

Dr. John Rao  explains that the Council of Trent met in three different sessions, each of which had its own special character. The first of these two talks by Dr. Rao deals with the beginning sessions, the basic decision to deal with both doctrinal and pastoral questions simultaneously, and the quarrels pitting Charles V against the Protestants on the one hand and the Popes on the other. Taken fro...

Dr. John Rao explains that after a period under Paul IV when "action" rather than "talk" was favored, a Third session of the Council of Trent met. This was the biggest session, France finally taking part in the deliberations. The Jesuits also played a major role for the first time. The Council ended in a spirit of unity on the one hand and a sense of impending crisis, especially in France, on the...