Keep The Faith's Podcast

Monsignor William Smith details the implications of current definitions of death, attitudes towards suffering and the verbal engineering that usually precedes social engineering in his talk, "The Manipulation of Human Life"

This incisive address by Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., unfolds the tragic reality of Christ's Church, living in a crossfire between an enraged atheism and enemies from within and without.

Dr. William Marra presents a most beautiful meditation on God, the Infinite Reality Who calls us all to sanctity.

Dr. John Rao examines the writings of Pope Pius XII to determine the validity of the Liberals' claim to this beloved Pontiff.

Mrs. Theresa Ickinger urges devotion to Mary, the perfect chalice of God, whose soul "magnifies the Lord," in these days when Modernism persecutes the Church.

Dr. William Marra contrasts the current counterfeit peace--not found at every level of society--with true peace.

Dr. William Marra presents the Michael Jones story. Professor James Hitchcock of St. Louis University interviews E. Michael Jones on his spate at Notre Dame University. Jones was dismissed from Notre Dame because he was too outspokenly Pro-Life. Thought Notre Dame was Catholic?

Monsignor William Smith discusses the misleading road to situation ethics which leads to emptiness and a moral vacuum. His talk, "The Nature, Function & Formation of Conscience," instructs us that we have an obligation to form a correct conscience.

In an examination of the contradictory pluralism of Father Charles Curran, Monsignor William Smith provides genuine applications of "Double Effect" to refute the situationism of Father Richard McCormick.

In this general introduction, Monsignor William Smith discusses the principles fundamental to Moral Theology - principles located in Sacred Scripture, clarified by Sacred Tradition, and taught by the Magisterium of the Church. "The Fundamentals of Moral Theology" is a ten-part series.

Monsignor William Smith focuses on sound morals as the fruit of sound doctrine which, in turn, has its source in God's Revelation. "The Fundamentals of Moral Theology" is a ten-part series.

Monsignor William Smith, in discussing the foundations of Catholic Moral Theology, draws on the teaching of Saint Thomas Aquinas on human acts and examines the elements and implications of the Principle of double effect. "The Fundamentals of Moral Theology" is a ten-part series.

Monsignor William Smith traces the current trend toward situation ethics and explains the norm of external morality, or law, as fundamental to Moral Theology. Monsignor gives an examination of several situations illustrating the Principle of double effect. "The Fundamentals of Moral Theology" is a ten-part series.

Monsignor William Smith elucidates the internal norm of morality, or conscience. He outlines its nature and function while making distinctions between the correct, certain, erroneous, and doubtful conscience. "The Fundamentals of Moral Theology" is a ten-part series.

Monsignor William Smith explains the fact that the non-answers of a pastoral solution that address questions of right and wrong in terms of subjective guilt for actions that are objectively wrong is a practical situational ethics. "The Fundamentals of Moral Theology" is a ten-part series.

In the domain of medical ethics, Monsignor William Smith defines medical, moral and legal applications of 'ordinary and extra-ordinary means.' He warns against the current use of word-play for the purpose of confusing terminology and altering medical ethics. "The Fundamentals of Moral Theology" is a ten-part series.

Monsignor William Smith applies the principles of Moral Theology to the Right to Life and to the connection between self-defense, capital punishment, and the just war. "The Fundamentals of Moral Theology" is a ten-part series.

Monsignor William Smith, lecturing on human sexuality in the context of virtue, renders an understanding of the dimension of love and life in human sexuality within the covenant of marriage. "The Fundamentals of Moral Theology" is a ten-part series.  

Monsignor William Smith focuses on the virtue of religion: the positive obligation of Sunday Mass and the effort to make Sunday the Lord's Day. He also speaks on the rights and duties of parents and schools concerning the education of children. "The Fundamentals of Moral Theology" is a ten-part series.

Dr. William Marra interviews Catholic mothers outraged over the lack of Catholicism in nominally Catholic schools. What are parents to do? Catholic parents sacrifice to send their children to Catholic schools, but the schools betray them by abandoning Catholic beliefs and practices. Though the source for this interview is incomplete, we publish this interview excerpt for the insight it provides on...

Dr. William Marra presents the Saints for us to emulate as our heroes. Each age has a image of it's heroes - from the earliest times it was a warrior - a man of courage and strength – then athletes. In the middle ages the heroic ideal was the Saint, and in the Renaissance it was a genius in the arts and sciences and later it was the captains of industry. Today's "heroes" are celebrities and anti-h...

Dr. John Rao unfolds the separation of the natural and the supernatural and the ultimate consequences of the divorce of science from the Catholic world view.

Father Edwin Gordon explains in a practical way the differences which distinguish theology and the Teaching of the Church. Prayer, Father Gordon says, prepares our minds for the seeds of God's Word. In the first of the four part series, "Upon The Rock," Father Edwin Gordon fervently teaches us about Christ, the Church, Mary and the saints- as an adequate catechesis of the faithful is the Rock upon...

Father Edwin Gordon explains in a practical way the differences which distinguish theology and the Teaching of the Church. The good things in life, says Father Gordon, are a foretaste of Heaven. In the second of the four part series, "Upon The Rock," Father Gordon fervently teaches us about the Divine and Human Natures of Christ, the Four Last Things- as an adequate catechesis of the faithful is t...

Father Edwin Gordon explains in a practical way the differences which distinguish theology and the Teaching of the Church. Father Gordon instructs us that Our Lord was immersed in the River Jordan to show that Our Lord immersed Himself in our human condition in all things except sin. "Upon the Rock" is a four-part series.