Keep The Faith's Podcast

Pope Saint Pius X (1903 A.D. - 1914 A.D.) "Our Glorious Popes" is a ten-part series. Listening to Our Glorious Popes will refresh your appreciation of grace in the lives of men in all times and places. Meet some of the first Popes to follow Saint Peter in giving their lives in testimony to the Truth of the Faith. The great and often sainted Vicars of Christ have led the Church in times of politica...

Mrs. Judie Brown breaks down the illusions of secular humanism within the United States, focusing on the role the movement plays in our politics. Following this she explains the responsibilities of modern day Catholics to stand up for their faith against the assault of the secular world.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen movingly describes the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass as a drama that takes us back to Cavalry. He realtes some powerful stories of the power of the mass and the fruits of spending time in Adoration in front of the Blessed Sacrament. A half-hour talk followed by sacred music.

Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen argues that within the modern age the existence of guilt has begun to be universally denied. He states that man has always been subject to his conscience, so even if the rest of society pretends that man is above guilt this lecture shows how there always has and always will be a need for the sacrament of reconciliation.

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand sketches the underpinnings of Feminism.

Father Vincent Miceli, S.J., eloquently exposes the philanthropic cover of Freemasonry to show the link between atheistic philosophy, modernist views, and Masonry and their relationship to the Catholic Church.

Father John O'Connor's piercing discourse includes the nature and origin of Angels, the Fatima revelations, and the plunge of the modern world into the realm of the evil one.  "Hell:  The Kingdom of the Prince of Darkness"

Father Vincent Miceli S.J., author of "The Roots of Violence," examines the rise of Modernism, that child of the French Revolution, and its materialistic, modernist credo.

Dr. David Allen White explains the nature and importance of stories in general, as images of the act of Creation, and explores in detail the greatest of the Chansons de Gestes, The Song of Roland, an epic Medieval poem glorifying the exploits of a knight in the service of Charlemagne fighting Moslems in Spain. Taken from: Christianity in the High Middle Ages - 1995 Von Hildebrand Institute

Dr. David Allen White explores the "other side of chivalry"; knights were obliged to fight loyally for God and for their lords, but were also obliged to perfect courtesy toward others, particularly women. The extensive requirements of the chivalric code, which governed the lives of Medieval knights, is detailed, and the difference between the ideal of marriage and that of courtly love is explored....

Dr. David Allen White expounds on Dante's masterpiece, explaining how The Divine Comedy transforms the faulty notion of courtly love into the mystical union between the soul and God. In Part I, Dr. White discusses Dante's life and formation in the context of the political situation of the day, the nature of comedy as such, the allegorical aspects of the poem, and the structure of the poem. Taken f...

Dr. David Allen White richly analyzes Dante's Divine Comedy. In Part II, Dr. White richly analyzes the Inferno, the Purgatorio, and the Paradiso in light of Catholic thought. Taken from: Christianity in the High Middle Ages - 1995 Von Hildebrand Institute

Dr. David Allen White analyses the person and poetry of Petrarch, who arguably introduced the literary forms of the High Middle Ages in the 14th century, specifically the sonnet. Petrarch is contrasted with Dante, and in Petrarch is seen the beginning Humanism, the beginning of the loss of the Christian sense of immortality in Western culture. Taken from: Christianity in the Late Middle Ages-Early...

Dr. David Allen White introduces Chaucer, telling his life and focusing on his masterpiece, The Canterbury Tales. Dr. White explains the connection between Chaucer and the works of Dante, Boccaccio, and Petrarch, and shows how The Canterbury Tales reveals a whole tapestry of the social order of the Middle Ages. Dr. White also explains how the Tales contain seeds of modern thought, as we see the in...

Dr. David Allen White introduces Medieval drama, explaining its various forms, its historical development from tropes inserted within the Mass to full-scale stage plays, and its purpose as an entertaining visualization of important truths. Taken from: Christianity in the Late Middle Ages-Early Renaissance - 1996 Von Hildebrand Institute

"The Wakefield Noah", a Medieval Mystery Play, is performed by members of the Dietrich Von Hildebrand Institute. Taken from: Christianity in the Late Middle Ages-Early Renaissance - 1996 VonHildebrand Institute

Mr. Michael Davies shows how Pope Liberius gave in to political pressure in his talk. The great battle of Athanasius against the Arian and Arianizing Emperors brought tremendous political pressure upon the Popes of the 300's. Liberius "gave in" to this pressure, though in a way which Mr. Michael Davies shows to have been quite complex and nuanced. Taken from: Early Christianity and Late Antiquity...

Father Richard Munkelt discusses Homer and how his writings can be shown to point towards God and Christianity. St. Irenaeus spoke of "seeds of the Logos" indicating the good of God's Creation among the pagans. Father Richard Munkelt talks in this lecture of Homer's writings and how he can be shown to point towards God and Christianity. Taken from: Early Christianity and Late Antiquity - 1993 Von...

Father Richard Munkelt continues his discussion of Homer for Christians by showing how Homer's writings inspire meditation on many of the great themes of Christian morality. He uses writings of Simone Weil in order to study Homer's attitude towards war, peace, and justice. Taken from: Early Christianity and Late Antiquity - 1993 Von Hildebrand Institute

Father Richard Munkelt discusses human suffering through Homer's character, Penelope. The kind of Christian-friendly themes that Homer evokes in the Odyssey differ from those in the Iliad. Father Richard Munkelt explores Homer's treatment of the redemptive character of suffering, perseverance, and education. Taken from: Early Christianity and Late Antiquity - 1993 VonHildebrand Institute

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand tackles a necessary but difficult subject: the personality of Luther and his troubled psychology. Anyone familiar with Luther's language and his increasing paranoia and conviction of impending disaster knows how much a study of his personal relationship with God, sin, penance, the German people, and nature as a whole is essential to understanding the whole of the Reformati...

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses Kierkegaard's critique of Martin Luther. Kierkegaard, the great nineteenth century existentialist religious writer, was himself an Evangelical Christian. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand discusses here the Danish philosopher's critique of the first Protestant reformer. Taken from: Protestant Rebellion and Catholic Reform (1517-1648) - 1997 Von Hildebrand Institute

Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand describes how philosophical discussions of religion are ethical in character. Philosophical discussions of morality are "ethical" in character. Dr. Alice Von Hildebrand treats here of the way in which they relate to theology, spiritual matters, and religion in general. Taken from: Protestant Rebellion and Catholic Reform (1517-1648) - 1997 Von Hildebrand Institute

Dr. David Allen White discusses the Council of Trent and the Sacred Music of Palestrina. The Tridentine Reform had to tackle the question of music and the liturgy along with many other more strictly doctrinal issues. Dr. David Allen White White discusses in this tape the importance of judging the acceptability of different musical styles, the problems of the use of polyphony in the life of the Chu...

Dr. David Allen White discusses the Catholic themes to be found in William Shakespeare, whose life bridges the time between the Catholic-Protestant struggle for the soul of England and Elizabeth's shaping of it according to an Anglican "middle way" between two "extremes". Taken from: Protestant Rebellion and Catholic Reform (1517-1648) - 1997 Von Hildebrand Institute