Aug 26, 2022
John Rao speaks of Purification as a Popular Theme, 1914 Onwards. The first of these four talks by Dr. Rao deals with the theme of purification of the social order. That theme was one that became popular in the secular world with the outbreak of the First World War, as though somehow the "beauty" of conflict would purge...
Aug 26, 2022
John Rao addresses the subject of Competition in the Call for Purification, 1919-1939. Unfortunately, the Catholic Church was not the only voice offering a purification message competing with that of the warmongers. Three others came onto the scene. One of these was that of Soviet Communism, which argued that the...
Aug 26, 2022
John Rao discusses how Church Theory is Often Defeated by Church Practice. Papal teaching in the interwar period theoretically confirmed the message of the nineteenth century revival movement regarding how to build the Social Kingship of Christ. This required the recognition of the value of all of nature's...
Aug 26, 2022
John Rao talks about the Tendencies Leading to the Abandonment of The Theory of Christ the King. Many Catholics in the interwar period were in practice devoted to Liberalism, Americanism, Fascism, and even Soviet Communist ideas. Others were concerned to understand why the new forces of Fascism and Soviet...
Aug 26, 2022
Jamie Bogle talks about an Example of Social Doctrine in Practice. Salazar, an economist at the University of Coimbra, was called in by the army that took power in Portugal from a virulently anti-Catholic government in the late 1920's in order to put the nation on an even keel once again. Perhaps the most...