Institute of Catholic Culture

"In just thirteen years, [the] world was to be transformed as no single mortal man before or since has transformed it, united and ordered all the way from Greece to the shrouded heart of India..." — Warren Carroll, The Founding of Christendom, 197

This is part one of a two-part series of Advent reflections with Monsignor Charles Pope.

"Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the power of those who plundered them. And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them..." - Part 2/2

"Then the Lord raised up judges, who saved them out of the power of those who plundered them. And yet they did not listen to their judges; for they played the harlot after other gods and bowed down to them..." - Part 1/2

Are works of fiction just frivolous diversions from matters of real importance? What does literature have to do with our life of faith? Dr. Arbery leads a discussion to discover why good literature is critically important to rebuilding a healthy culture.

This two-part lecture analyzes the first three chapters of Genesis in light of the liturgy established by God and Moses at Mount Sinai detailed in Exodus and Leviticus.

This two-part lecture analyzes the first three chapters of Genesis in light of the liturgy established by God and Moses at Mount Sinai detailed in Exodus and Leviticus.

The uniting of two worlds in 1492 is perhaps the most significant event in human history since the Incarnation, with a remarkable man at its center. Find out why we should be building more statues to this heroic man, not tearing them down.

Learn the three keys to exposing the errors of Centering Prayer and Eastern mysticism, and understand how these errors, which are outside of an authentic Catholic spirituality, have crept into popular Catholic culture.

When a society is about to go bad, we should look to the music first, because it fires the imagination and the passions which give man the energy to act. Dr. Esolen analyzes traditional and modern hymns for insight into the state of the liturgy today.