Institute of Catholic Culture

"The unexamined life is not worth living."- Socrates

“Come to me, all you that labor and are burdened, and I will refresh you. Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek and humble of heart: and you shall find rest for your souls.”- Matthew 11:28-29

"Shine! Shine! O New Jerusalem! For the Glory of the Lord has shown upon you. Rejoice and be glad, O Sion, and you, O Pure One, O Mother of God, exult in the resurrection of your Son."

"He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth; like a lamb that is led to the slaughter, and like a sheep that before its shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth."- Isaiah 53:7

"The Holy Roman Church … believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart “into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41), unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fasting, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church."- Pope Eugene IV, Cantate Domino

"The Holy Roman Church … believes, professes, and proclaims that those not living within the Catholic Church, not only pagans, but also Jews and heretics and schismatics cannot become participants in eternal life, but will depart “into everlasting fire which was prepared for the devil and his angels” (Matthew 25:41), unless before the end of life the same have been added to the flock; and that the unity of the ecclesiastical body is so strong that only to those remaining in it are the sacraments of the Church of benefit for salvation, and do fasting, almsgiving, and other functions of piety and exercises of Christian service produce eternal reward, and that no one, whatever almsgiving he has practiced, even if he has shed blood for the name of Christ, can be saved, unless he has remained in the bosom and unity of the Catholic Church."- Pope Eugene IV, Cantate Domino

“I saw the snares that the enemy spreads out over the world and I said groaning, ‘What can get through such snares?’ Then I heard a voice saying to me, ‘Humility.’”- Life of St. Antony

The Apostle James is believed to have traveled as far as the Iberian Peninsula, spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ. The new Faith, however, would be battered by heresy under Visigothic rule and forced into servitude with the invasion of Islam in the year 711. In this talk, we discover the amazing story of the establishment and survival of Catholic Spain.

“Whosoever shall say that there was a time when the Son of God was not, or that before he was begotten he was not, or that he was made of things that were not, or that he is of a different substance or essence [from the Father] or that he is a creature, or subject to change or conversion—all that so say, the Catholic and Apostolic Church anathematizes them.”- Council of Nicaea

The Apostle James is believed to have traveled as far as the Iberian Peninsula, spreading the Good News of Jesus Christ. The new Faith, however, would be battered by heresy under Visigothic rule and forced into servitude with the invasion of Islam in the year 711. In this talk, we discover the amazing story of the establishment and survival of Catholic Spain.

“Christian, recognize your dignity and, now that you share in God’s own nature, do not return to your former base condition by sinning. Remember who is your head and of whose body you are a member. Never forget that you have been rescued from the power of darkness and brought into the light of the Kingdom of God.”- Pope St. Leo the Great

“Christian, recognize your dignity and, now that you share in God’s own nature, do not return to your former base condition by sinning. Remember who is your head and of whose body you are a member. Never forget that you have been rescued from the power of darkness and brought into the light of the Kingdom of God.”- Pope St. Leo the Great

“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”- John 3:3

"Natural law is, definitively, the only valid bulwark against the arbitrary power or the deception of ideological manipulation."- Pope Benedict XVI

“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”- John 3:3

"On this mountain the LORD of hosts will make for all peoples a feast of fat things, a feast of wine on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wine on the lees well refined."- Isaiah 25:6

“Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”- John 3:3

"Then Mathathias answered, and said with a loud voice: Although all nations obey King Antiochus, so as to depart every man from the service of the law of his fathers, and consent to his commandments: I and my sons, and my brethren will obey the law of our fathers. God be merciful unto us: it is not profitable for us to forsake the law, and the justices of God: We will not hearken to the words of King Antiochus, neither will we sacrifice and transgress the commandments of our law, to go another way. Now as he left off speaking these words, there came a certain Jew in the sight of all to sacrifice to the idols upon the altar in the city of Modin, according to the king’s commandment. And Mathathias saw, and was grieved, and his reins trembled, and his wrath was kindled according to the judgment of the law, and running upon him he slew him upon the altar: Moreover the man whom King Antiochus had sent, who compelled them to sacrifice, he slew at the same time, and pulled down the altar, and showed zeal for the law, as Phinees did by Zamri, the son of Salomi. And Mathathias cried out in the city with a loud voice, saying: Every one that has zeal for the law, and maintains the testament, let him follow me. So he and his sons fled into the mountains, and left all that they had in the city."- Maccabees 2:19 - 26

"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he."- Zechariah 9:9

"Men had turned from the contemplation of God above, and were looking for Him in the opposite direction, down among created things and things of sense. The Savior of us all, the Word of God, in His great love took to Himself a body and moved as Man among men, meeting their senses, so to speak, half way. He became Himself an object for the senses, so that those who were seeking God in sensible things might apprehend the Father through the works which He, the Word of God, did in the body."- St. Athanasius, On the Incarnation

"Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion! Shout aloud, O daughter of Jerusalem! Lo, your king comes to you; triumphant and victorious is he."- Zechariah 9:9

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

"If anyone examines the state of affairs outside the Christian fold, he will easily discover the principle trends that not a few learned men are following. Some imprudently and indiscreetly hold that evolution, which has not been fully proved even in the domain of natural sciences, explains the origin of all things, and audaciously support the monistic and pantheistic opinion that the world is in continual evolution … so that, when the souls of men have been deprived of every idea of a personal God, they may the more efficaciously defend and propagate their dialectical materialism."- Pope Pius XII, Humani Generis

"Musical training is a more potent instrument than any other, because rhythm and harmony find their way into the inward places of the soul; on which they mightily fasten, imparting grace, and making the soul of him who is rightly educated graceful, or of him who is ill-educated ungraceful; and also because he who has received this education of the inner being will most shrewdly perceive omissions or faults in art and nature, and with a true taste, while he praises and rejoices over and receives into his soul the good, and becomes noble and good, he will justly blame and hate the bad, now in the days of his youth, even before he is able to know the reason why; and when reason comes he will recognize and salute the friend with whom his education has made him long familiar."- Plato, Republic

"The Second Vatican Council strongly desired to preserve with care the authentic Liturgy, which flows forth from the Church’s living and most ancient spiritual tradition, and to adapt it with pastoral wisdom to the genius of the various peoples so that the faithful might find in their full, conscious, and active participation in the sacred actions–especially the celebration of the Sacraments–an abundant source of graces and a means for their own continual formation in the Christian mystery."- Liturgiam Authenticam 1

"The Second Vatican Council strongly desired to preserve with care the authentic Liturgy, which flows forth from the Church’s living and most ancient spiritual tradition, and to adapt it with pastoral wisdom to the genius of the various peoples so that the faithful might find in their full, conscious, and active participation in the sacred actions–especially the celebration of the Sacraments–an abundant source of graces and a means for their own continual formation in the Christian mystery."- Liturgiam Authenticam 1

Since the revolution of Martin Luther and his attacks upon the Holy Mass, the Roman Catholic Church has witnessed a period of liturgical development, change, decline, and restoration, such as has never been known in all of Christendom. Learn about the recent history of the Mass from Solesmes to the reforms to Vatican II, the liturgical unrest of the post-Vatican II period, and the project of liturgical restoration inaugurated by Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.

Since the revolution of Martin Luther and his attacks upon the Holy Mass, the Roman Catholic Church has witnessed a period of liturgical development, change, decline, and restoration, such as has never been known in all of Christendom. Learn about the recent history of the Mass from Solesmes to the reforms to Vatican II, the liturgical unrest of the post-Vatican II period, and the project of liturgical restoration inaugurated by Pope John Paul II and Pope Benedict XVI.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

The Institute of Catholic Culture is an adult educational organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization.

"The development of culture imposes on those who carry out the ministry of the Word, at various levels, to be well prepared. Hence I exhort all, pastors and laity, to cultivate this 'cultural dimension' of faith, so that the beauty of the Christian truth can be better understood and faith can be truly nourished, reinforced and also defended."- Pope Benedict XVI

In the year 1930 the Archbishop of Canterbury convened the decennial conference of the Anglican Communion in the city of Lambeth. What followed would lead to the moral collapse of the Church of England and the eventual splintering of the Anglican Communion.

In the year 1930 the Archbishop of Canterbury convened the decennial conference of the Anglican Communion in the city of Lambeth. What followed would lead to the moral collapse of the Church of England and the eventual splintering of the Anglican Communion.

"The conciliar definitions on the Bishop of Rome’s mission must be understood and explained in the light of … Christian tradition. It should be kept in mind that the traditional language used by the councils, especially the First Vatican Council, in regard to the powers of both the Pope and the bishops, uses terms proper to the world of civil law, which in this case must be given their correct ecclesial meaning."- Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Feb. 24, 1993

“It must be confessed that the number of the enemies of the cross of Christ has in these last days increased exceedingly, who are striving, by arts, entirely new and full of subtlety, to destroy the vital energy of the Church, and, if they can, to overthrow utterly Christ’s kingdom itself.”- Pope St. Pius X

"The conciliar definitions on the Bishop of Rome’s mission must be understood and explained in the light of … Christian tradition. It should be kept in mind that the traditional language used by the councils, especially the First Vatican Council, in regard to the powers of both the Pope and the bishops, uses terms proper to the world of civil law, which in this case must be given their correct ecclesial meaning."- Pope John Paul II, General Audience, Feb. 24, 1993

"Indeed the safest road to hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

"Indeed the safest road to hell is the gradual one–the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts."- C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letters

“The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.” - Martin LutherIn the year 1517, a young Augustinian monk by the name of Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the castle church at Wittenburg, protesting certain teachings and practices of the Catholic Church and sparking a revolution within the heart of Christendom. At the center of Luther’s heresy was his rejection of the Catholic Mass.

“The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.” - Martin LutherIn the year 1517, a young Augustinian monk by the name of Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the castle church at Wittenburg, protesting certain teachings and practices of the Catholic Church and sparking a revolution within the heart of Christendom. At the center of Luther’s heresy was his rejection of the Catholic Mass.

“The Mass is the greatest blasphemy of God, and the highest idolatry upon earth, an abomination the like of which has never been in Christendom since the time of the Apostles.” - Martin LutherIn the year 1517, a young Augustinian monk by the name of Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the castle church at Wittenburg, protesting certain teachings and practices of the Catholic Church and sparking a revolution within the heart of Christendom. At the center of Luther’s heresy was his rejection of the Catholic Mass.

People are shocked and frightened by the behavior coming out of the Islamic world—not only because it is violent, but also because it is seemingly inexplicable. While there are many answers to the question of “what went wrong” in the Muslim world, no one has decisively answered why it went wrong. Until now.

People are shocked and frightened by the behavior coming out of the Islamic world—not only because it is violent, but also because it is seemingly inexplicable. While there are many answers to the question of “what went wrong” in the Muslim world, no one has decisively answered why it went wrong. Until now.

The Divine Comedy is an epic poem penned in the 14th century by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. In what is regarded as one of the greatest works of Catholic literature, Dante invites his reader on a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven patterned on the Paschal Mystery of Christ, through which the suffering of the Cross becomes the passageway to eternal life.

The Divine Comedy is an epic poem penned in the 14th century by the Italian poet Dante Alighieri. In what is regarded as one of the greatest works of Catholic literature, Dante invites his reader on a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven patterned on the Paschal Mystery of Christ, through which the suffering of the Cross becomes the passageway to eternal life.

What controversy so vexed the apostles that Paul rebuked Peter “to his face” before Peter’s own congregation at Antioch (Galatians 2:15)? It was the doctrine of justification by faith—the same controversy which led Martin Luther to oppose the Pope and break from the Catholic Church 1500 years later. Catholics can affirm with Protestants that we are justified by faith—but not by faith alone, as Luther taught. Paul’s succinct phrase, “faith working through love” (Galatians 5:6), still has the power to heal divisions among Christians today.

What controversy so vexed the apostles that Paul rebuked Peter “to his face” before Peter’s own congregation at Antioch (Galatians 2:15)? It was the doctrine of justification by faith—the same controversy which led Martin Luther to oppose the Pope and break from the Catholic Church 1500 years later. Catholics can affirm with Protestants that we are justified by faith—but not by faith alone, as Luther taught. Paul’s succinct phrase, “faith working through love” (Galatians 5:6), still has the power to heal divisions among Christians today.