Iota Unum, Episode 22: The Religious Orders
In this episode, the sad tale of the destruction of the religious orders is told, and worse, how they destroyed themselves without any help from the outside world. Original Air Date: June 15, 2021...
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Iota Unum, Episode 21: Catechetics
In this episode, Father and Stephen explore Professor Amerio’s comments on the “new catechetics,” which uses words we’ve unfortunately come to hear too often: “encounter,” “search,” “deepening,” “human dignity,” “dialogue,” etc. as substitutes for...
Iota Unum, Episode 20: Schools
In this episode, Father and Stephen discuss the destruction not just of Catholic schools, but the destruction of Catholic education, the rise of (inferior) public schools, the mangling of the teacher-student relationship, and the...
Iota Unum, Episode 19: Religious and Social Movements
This series which examines Professor Romano Amerio’s significant work documenting what he calls “changes in the Catholic Church” continues this season by examining the effect that Vatican II had on social movements and political...
Season 10, June Course: Iota Unum
The days are getting longer and warmer as spring melts into summer with its hot, humid days here in the midwestern United States. It has actually been unseasonably warm, which has brought an early...
The Councils, Episode 24: The Council of Florence, Part II
With its earlier challenges out of the way, the Council was free to turn its attention to union with the Schismatics, which resulted in a magnificent, if once again, short-lived, union with the Greeks,...
The Councils, Episode 23: The Council of Florence, Part I
The first part of this two-part miniseries on the Council of Florence gives the background to the Council, including its strange beginnings in Basel and its move to Ferrara. Some positive reforms in Bohemia...
The Councils, Episode 22: The Council of Constance
The Council of Constance resolved the Great Western Schism, but it also gave birth to a new error, Concilarism, which would continue to be felt for centuries after. A special note of thanks to...
The Councils, Episode 21: The Council of Vienne
A curious and interesting council that resolved, at least for a time, a split between the French Crown and the Papacy via the suppression of the Knights Templar. This was also the first Council...
The Councils, Episode 20: The Second Council of Lyons
This Council occurred not long after what had been a 3 year vacancy of the Holy See as well as the tragic sack of Constantinople by a sidetracked Fourth Crusade. Blessed Gregory X presided...
