Lecture Series
The New York City Lecture Series in Church History offers an in-depth discussion of consecutive periods in the life of Christendom each year from September through May.
The Roman Forum Lectures in Church History 2021–2022
Diabolical Disorientation:
Marxist-Pluralist Madness and the Suicide of Christendom 1944–1978
| Lecturer: |
John C. Rao (D. Phil., Oxford) Associate Professor of History, St. John’s University |
| Date & Time: |
All sessions will meet on Sundays, at 2:30 p.m. (See schedule below for specific dates of lectures.) Wine & cheese reception: $15 |
| Location: |
Most Holy Redeemer Church East 3rd Street, between Avenues A & B Both audio and videotapes of all lectures will be posted on the Internet. |
| Schedule: |
September 12Pius XII and the “Year Zero”: 1944-1945September 26Pius XII in the Marxist-Pluralist MazeOctober 10The East is Red — But to What Extent?October 24“Atlanticism” and the American Pluralist TemptationNovember 7Worker-Priests, Communitarian Personalism, and the Western Marxist TemptationNovember 21A Global Church with Global ProblemsDecember 5Pius XII and the Progressive Liturgical MovementDecember 19Pius XII and the New TheologyJanuary 9 2022Pope John’s CouncilJanuary 23The Council Coup d’État and the Tyranny of the MajorityFebruary 6The “Spirit of the Council” and the Progressive Attempt to Build a Parallel MagisteriumFebruary 20Novus Ordo Missae and the Society of St. Pius XMarch 6Paul VI: Gaudium et Spes or “The Smoke of Satan”?March 20A Parallel Magisterium? EcumenismMarch 27A Parallel Magisterium? Third World TheologyApril 10A Parallel Magisterium? Liberation Theology and OstpolitikApril 24A Parallel Magisterium? Religious Pluralism and the Closing of the Catholic Mind and SpiritMay 8A Diabolically Disoriented Church & the Death of Paul VI |
