First International Congress of Catholic Christendom
Gardone 2013
Divine Comedy or Theater of the Absurd?
July 1 – Monday
10:30 A.M. & 4:00 P.M.
Transport from Malpensa Airport
7:00 P.M.
Cocktail Party
8:30 P.M.
Dinner
July 2 – Tuesday
Breakfast
Lecture – 10:30 A.M.
The Incarnation, the Mystical Body of Christ, and the Transformation of Individual and Society
John Rao
Traditional Mass – 12:15 P.M.
Lunch (on own)
Lecture – 6:00 P.M.
Poetry, Theater, the Novel, and Music: Either Stairways to God or Trap Doors Leading to Hell
John Rao
Vespers – 7:30 P.M.
Dinner – 8:00 P.M.
July 3 – Wednesday
Breakfast
Lecture – 10:30 A.M.
The Organic Society and the Principle of Subsidiarity
Patrick Brennan
Traditional Mass – 12:15 P.M.
Lunch (on own)
Lecture – 5:30 P.M.
No Philosophy, No Culture
Fr Richard Munkelt
Vespers – 7:30 P.M.
Dinner – 8:00 P.M.
July 4 – Thursday
Breakfast
Lecture – 10:30 A.M.
The City, City Planning, and Catholic Christendom
John Rao
Traditional Mass – 12:15 P.M.
Lunch (on own)
Lecture – 6:00 P.M.
The Modern Banking System: A Structure of Sin?
George Hochreiter
Vespers – 7:30 P.M.
Dinner – 8:00 P.M.
Performance – Philoctetes (Sophocles)
July 5 – Friday
Breakfast
Lecture – 10:30 A.M.
Vulgar Libertarianism: The Janus-Faced Defense of World Corporate Hegemony
Christopher Ferrara
Traditional Mass – 12:15 P.M.
Lunch (on own)
Lecture – 5:00 P.M.
I Shop, Therefore I am: Advertising and Postmodernism
John Médaille
Performance – The Wakefield Noah (Medieval Mystery Play)
Dinner – 8:00 P.M.
July 6 – Saturday
Breakfast
Lecture – 10:30 A.M.
The Secularization of the Religious Feast Through the Concepts of
Weekend and Leisure Time
Gregor Hochreiter
Traditional Mass – 12:15 P.M.
Lunch (on own)
Lectures – 5:00 P.M.
National Integrity, Its Limitations, & International Society
John Rao
Sociology and Psychology: The Importance of Two Disciplines
That Catholics Mistakenly Hate
John Rao
Vespers – 7:30 P.M.
Dinner – 8:00 P.M.
July 7 – Sunday
Traditional High Mass – 9:00 A.M.
Brunch at the Locanda agli Angeli – 10:45
Boat Trip on Lake Garda – 1:30—5:30 P.M.
Vespers – 7:30 P.M.
Dinner – 8:00 P.M.
Performance – Chorus of the Alpini of La Rocca
July 8 – Monday
Breakfast
Lecture – 10:30 A.M.
Modernism: The State of Mind of People Who Do Not Believe What They ‘Believe’
Thomas Stark
Traditional Mass – 12:15 P.M.
Lunch (on own)
Lectures – 5:00 P.M.
John Senior, Education, & Restoration of Simple Things
James Vogel
The Music of the Spheres versus the Music of Madness
John Rao
Vespers & Organ Concert – 7:00 P.M.
Dinner – 8:00 P.M.
July 9 – Tuesday
Free Day
Trips to Venice, Padua, or Other Sites in the Vicinity
Dinner – 9:00 P.M.
July 10 – Wednesday
Breakfast
Lecture – 10:30 A.M.
Capitalizing on Death: How the Media Justify Murder, Turn Grief Into a
Commodity, and Dehumanize Us All
Michael Matt
Traditional Mass – 12:15 P.M.
Lunch (on own)
Lecture – 5:30 P.M.
Modern Architecture: Dehumanizing the Physical World and Denying the Incarnation
John Rao
Vespers – 7:00 P.M.
Dinner – 8:00 P.M.
Performance – The Bald Soprano (Ionesco)
July 11 – Thursday
Breakfast
Lecture – 10:30 A.M.
The Significance of Regime Change: A Lesson From the Past Jacobite or Whig: King James II of England, Scotland and Ireland, Catholic monarch by the Grace of God or Prince William of Orange, Dutch Protestant usurper by invasion and the supreme will of Parliament?
James Bogle
Traditional Mass – 12:15 P.M.
Lunch (on own)
Lectures – 5:30 P.M.
Realistic Means of Survival in a Secularized Society
Msgr Barreiro
The Italian Opera dei Congressi: A Model for Contemporary Catholic Regime Change?
John Rao
Vespers – 7:30 P.M.
Dinner – 8:00 P.M.
July 12 – Friday
Departure – Time to Be Determined
