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.

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All Lecture Series Topics (1992–Present)

(2019–2020) Les Jeux Sont Faits: Gambling & Pulling up Stakes in the Den of Modernity, 1878–1914

(2018–2019) The Pontificate of Blessed Pio Nono: Catholic Renewal and the Discovery of the Frauds of Modernity, 1846-1878

(2017–2018) Revolution and Counterrevolution: Catholic Revival & the Difficult Escape from the Naturalist Grip, 1794-1846

(2016–2017) Even Now the Devastation Is Begun: …and Half the Business of Destruction Done, 1748-1799

(2015–2016) Splendors and Miseries of the Tridentine Life: The High Baroque and the Architects of Demolition, 1689-1748

(2014–2015) War in Heaven and the City of Man: Laying the Groundwork for a Garden of Earthly Delights, 1629-1689

(2013–2014) Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam: Sanctifying, Expanding & Defending the Meaning of Catholic Christendom

(2012–2013) The Tyranny of Words — Or the Triumph of the Word?: Two Conflicting Visions of the Meaning of the Incarnation (1517–1563)

(2011–2012) Fervent Catholics on a Ship of Fools: From the Fall of Constantinople to the Reuchlinstreit (1453–1517)

(2010–2011) Division, Despair & the Torturous Road to Recovery: From the Western Schism to the Fall of Constantinople (1378–1453)

(2009–2010) Counterattack! Primal Assaults on the Medieval Catholic Synthesis (1270–1378)

(2008–2009) “When Values Descended Upon the Earth” Transformation in Christ and the Birth of the Lay Spirit (1153–1268)

(2007–2008) “Binding the Rhinoceros”: Medieval Catholic Reform and the Taming of Nature (1025–1153)