jcrao.freeshell.orgFor the Whole Christ: Writings by Dr. John C. Rao

For the Whole Christ Writings by Dr. John C. Rao About Dr. Rao Dr. John C. Rao, D. Phil. Oxon., is Associate Professor of History at St. John’s University and Director of the Roman Forum (also see the Roman Forum Facebook page ). A well-regarded speaker as well as writer, Dr. Rao presents lecture series on Church history in New York and as part of the Roman Forum’s Summer Symposium at Lake Garda in Italy. Applications are available through the Roman Forum’s website. (Because of travel restrictions, the 2021 Summer Symposium was held on Long Island.) Recordings of those and other lectures are available on Soundcloud and YouTube . Videos from the 2021 Summer Symposium are available at Remnant TV Writings Books and longer pieces Books and longer pieces available online include: "The Complex Ultramontanist Fountain From Which Moreno Drank" , a chapter in Gabriel Garcia Moreno, el estadista y el hombre: Reflexiones en el bicentenario de su nacimiento (Madrid, 2023) Truth, Custom, Trent, Baroque Culture, and Spain ( Verbo : Madrid, LIX, 597-598, agosto-septiembre-octubre, 2021). The Roman Question: A Tale of Two Syllabi ( Verbo : Madrid, LVIII, November-December 2021). A Centenary Meditation on a Quest for "Purification" Gone Mad (Gardone Lectures, July 2018) . (Arouca Press, 2019). The Political Culture of American Catholics from the Twentieth to the Twenty-First Centuries ( Verbo : Madrid, LVI, 568-569, August-October 2018). He Who Loses the Past, Loses the Present: Putting Dignitatis Humanae in its Full Historical Context (Norcia Conference on Dignitatis Humanae , October, 2015). 17,512 words. Black Legends and the Light of the World: The War of Words with the Incarnate Word (The Remnant Press, 2011). It’s very long (350,000 words), so you might prefer the free pdf or epub , or the paperback available from the publisher . Periphery . One man against pluralism: a novel of rage and reason. (Note: it deals with present-day life in New York and so includes coarse language.) It too is long, so you might prefer to read the epub . 262,076 words. Americanism and the Collapse of the Church in the United States (Remnant Press, 1984; Updated, Tan Books, 1995. Also published as “americanismo e la crisi della chiesa negli Stati Uniti”, Contrarivoluzione (Florence, July-October, 1991, pp. 16-20; March-June, 1992, pp. 15-20). The illusions of pluralism, Catholicism and American patriotism. 15,293 words. Secular Italy and Catholicism: 1848-1915 (A chapter in Models and Images of Catholicism in Italian and Italian American Life Forum Italicum of the Center for Italian Studies at S.U.N.Y. Stony Brook, 2004, pp. 195-230). Liberalism, nationalism, socialism and the romantic idealist temptation. 14,424 words. The Black Legends and the Timeless Drama of Truth (A Series of Essays Based on the Gardone Lectures, 1993-2004). 13,171 words. Portugal, Austria and Catholic Counterrevolution in Interwar Europe (Faith and Reason, Spring, 1985, pp. 1-25). 10,603 words. Louis Veuillot and Catholic “Intransigence”: A Re-Evaluation (Faith and Reason, Winter, 1983, pp. 282-306). 10,247 words. The Unrepentant Catholic’s Cautionary Calendar . Extensive but incompleteif you’ve got a date to add, send it in! 25,227 words. Books in print include Removing the Blindfold: 19th Century Catholics and the Myth of Modern Freedom (Angelus Press). Shorter pieces The King is Dead. Long Live the King! . Kulaks, Stay Alert! ( The Remnant website, February 6, 2023.) The Splendors and Miseries of the Iberian Missions . ( The Angelus , November 2023.) From Cite Catholique to Mental Asylum . What Does an Auxiliary Do When the "Seeds of the Logos" Dry up? (Verbo, August, September, October 2023 Numero 617-618.) The Drama of Truth and Jesuit Theatre . (Unpublished, 2023.) Thanks to the FBI, Catholics discover their role in resistance . ( Daily Compass , February 18, 2023.) A Blessing on the Via del Moro; A Scandal at St. Peter’s . ( The Remant Blog , January 9, 2023.) A Letter From Rocco’s . A series: 2023 and the Flight From Periphery . ( La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana , December 31, 2022.) Joy to the World? Christmas, 2022 . ( The Remnant Blog , December 24, 2022.) A Stupid Nineteenth Century? ( The Angelus , November, 2022.) Mar-a-Lago and the End of a System Doomed From Birth . ( La Nuova Bussola Quotidiana , November 8, 2022.) Catholicism, the American Imagination, and the Pluralist Beast . ( The Angelus , May-June, 2022.) What a Woman Must Do: The Feminine Mystique Versus the Brigades of St. Joan of Arc . Look within or look above? Lessons from Mexico. ( The Angelus , September, 2021.) Gerusalemme Liberata? Choppy water in Palestine after the Turks departed. ( The Angelus , July, 2021.) Gangster Society, Gangster State, Gangster Church . Modernity is now coming fully to fruition! ( The Angelus , May-June, 2021) Tough Environments Breed Militant Catholics . Protestant Secularist Australia and "Bob" Santamaria ( The Angelus , March, 2021) Demolishing Thor’s Oak: An Early Medieval Model for Modern Catholic "Iconoclasm" . ( The Angelus , January-February, 2021) War in Hell . A series. III. "Wollt Ihr den Totalen Krieg?" . ( The Remnant , April 15, 2021.) II: The Last Hill . ( The Remnant website, December 14, 2020.) I: Blitzkrieg and the Book of Esther . ( The Remnant website, November 14, 2020.) Letters From Hell . A series. VI. Por Dios, Por la Patria, y el Rey! Lessons from the Spanish Civil War for the unmasking of Americans. ( The Remnant website, October 6, 2020.) V. The Real Medical Problem: The Voting Power of the Lobotomites . ( The Remnant website, September 28, 2020.) IV. The Final Solution to "The Catholic Question" . ( The Remnant , September 30, 2020.) III. Modern Freedom, Criminal Ignorance, and Diabolical Wisdom . ( The Remnant , August 19, 2020.) II. Who’s on First? . ( The Remnant , July 29, 2020.) I. They Die and Yet They Smile . Le Sillon, Modernism, and Catholicism as Democracy . ( The Angelus , September, 2020) Vital Error: Energy, Personalism, Pluralism, and the Triumph of the Will . The origins of the Church of What’s Happening Now. ( The Josias , July 7, 2020) Snatching Defeat From Victory . Chalk up another one for the Conciliar Church ( Rorate Caeli , June 29, 2020.) New Normal, Old Normal, and the Living Dead . ( The Remnant , June 5, 2020.) Now or Never: A Plea for Concerted Traditionalist Action . ( The Remnant , May 28, 2020.) Committing Suicide in the War of All Against All: A Brief, Disjointed Addendum to My Previous Remarks . More on the letter to the friends of the Roman Forum. (May 12, 2020.) The More the Panic Grows: A Letter to the Friends of the Roman Forum . Panic, cowardice, and overreach in the Age of the Virus. (May, 2020.) India: Is It the Graveyard of the Naturalist Enlightenment and Pluralism? ( The Angelus , March-April, 2020.) Not at All What A Vain Modernity Thinks . Transformation in Christ and Nineteenth Century Spirituality ( The Angelus , March-April, 2020.) A Rebours , En Route , and Very Much On Target . J-K Huysmans and the Apostolate of the Outsiders ( The Angelus , January-February, 2020.) The Legal Regulation of Transhumanist Enhancements . What happens to our humanity when we’re integrated into The Grid? (From Transhumanismo o posthumanidad?: La politica y el derecho despues del humanismo , Miguel Ayuso, Ed. (Marciel Pons, Editiones Juridicas y Sociales, 2019). Anti-Modernity in the United States: A Tale of Self-Deception and Voices Crying in the Wilderness . How do you revolt against the modern world in the Novus Ordo Seclorum ? ( Verbo , Madrid, 2019). The First and Only Church of Christ the Scientist ( The Angelus , September, 2019.) Keeping the Home Fires Burning ( The Angelus , July, 2019.) Dealing with Clerical Scandal: It Takes a Christendom ( The Angelus , May/June, 2019.) Eastern Marian Apparitions, Orthodoxy”, and the West ( The Angelus , March/April, 2019.) Good Bishops, Court Bishops, and Modern Regalism ( The Angelus , January, 2019.)...