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 for both are available through the Roman Forum's website. Recordings of those and other lectures are available on Soundcloud and YouTube . Writings Books and longer pieces Books and longer pieces available online include: 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 “L’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 incomplete -- if 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 A Rebours , En Route , and Very Much On Target . J-K Huysmans and the Apostolate of the Outsiders ( The Angelus , January-February, 2020.) 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.) The Hudson River Valley, Washington Irving, and a Puritan-Free America ( The Angelus , December, 2018.) The City of Light under the Regime of Darkness: Historical Meditation on Current Events. ( Rorate Coeli , September 3, 2018.) World War One and the Russian Diaspora . The Westward Spread of Truths and Errors. ( The Angelus , March - April 2018.) The Renaissance of the Twelfth Century and Its Guardian Angels . Restoring all things in Christ, with a little help from your friends. ( The Angelus , January - February 2018.) Pious Mugging: Legitimate Authority, Arbitrary Power, and Protestantism . How sophists, thugs, and mystics colluded to abolish legitimate authority. ( The Angelus , November - December 2017.) Personal Reflections on a First Trip to Fatima . Why I (erroneously) put it off so long. ( The Angelus , September-October, 2017.) Braquemart and the Prince von Sunmyra . Two aspects of the Americanist problem. ( The Angelus , January, 2017.) See How Hopeless These Christians Are? ( The Angelus , November, 2016.) Corruption, Courage, and Constructive Rage . ( The Angelus , September, 2016.) Rediscovering the Obvious . Having Christ as king requires a Catholic social doctrine. ( The Angelus , July, 2016.) Fighting the Papal Fetish to Win Back the Papacy . The papacy is part of something bigger. ( The Remnant , September 26, 2016.) 2390 words. The United States, "the People", and Populism . (A Talk Presented in Spain, May, 2016.) 6631 words. Visions of Western and European Order: Highways From Christendom to Nowhere. (A Talk Presented in Mexico, April, 2016.) 8313 words. For Everything There is a Season : The Synod as optimal friend and miserable foe. ( The Angelus , March, 2016.) 2245 words. The Mystical Body of Christ is a Kingdom---Not a Road . Against the evaporation of social and ecclesial realities. ( The Remnant blog, January 27, 2016.) 1117 words. A Traditionalist New Year's Resolution . To be "Speakers of the Greatest Words and Doers of the Greatest Deeds" ( The Remnant , December 31, 2015.) 2133 words. A Very Different Francis on a Christmas Long Ago . A Brief Meditation on the Messages of the Creche and Modernity. ( The Remnant , December 15, 2015.) 2974 words. Half a Millennium of Total Depravity . 1516, Luther, and the imminent apotheosis of willful ignorance. (September, 2015.) 1435 words. Hail the Conquering Hero!! A willful America prepares to adulate a willful pope. (The Remnant, September 25, 2015.) Chartres, the Sacred Heart, and a League to Un-Locke America . (The Remnant website, June 15, 2015.) All Borrowed Armor Chokes Us? Americanism and Christian Democracy . (A chapter of a book on Christian Democracy and the Americas, to be published in Spain. April, 2015.) Monarchy as the Enemy of Oligarchy . (A talk delivered April 2015 in Spain, to be published in the Spanish magazine Verbo .) A View From Rocco's . A series from The Remnant : The End of History and the Reign of Francis . Can believers escape their country club existence? (March 15, 2015). Who are We to Judge Young, Exceptional Venetians? (April 30, 2014). What Goes Around Comes Around (January 31, 2014). Plus Ça Change… Good Old Advice for a Drab New Year (December 31, 2013). "When You Come to Serve the Lord, Prepare Yourself for Trial." (Sirach, 2,1). A Meditation on Three Troubled Christmas Seasons (December 25, 2013). Now, More than Ever, Every Man at His Post! (December, 2013). On Revolution, Globalism, Traditional Catholics, & the Roman Forum (February 28, 2010). Global upheavals, Americanism, and how to thread the needle. 2221 words. Professor Gradgrind's Magisterium & Recent Catholic Modernism (November 15, 2009). Giving Catholic economism the Dickens. 3277 words. Habemus Papam! (March 15, 2009). We've got the real thing now. 2447 words. George Weigel and "The Happening" (February 15, 2009). Trying to keep the Locke lock locked. 3357 words. The Advent of Their Discontent (January 2009, not published). As the worm turns. 3451 words. More of the Same? Or The Desert of the Tartars? (September 15, 2008). What is the winning strategy? 3269 words. Chartres, Dr. James Hitchcock & the Social Kingship of Christ (June 15, 2008). 4291 words. Gardone 2008 (April 15, 2008). Are beauty, camaraderie, and talk really expendable? 2381 words. The Libido for the Thesis and the Traditionalist Challenge (March 15, 2008). 3459 words. On Strength, Popes, and Holy Week Crises (February 15, 2008). 3942 words. This Too Shall Pass (December 31, 2007). 2758 words. A Post-Enlightenment Advent? (December 25, 2007). 3451 words. Is the Papacy in Turmoil? - Call in t...