Conferences for Study and Prayer

Conferences for Study and Prayer

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Conferences for Study and Prayer episodes

  • New World Order: A Society Without Christ | 23:5

    In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss one vision of the end of history that is completely secularized, which underlies a lot of what is happening in the world today, specifically in the political order, the social order, marriage and the family and scientism.

    55 min
  • The Social Kingship of Christ | 22:2

    In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the Social Kingship of Christ according to the Encyclical Quas Primas, and the traditional teaching of the Church.


    Pope Pius XI established the feast of Christ the King in 1925 to foster awareness of the social kingship of Christ and to combat the growing danger of the secularization of Western society, by which “individuals and states refused to submit to the rule of our Savior” (Quas Primas 1). 

    52 min
  • The Counter Reformation of Trent | 22:6

    In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the Council of Trent and Reform of the Church.

    A few years before Luther published his ninety-five theses, in the Fifth Lateran Council in 1512, one of the Fathers, Egidio da Viterbo, summed up the Catholic idea of reform : “Man must be changed by religion, not religion by man.” In other words, Catholic reform is instituted to help men to receive God’s transformative power into a deeper image and likeness of Him so as to enter into a deeper communion with Him in His Church. It is not changing the Church to make it fit secular man’s self-understanding.

    52 min
  • The Eve of the Reformation and Martin Luther | 21:1

    In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the Protestant Reformation for three purposes: 1) to better understand this fundamental historical event which affects us today in so many ways; 2) to better understand the Catholic doctrine that Luther and the other Reformers opposed; 3) we will look at the Reformation and the Catholic Counter-Reformation from the perspective of our own spiritual life, and our own situation today, marked by the “dictatorship of relativism.” This should be useful for us today in understanding how we got to where we are, what we must avoid, and for suggesting remedies.

    47 min
  • Justification by Faith Alone | 21:2

    In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the belief of Justification by faith alone. 

    Luther’s pessimism involved the denial of free will, which goes against all human experience, as well as all of Christian ethics. Luther supported his position by understanding original sin as the total corruption of human nature, such that we are no longer able to perform morally good acts or resist temptation. The Catholic understanding of original sin is that, as a result of the Fall, Adam lost for us sanctifying grace, as well as the four preternatural gifts: immortality, immunity from suffering, infused knowledge, and the gift of integrity (the submission of our sense appetites to our reason). However, human nature is not completely corrupted by the Fall, nor is free will lost. 

    55 min

About Conferences for Study and Prayer

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The Conferences for Study and Prayer (CSP) are organized by the Religious Order Miles Christi. These conferences are aimed specifically at helping the intellectual and spiritual formation of the faithful. This podcast is a compilation of the talks given at these conferences starting in 2002.