Conferences for Study and Prayer

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how Luther denied not one particular doctrine, but the very basis of the Church’s faith: the infallibility of the universal Church and her Magisterium. 

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how the one thing uniting the Protestants with respect to the Eucharist was their vehement rejection of transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the Mass. This means that all the Protestants were united only in this: in thinking that the substance of the bread and the wine continue to exist on the altar after the consecration has been performed.

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how Luther’s denial of transubstantiation and the sacrifice of the Mass, was linked to his rejection of the sacrament of Holy Orders. In its place he recognized only a priesthood of the faithful, in which the priest or pastor is not marked by a supernatural priestly character, but simply fulfills a certain function in the Church: preaching and presiding, for which no special hierarchical mission is needed. 

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how out of the catastrophe of the Protestant rebellion, a purification and true reformation emerged in the Catholic Church. This period of Catholic reform manifested itself in an elevation of Catholic life affecting the episcopacy, the religious orders, the formation of the clergy, the missions, the laity, culture and education. The key moment in this purification was the Council of Trent.

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the primary factor in the evangelization of Mexico was the extraordinary intervention of Mary who appeared to Juan Diego. This apparition is perhaps the most significant event in the history of the Americas, and certainly of the Church in America.

In this talk, Dr. Robert Fastiggi will discuss how many people in the USA have the mistaken impression that Christianity was first brought to the American shores by the Pilgrims at Plymouth Rock in 1620. The truth, however, is that Spanish and French Catholic missionaries brought the Gospel to what is today the USA prior to the arrival of the English Protestant Christians.

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how, in addition to the work of evangelization of the Spanish missionaries from the south, the North America received the Catholic faith from the north through the French missionaries in New France. Of special importance were the Jesuit missionaries, who first arrived in 1625. Their mysticism and spirituality was that of the Cross, which they were called to bear in an extraordinary way. 

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss how the Jesuit missionaries in the early 19th century were the first to enter the Northwest region, just as Catholics had been the first to evangelize the other three quarters of America. Fr. Peter John de Smet was the greatest of these Northwest missionaries. 

In this talk, Dr. Robert Fastiggi will discuss the immigration, persecution, growth and ferment of Catholics in the history of the United States of America.

In this talk, Dr. Lawrence Feingold will discuss the modern challenges in the Church in America.