Institute of Catholic Culture

This course will explore how the seven major feasts of the Old Testament calendar prefigure and point to the Sacraments of the New Testament and how the salvific work of Jesus is richly and beautifully embedded in the Old Testament cycle of Holy Days.

3,500 years ago, God freed his people from slavery in Egypt, but sadly, the journey became a 40 year pilgrimage of repentance. Join Fr. David Anderson as we seek to gain spiritual insight for our own lives from the lessons learned so long ago.

This talk will look at the nature of human dominion and work, the roles of tilling and keeping, and the importance of sacrifice in directing all things to their purpose in God.

Nowadays there are “new things” to address, and a new Leo in the papacy, but the timeless truths of Catholic Social Doctrine continue to inform the Church’s response to modern social questions.

Join the ICC to hear the compelling stories of the modern martyrs of Africa, Egypt, and the Middle East, and be inspired in our own lives by their heroic witness of faith.

In this lecture, Fr. Michael Ward surveys Lewis’s various approaches to war: the ways he found to cope with it and learn from it, and the virtues and vices that he thought it tended to prompt.

What does it really mean for liturgical change to be "organic"? Join Gregory DiPippo as he unpacks this widely-used but controversial term in liturgical reform.

These lectures will explore two Arthurian romances, Chretien de Troyes' Knight of the Cart, and the Cistercian text we know as The Quest of the Holy Grail, through the lens of Catholic teaching on redemption, divine grace, and the pursuit of virtue.

Catholic teaching takes a distinctive stance compared to Protestant views on human nature and divine grace. We examine the realism which undergirds the Catholic view of nature and grace and show why Protestant errors are both philosophical and theological

Mozarabic? Braga? Ambrosian? Catholics are familiar with the Roman Catholic Mass in its traditional form and that of the "Novus Ordo," but many do not realize the liturgical diversity that once existed throughout the Western Church.