Bishop Williamson explains that there is a grave Crisis in the world, mentions that Summorum Pontificum should appear soon, as well as the lifting of the excommunications, and exhorts his listeners to study the encyclicals.
Bishop Williamson explains the sedevacantist logic, the nature of modernism, the war on prime principles, and the temptation for authority to take precedence over truth.
A tour de force of quintessential Williamson on the whole sweep of literature and the West, this final lecture of the three-part series on Eugene O’Neill serves equally well as both an introduction and recap of the entire series of literature seminars delivered at Winona. Surveying briefly the course of literature over the three millenia of Western history and its dissolution in modernism, modernity, and obsession with the material world, Bishop Williamson pinpoints the insights that literary works – both modern and classical – as well as history, philosophy, and a grand and global “geo-political&rdquo sense offer as to the predicament of man. For this conference His Excellency marshalls all the intellectual and spiritual resources at his command, alongside specific references to the works of Chaucer, Dickens, O’Neill, as well as contemporary political and historical events, to take his listeners through a rousing review of the eternal combat between “materialistic unreality” and the sane vision of nature crowned by grace.
Conference given to a group of seminarians at St. Thomas Aquinas Seminary in Winona, MN, exploring some of Beethoven’s works and situating Beethoven within the ideologies of his day. Also examines Aristotle’s view of the soul.
Bishop Williamson states that John Paul II has irreconcilable ideas in his mind, states the importance of Thomistic philosophy, mentions personalism, the paralysis of conservative Catholics, and states the proper understanding of papal infallibility.
Bishop Williamson gives a practical application of Catholic principles in today’s world, states that families do not have the help of communities that they once had, how boys must be taught by men, mentions Natural Family Planning, the importance of spending time with children and the role of the media in perpetuating lies.
