Dr. John Rao lecture: “Even Now the Devastation Is Begun"

Dr. John Rao (shown in the video above reading the Lake Garda Statement) will be delivering the customary Roman Forum Lecture Series in New York this year. The Program will be as follows:The Roman Forum New York City Church History Program2016-2017“Even Now the Devastation Is Begun---And Half the Business of Destruction Done”(1748-1799)Lecturer: John C. Rao, D. Phil. (Oxford University)Associate Professor of History, St. John's UniversitySeptember 18:     The Last Pontificates & Princes of the Ancien RégimeOctober 2:            Learned Bishops, Continued Tridentine Vitality, & the         Second Spring of the Internal MissionsOctober 16:          Battening the Hatches: Montesquieu & the EncyclopediaOctober 23:          Battening the Hatches: No Enemies On the “Left”?November 6:         The Lisbon Earthquake & the Voltaire--Rousseau--Atheist--Christian Tsunami November 20:      Jesuits, Jansenists, & the Billets de Confession December 4:        Reform Catholicism & the “Regulated Devotion”December 18:      Religions of the Heart---Both Sacred & Profane January 15:          Prussia, Britain, & the Panic of the PotentatesJanuary 29:      The Via Crucis of the Russian Church (But Her Budding Mystical Revival)February 12:        Regalism in Portugal & Spain & the Anti-Jesuit Assault February 26:        The Missions Between Regalism & the Enlightenment March 5:             Intermezzo: The Strange But Temporary Death of the Society of Jesus March 19:     Febronianism, Josephism, & the Troubled Domestication of the Tridentine Germanic WorldApril 2:                Whither the Eldest Daughter of the Church? April 9:                A “Patriotic” French Church & Her Multiple DiscontentsApril 23:              The Center Cannot HoldMay 7:                    Terror and Catholic GenocideMay 21:               Can the “Infamous Thing” Be Really Dead?All Sessions Meet on Sundays, at 2:30 P.M.Wine & Cheese Reception. Entrance Fee at door of $15.00Our Lady of Pompeii ChurchRectory Entrance, on Carmine Street, west of Bleecker StreetA, B, C, D, E, F, M trains to West 4th Street Station

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