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The Roman Forum
26th Annual New York City Church History Program
2017-2018

Revolution and Counterrevolution (1794-1846):
Catholic Revival & the Difficult Escape From the Naturalist Grip

Lecturer: John C. Rao, D. Phil. (Oxford University)
Associate Professor of History, St. John’s University

September 10: French Catholics Trapped Between Right & Left (1794-1799)
September 24: Europe & the Gospel of Revolutionary Liberty (1794-1799)
October 8: Pius VII & the Two Faces of the Napoleonic Settlement
(1799-1804)
October 22: Clerical-Lay Resilience, Romanticism, & Catholic Revival
(1794-1846): Part One
November 5: Clerical-Lay Resilience, Romanticism, & Catholic Revival
(1794-1846): Part Two
November 19: Traditionalism, Mysticism, & Dogmatic Muddle (1794-1846)
December 3: The Continued Strength of the Enlightenment and Reformed
Catholicism (1794-1846)
December 17: Tugging at the Chains: Napoleonic Europe & Catholic
Resistance (1804-1814/1815)
January 7: Joseph de Maistre & the Two Faces of the Restoration
(1814/1815-1830)
January 14: Legitimism & the Abbé de la Mennais (1815-1830)
January 28: Democratic Nationalism, Poland, & Palingenesis (1815-1830)
February 11: Lamennais & the Two Faces of Liberalism & Democracy
(1830-1846)
February 25: The Many & Varied Heirs of Lamennais (1830-1846)
March 11: Gregory XVI & the Catholic Revival (1830-1846)
March 25: Germany & Freedom of Association (1830-1846)
April 8: The Church, Education, & Liberal Regalism (1830-1846)
April 22: A Catholic Party? (1830-1846)
May 6: A Christ of the Barricades? (1830-1846)

All Sessions Meet on Sundays, at 2:30 P.M.
Wine & Cheese Reception. Entrance Fee at door of $15.00
Our Lady of Pompeii Church
Rectory Entrance, on Carmine Street, west of Church, on Bleecker Street
A, B, C, D, E, F, M trains to West 4th Street Station; 1 to Christopher Street