Roman Forum Announces its 31st Lecture Series

The Roman Forum

31^st Annual New York City Church History Program(2022-2023) 

The Center Cannot Hold:A “Hermeneutic of Continuity”? Or “the Opiate of the Church”? (1978-2013) 

Lecturer: John C. Rao, D. Phil. (Oxford University)Chairman, The Roman Forum

 September 11:  A Deeply Troubled Church in a Collapsing Postwar Order

September 25:  Here Today—Gone Tomorrow

October 9:        A Call for Help From “the Christ Among Nations”

October 16:      Affirming the Faith—While Dismantling the Temple

November 13:  Sailing to Byzantium on “the Opiate of the Popes”

November 20:  The End of Soviet Communism and the New Liberation Theologies:     Marxist, Neo-Liberal, and Neo-Conservative

December 11:   The New World Order on Steroids

December 18:   Our Future Lies in Our Past: Traditionalism—1978-1990s

January 8:         The Year 2000—Ecumenism and Millenarianism

January 22:       The Hermeneutici and the Conservative Dilemma

February 5:       The New World Order’s Culture of Death

February 12:     How Goes the Internal Mission?

February 26:     How Goes the External Mission?

March 5:           Habemus Papam!!

March 26:         Did You Ever See a Dream Walking?

April 2:             The Horror!! The Horror!!

April 16:           The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly

May 7:              My End is My Beginning                             

Sundays at 2:30 P.M, Most Holy Redeemer Church, East 3^rd Street Between Avenues A & B

Wine & Cheese Reception: $15.00 

N.B.— Audiotapes of all lectures will be posted on the Roman Forum Church History Lecture stream on SoundCloud.