The Augustine Club Archives

Highlights of Previous Events

Chastity: Why & How: Dennis M. Helming; The Club's first lecture, now online!; WARNING: Dennis doesn't recoil from using baudy humor to make his points.
Twenty Hard Questions about Abortion Pro and Con,: Professor Michael Pakaluk
Does God Really Exist?: Fr. Robert Connor; The self, atheism, rationalism, empiricism, and God
Is There Sex in Heaven?: Peter Kreeft
Two sets of lecture notes:: The Psychology of Atheism; The Psychology of Atheism; Paul Vitz; Also, a commentary by Fr. Robert Connor
lecture notes on ``John Paul II on Sex: Friend or Foe?'': by Sim Johnston
The Liberalism of John Paul II, Fr. Richard John Neuhaus
lecture notes on Breast Cancer and Abortion: Compelling Evidence-- Official Denial: Dr. Joel Brind
If you are looking for a tape of the Scott Hahn's February 4, 1999 lecture, browse over to St. Joseph's Communications

Some Archived Documents

Here we have catalogued some of the documents in our archives. Feel free to roam the uncatalogued contents; you never know what sort of treasures you might unearth!

Barbet, Pierre: The Corporal Passion of Jesus Christ; This piece is intended to foster prayer and reflection on our Lord's Passion. We hope that the astounding detail of the these reflections of a surgeon on various data of the crucifixion will not revolt, but help to recall Jesus' enourmous love and sacrifice for us.
Bennett, William: Quantifying America's Decline; Includes figures showing how our nation has declined
Brandt, Steve: Steve Brandt's Theology Page; The Augustine Club is honored to be able to archive Steve's work defending basics of doctrine, such as the Trinity, the Divinity of Christ, and infant baptism
Chambers, Whittaker: Letter to My Children; A former Communist describes the battle in the human heart
Connor, Robert A.: Justice Scalia and Yogi Berra; A presentation of an epistemological solution to check judicial activism on the High Court. The consensus 'we hold these truths' arose from a consciousness deriving from the historical fact of Christian life. Personal dignity and human rights are pre-conceptual Christian truths deriving from a lived act of faith.
Devotions to the Blessed Virgin
de Vinck, Christopher: Oliver; The power of the powerless.
Florez, Joe: Learning to Love; A Guide on Sexuality for Young People
Frear, Sara: Lecture Notes; notes of sundry Catholic lectures around Manhattan, especially Columbia University
Ireneaus: Against Heresies
Jaki, Stanley L.: Science: From the Womb of Religion His Templeton Prize address.; The Absolute Beneath the Relative
John Paul II, Pope: Homily at Holy Mass in Cherry Creek State Park, Denver, Colorado, on the Feast of the Assumption, (August 15) 1993
The Holy Father calls upon the young people of the world to enter the struggle against the ``culture of death''. In imitation of the Blessed Virgin, the pilgrims must be at the service of life for the sake of all.; The Splendor of Truth (Veritatis Splendor)
The hypertext version of what is widely regarded as the most brilliant encyclical of a tour-de-force papacy was first presented on the web by Augustine Club.; Betrothed Love, selection from Love and Responsibility
Kierkegaard, Søren: Fear and Trembling: ``Eulogy on Abraham'' (selection)
Kelly, Gerald: Chastity: A Guide for Teens and Young Adults
Lewis, C.S.: The Abolition of Man; This book is usually out of print and it is so excellent that we couldn't resist posting it online
Mail the New York Times
Miller, Donald: Questions Young People Ask Before Marriage
Mother Teresa of Calcutta: Class Day Address at Harvard, June 8, 1982; If we pray and serve the poor, we will find God and happiness; Whatever You Did unto One of the Least, You Did unto Me; from the National Prayer Breakfast in Washington DC, 3 Feb 94; Why are we unhappy? It is because we do not know how to love, to give ourselves completely
Nathanson, Dr. Bernard: Deeper into Abortion
The initial stage of Dr. Nathanson's rethinking of the issue.
NARTH (National Association for Research and Therapy of Homosexuality, Inc.): Brief of Amicus Curiae on the adoption of children by homosexual couples
Newman, John Henry Cardinal: Mental Sufferings of Our Lord in His Passion; A meditation on our Lord's mental sufferings in His Passion.
Paul VI, Pope: Humanae Vitae [Postscript][PDF]
Percy, Walker: Selections
Rose, Eugene: Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
Sanger, Margaret [external]: The founder of Planned Parenthood was a vile racist and eugenicist. But don't take our word for it, read her works in full and judge for yourself.; Also Woman and the New Race [external]
Schindler, David L.: The Problem of Mechanism
Sheed, Frank: Freedom to Love; How are moral laws necessary for freedom? How is freedom necessary for love?
Solzhenitsyn, Alexander: Nobel Prize Acceptance Speech 1970; Live Not By Lies, February 12, 1974; Class Day Address at Harvard, June 8, 1978
Stanley, Bob: Bob Stanley's Apologetics; Bob's apologetics, archived here at the Augustine Club, give a thorough defense of the Blessed Virgin and show the inadequacy of Sola Scriptura.
Stenson, James: An Overview of the Virtues
Tierney, Richard H.; et al.: The Church and the Sex Problem

Last update: March 6, 2002