“For more than eight hundred years a shadow has lain across Russia and China – the shadow of Genghis Khan the Mongol conquer, who rode out of the steppes of central Asia with his ‘devil’s horsemen’ to fasten a yoke of tyranny on the neck of the of the Russian and Chinese people. Russia remained under that yoke for more than two centuries, and China suffers under it today. When Russia became the victim of Communist tyranny and threatened for most of the twentieth century to conquer the whole world, the heritage of Genghis Khan was realized in it."

“Her contemporaries uniformly and repeatedly testified to her extraordinary virtues, as have most historians since, Catholic or secular. Even those who vehemently disagree with some of her policies (such as her establishment of the Spanish Inquisition) cannot deny her spotless moral integrity, the harmony of her life with her faith, and the justice and benevolence of most of her rule.”

“So pervasive has the myth about Senator McCarthy become that I have had students from my alma mater college in Maine telephone me to interview me, as a man old enough to remember McCarthy’s day, to ask what it was like and to say how terrible it must have been to have lived in his time. They were astonished when I told them that everything was perfectly normal then and just like today.”

“The story of Prince Charles Edward Stuart and his attempt to regain the British throne of his fathers is one of the great romances of history – and it all actually happened." 

“This period as a whole is the most dramatic in the history of Christendom; it’s not surprising that Shakespeare lived during it,” Carroll quipped.

“John Schmitz was a true Catholic hero,’” Carroll said at the beginning of his lecture. “He was the bravest man I have ever known.”

The lecture was charged with intrepid statements on this turbulent period of Church History. 

“Though most Protestants today do not know it, the destruction of the Catholic Church was the declared objective of the first Protestants,’” Carroll said at the beginning of his lecture. “They were rebels, not reformers.”