John C. Rao

John C. Rao obtained his doctorate in Modern European History from Oxford University in 1977. He worked in 1978–1979 as Eastern Director of the Intercollegiate Studies Institute in Bryn Mawr, PA, and was Associate Professor of European History at St. John’s University in New York City from 1979 to 2021. Dr. Rao is also director of the Roman Forum, a Catholic cultural organization founded by the late Professor Dietrich von Hildebrand in 1968. He writes for numerous French, German, Spanish and Italian journals. Perhaps the most important of his works are Americanism and the Collapse of the Church in the United States (Roman Forum Press, 1995), Black Legends and the Light of the World (Remnant Press, 2012), Removing the Blindfold (Angelus Press, 2014), a discussion of Catholics rediscovering their own heritage in the post-French revolutionary era, and A Centenary Meditation on a Quest for “Purification” Gone Mad (Arouca Press, 2019). He has also written a companion volume to his collected works, The Unrepentant Catholic's Cautionary Calendar (Arouca Press, 2022).