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John Klink recounts some of the intriguing stories of his unique life of faith-based humanitarian service, diplomacy, finance, and politics which he attributes to gifts of Divine Providence that he would like to pass as a baton to future generations.
The grandson of 19th-century emigrant pioneers from the Kingdom of Württemberg and Ireland, he was born on October 8, 1949, on one of Wyoming’s oldest ranches. His paternal German grandfather’s Flag Ranch near Laramie hosted three U.S. Presidents and served as the departure point for Teddy Roosevelt’s famous 60 mi. compulsory horseback ride to Cheyenne with his Cabinet, while his maternal Irish family’s scion served as the first foreign-born U.S. Senator from Wyoming, and a pallbearer for his close friend Buffalo Bill. Following his father’s sales of the family ranches that ran from southern Wyoming to northern Colorado in 1952, his father made a precipitous move to a Bernard Maybeck home in Montecito near Santa Barbara which greatly influenced his love for architecture, art and music.
This move at a young age saw him growing up as a neighbor and friend to many luminaries of Hollywood, industry, and royalty where he says he felt strong similarities with the Beverly Hillbillies, but his family was steadied by his mother’s deep faith-life. During, and following a Jesuit education at Santa Clara University, Georgetown, and Loyola University in Rome, which sparked a lifelong devotion for the poor and refugees, he joined CRS, the Catholic equivalent of the Peace Corps, and served in North Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Caribbean. This led to postings in some of the poorest countries of the world, collaborating with St. Mother Theresa of Calcutta, and being Director of a refuge Program in Thailand charged with the care of 400,000 traumatized Khmer during the Cambodian Crisis.
He was then recruited by the Vatican, and subsequently the White House, to serve as a diplomat/negotiator for scores of United Nations World Summits and Conferences during the critical period of the fall of the Soviet Union and the rise of the European Union, became an advisor to Popes and Presidents, was elected President of the International Catholic Migration Commission, and with his wife Patricia began a sovereign securities firm on Wall Street.
John is quick to note that his fascinating, and at times highly challenging, experiences had little to do with his personal talents, but to his willingness to make himself available to Divine Providence without which he would have been a dusty but happy sheepherder on the Wyoming prairie to this day and sadly would probably not have met his beautiful wife with whom he recently celebrated their 37th anniversary in their home in Umbria.
Honors: Knight Commander of the Order of St. Gregory the Great, Knight of the Sovereign Military Order of Malta, Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem, Knight of the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George, Knight of Columbus (3rd Degree), and a Knight of Sts. Maurice and Lazarus. Royal Thai Armed Forces Award for Humanitarian Assistance to Displaced Persons in Thailand; 41st CRS Anniversary Award for Humanitarian Assistance; Legatus Ambassador Award.
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In Crucified Love: Littleness, Spousal Love, and Fiat as Instruments Jesus Used in Enduring the Cross, Dr. Mary Elizabeth Kloska explores the theology of “crucified love,” focusing on humility, spousal love, and complete surrender (fiat) as key virtues. Through Jesus’ example of sacrificial love, she examines how the Virgin Mary and the saints emulate these virtues, emphasizing their transformative power for uniting with Christ in redemptive suffering. Kloska presents littleness and love as pathways to sanctity, inspiring Christians to embrace Christ-like humility and love through the Cross.
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“With Marian wisdom drawn from some of the most powerful theological sources of our tradition, Dr. Kloska opens up a contemplation of the great mystery with fresh feminine genius. The fruit of her many years of faithful and adventurous dedication to the Lord come through these pages to stir wonder and gratitude toward God for the gift of virginity in the Church.” – Dr. Anthony Lilles, Academic Dean, Professor of Spiritual Theology, St. Patrick’s Seminary, Menlo Park, CA
“So beautiful! Might even become Mary Kloska’s masterpiece!” – Ronda Chervin, Ph.D., Catholic professor, author and presenter
Dr. Mary Kloska, Th.D., is from Elkhart, Indiana. She was raised in a huge Polish family (12 brothers and sisters) along with a lot of foster babies and other needy people in and out of the house. She presently has 70+ nieces and nephews. She has lived a very unique life. Upon graduating from Notre Dame in 1999 she spent almost 20 years in the missions serving the poor (including orphanages) as well as praying as a consecrated hermit all over the world –Siberia, Nigeria, Tanzania, South Africa, Philippines, Mexico, the Holy Land and all over Europe as well. Although she spent a lot of time away in silence praying, ironically she loves children and is very fun and outgoing when it comes to serving young adults, as well as the little ones. She also spent her time in the missions giving retreats, doing simple catechesis, leading prayer groups, giving spiritual direction, helping in deliverance, changing diapers, feeding babies and cleaning floors. After spending intense time serving in a mission she would withdraw for periods of ‘retreat’ as a hermit (including three years as an official diocesan hermit with vows under a Bishop.) The last few years she has spent as a fulltime nanny to infant triplets, twins and several large families. She speaks many languages (poorly) and enjoys playing guitar, painting icons, baking, gardening, reading, writing and simply filling in where there is the greatest need in the Church. Her WCAT Radio program, “The Heart of Fiat Crucified Love,” may be found here.
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Guidance about the Transgender Question: A Discussion with Theresa Farnan, Robert L. Fastiggi, Susan Selner-Wright, hosted by Krzysztof Odyniec. Click here for more.
This book has been designed to assist Catholics doing pastoral work and ministering to children and families caught up in a destructive ideology. Questions the editors of this volume and many of the contributors to it have heard most often and have been fielding for over a decade as they have worked with dioceses, parishes, and families include the following:
In addressing questions such as these, the contributors seek to prepare clergy and lay pastoral ministers to understand and be responsive to the issues that arise in a parish or parochial school setting when someone asserts a “gender identity” that does not align with his or her bodily sex.
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Etheredge, Francis. “Briefly Reviewed: December 2024,” New Oxford Review (December 19, 2024). Click here to read the article.
Dorweiler, Karla, “Speaker encourages parents, lay leaders navigating challenges of gender ideology,” Detroit Catholic (November 12, 2024). Click here to read the article.
Etheredge, Francis, “We must fight gender ideology to preserve the concept of truth,” LifeSite News (October 25, 2024). Click here to read the review.
Mirus, Jeff, “Three blockbuster books on our contemporary gender crisis,” Catholic Culture (October 2, 2024). Click here to read the review.
Knuffke, Louis, “How to Navigate Gender Ideology?: Catholic Experts Respond in a New Book,” Catholic Vote (September 25, 2024). Click here to read the review.
“This book assembles all the evidence for us to realize, inexorably, that gender ideology is not a random accumulation of acts but a strategy to bring about a disordering domination of society. All in all a must and well-rounded read!” – Francis Etheredge, author of The Human Person: A Bioethical Word
is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center focusing on the challenges of gender ideology as part of EPPC’s Person and Identity Project. She is the co-author of two books, Get Out Now: Why You Should Pull Your Child from Public School Before It’s Too Late and Where Did I Come From? Where Am I Going? How Do I Get There? She has taught at St. Paul Seminary in Pittsburgh, Franciscan University of Steubenville, and Mount St. Mary’s Seminary and has worked with the diaconate formation program for the Dioceses of Harrisburg and Pittsburgh. She served as a consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family Life, and Youth and is a member of the Catholic Women’s Forum Advisory Council. She serves on the Ethics and Public Policy Committee of the National Catholic Partnership on Disability. She has lectured widely on gender ideology, Catholic education, theology of the body, the personalism of Pope John Paul II, the philosophy of St. Thomas Aquinas, and the vocation and dignity of women. She hosted St. Thomas Aquinas in Today’s World on the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN). She received her master’s degree and her doctorate in Medieval Studies from the University of Notre Dame.
having taught philosophy to undergraduates and Catholic seminarians since 1985, recently retired from St. John Vianney Theological Seminary where she held the Archbishop Chaput Chair in Philosophy. In 2017, Dr. Selner-Wright organized the first national conference for diocesan personnel on the Catholic response to gender ideology and she has worked with the Ethics and Public Policy Center’s Person and Identity Project (PIP) since its inception. Several of her presentations concerning the Catholic vision of the human person and the current debates about “gender identity” are freely available on the PIP website: personandidentity.com.
is a professor of dogmatic theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit where he has taught since 1999. Previously, he taught at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas (1985–1999). He has authored 3 books; co-authored 2 others; and edited or co-edited 12 others. He is a member of the Mariological Society of America, the International Marian Association, and the Pontifical International Marian Academy.
Dr. Jane Adolphe – Ave Maria Law School
is a Professor of Law at Ave Maria School of Law (AMSL), in Naples, Florida (2001 – present), and an Adjunct Professor of the University of Notre Dame, School of Law, Sydney. Adolphe is a civil lawyer holding degrees in common law and civil law (B.C.L./LL.B) from McGill University and is qualified to practice law in the State of New York and the Province of Alberta. She holds a doctorate in canon law (J.C.L./J.C.D.) from the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross, in Rome, Italy. She has worked as an external and internal legal advisor for the Holy See, Secretariat, Section for Relations with States, and writes in the area of international law and the Holy See.
Fr. Dennis Billy, C.Ss.R. (D.Min., Th.D., S.T.D.) – St. Mary’s Seminary & University
holds The Robert F. Leavitt Distinguished Service Chair in Theology and is Professor of Moral Theology and Spirituality at St. Mary’s Seminary & University. Father Billy has authored more than 50 books and published over 400 articles in a variety of scholarly and popular journals. He is also very active in retreat work and in the ministry of spiritual direction. Fr. Billy is an advisor to the Board of Directors at Notre Dame Retreat House in Canandaigua, NY. In 2017, he was awarded a three-year grant by the Templeton World Charity Foundation to develop a program on the topic “Spiritual Direction and the Moral Life.”
John Bursch, J.D. – Alliance Defending Freedom
is a senior counsel and vice president of appellate advocacy with Alliance Defending Freedom. He received his J.D. magna cum laude in 1997 from the University of Minnesota Law School. Prior to that, he attended Western Michigan University, where he received degrees in mathematics and music performance summa cum laude. Bursch has argued 12 U.S. Supreme Court cases and three dozen state Supreme Court cases, and he has successfully litigated six matters with at least $1 billion at stake. A recent study concluded that among all frequent Supreme Court advocates who did not work for the federal government, he had the 3rd highest success rate for persuading justices to adopt his legal position.
Perry J. Cahall, Ph.D. – Pontifical College Josephinum
is a professor of Historical Theology at the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, OH, where he has been teaching since 2005. Since 2011, he has also served as Academic Dean of the School of Theology at the Josephinum. Dr. Cahall has published articles, essays, and reviews in numerous scholarly journals and publications as well as two books on the theology of marriage: The Mystery of Marriage: A Theology of the Body and the Sacrament (2016) and Living the Mystery of Marriage: Building Your Sacramental Life Together (2020).
Dr. Emily Dowdell, Psy.D. – Ruah Woods Institute
practices psychology at Ruah Woods Institute, a Theology of the Body ministry in Cincinnati, OH. She earned her Masters and Doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from Divine Mercy University. She previously studied theology and philosophy while obtaining a bachelor’s degree in Multimedia Communications from Franciscan University. Dr. Dowdell specializes in depth-oriented, exploratory psychotherapy and in psychological evaluation, especially for individuals applying for entrance to seminary or religious life. She is an active member of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association and its Special Interest Group for Seminary Assessment and Therapy and is a member of Therapy First.
Fr. Scott Giuliani – Diocese of Belize City-Belmopan
a member of the Society of our Lady of the Most Holy Trinity (S.O.L.T.), studied theology in Rome at the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum). He has served Belize for over 10 years and currently serves at Divine Mercy Catholic Church in Belize City. He was the chair of the Diocese Catholic Synod Team for the local consultations and is currently the chair of the Roman Catholic Constitution Commission (RCCC). As an appointed representative member of an ecumenical organization, known as the Belize Council of Churches, he helps to coordinate the Belize Chaplin Services. He is a consultant for the Minister of Religious Affairs in Belize, among other Church Leaders.
Fr. Carter Griffin, S.T.D. – St. John Paul II Seminary
is a priest of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC. In 2011 he was appointed Director of Priest Vocations for the Archdiocese of Washington and Vice-Rector of St. John Paul II Seminary, where he now serves as Rector. He is the author of Why Celibacy: Reclaiming the Fatherhood of the Priest, Cross-Examined: Catholic Responses to the World’s Questions, and Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest, all published by Emmaus Road Publishing.
Mary Rice Hasson, J.D. – Ethics and Public Policy Center
is the Kate O’Beirne Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., where she co-founded and directs the Person and Identity Project, an initiative that equips parents and faith-based institutions to promote the truth about the human person and counter gender ideology. An attorney and policy expert, Mary has been a keynote speaker for the Holy See during the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, addressing education, women and work, caregiving, and gender ideology, and serves as a consultant to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Committee on Laity, Marriage, Family, Life and Youth. She speaks frequently at national conferences, universities, and in dioceses across the country, and has testified before the U.S. Senate, state legislatures, and the Australian parliament on parents’ rights and transgender issues. The co-author of several books on education, Mary’s writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, National Review, First Things, the National Catholic Register and Our Sunday Visitor, among others. She was honored by the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in 2023, and the Napa Institute in 2024, for promoting the truth with charity and courage. Mary is a graduate of the University of Notre Dame and Notre Dame Law School.
Paul W. Hruz, M.D., Ph.D. – Archdiocese of St. Louis
is an academic pediatric endocrinologist (hormone specialist) and tenured physician scientist with faculty appointments in both Pediatrics and Cellular Biology and Physiology. He received his M.D. and Ph.D. degrees from the Medical College of Wisconsin. He completed residency training in Pediatrics at the University of Washington in Seattle and fellowship training in pediatric endocrinology at Washington University in St Louis. He has served as a consultant for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops and the National Catholic Bioethics Center. He has authored over 65 peer-reviewed manuscripts, scientific reviews, and book chapters.
Dcn. Patrick W. Lappert, M.D. – Diocese of Birmingham, Alabama
is a Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon who has been in practice for over 30 years. He was the Chief of Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery at the Portsmouth Naval Hospital, and the Reconstructive Surgery Specialty Leader for the Surgeon General, USN. He founded the Pediatric Cranio-facial Reconstructive Surgery Unit, and the Wound Care Center for the largest military hospital in the world. Dr. Lappert grew up in a Jewish home, but spent most of his life as an atheist. At the age of 40 he converted, and has gone on to be ordained a deacon in the Catholic Church, serving and preaching at his church in Decatur, Alabama.
Fr. Piotr Mazurkiewicz – Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University
is a Catholic priest of the Archdiocese of Warsaw, a professor of political science and Catholic social teaching, Head of the Chair of Political Theory and Political Thought at the Institute of Political Science and Public Administration of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. He is the Former Secretary General of the Commission of Bishops of the European Community COMECE. His main research topics are philosophy of politics, political ethics, Catholic social teaching, European integration, religious freedom, and religion in public life.
Frank J. Moncher, Ph.D. – Diocese of Arlington
received his Ph.D. in Clinical-Community Psychology from the University of South Carolina in 1992 and was on faculty at the Medical College of Georgia from 1993-1999. From 2000-2010 he taught at the Institute for the Psychological Sciences/Divine Mercy University, before becoming employed at the Catholic Diocese of Arlington, where he consults with Catholic Charities, the Tribunal, the Victim Assistance office, the Office of Catholic Schools, among other ministries. Over the past 20 years, he has also provided psychological evaluations for candidates for the priesthood and religious life for several Orders. He is licensed as a clinical psychologist in Virginia and Washington D.C.
Fr. Peter F. Ryan, S.J., S.T.D. – Sacred Heart Major Seminary
is the Blessed Michael J. McGivney Chair in Life Ethics at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in the Archdiocese of Detroit, where he teaches moral theology and eschatology and gives spiritual direction. He is also the chaplain of Courage Detroit. A priest of the USA East Province of the Society of Jesus, Fr. Ryan was ordained in 1987 and holds a doctorate in moral theology from the Gregorian University in Rome. He previously served as executive director of the Secretariat of Doctrine and Canonical Affairs of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is presently working on a book on eschatology.
Fr. Kyle Schnippel – Courage International
was ordained to the Priesthood for the Archdiocese of Cincinnati in 2004 and served as a high school religion teacher and Director of Vocations for the Archdiocese. Upon leaving the Vocation Office to assume the role of Pastor, Father was asked to begin a chapter of Courage in the Archdiocese, a position which fundamentally changed his priesthood. He is blessed to serve on the Executive Board for Courage and to continue to work in this ministry. He is also a pastor of the St. Gabriel the Archangel Family of Parishes.
Andrew Sodergren, Psy.D. – Ruah Woods Institute
is a Catholic psychologist and Director of Psychological Services for Ruah Woods Institute, a Theology of the Body ministry in Cincinnati, OH. Dr. Sodergren earned his Masters and Doctoral degrees in clinical psychology from Divine Mercy University. Dr. Sodergren also holds a Masters degree in theology from the John Paul II Institute for Studies on Marriage and Family where he went on to teach as an Adjunct Professor for 13 years. He is an active member of the Catholic Psychotherapy Association from which he received the Our Lady of Good Counsel Clinical Excellence Award in 2023.
Fr. Francis Tiso, Ph.D. – Diocese of Isernia-Venafro, Italy
holds a doctorate from Columbia University and Union Theological Seminary where his specialization was Buddhist studies. He served as Associate Director of the Secretariat for Ecumenical and Interreligious Affairs of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops from 2004 to 2009. Father Tiso is a priest of the Diocese of Isernia-Venafro, Italy, where he now serves as chaplain to the migrant communities in the Province of Isernia and, as canon in the cathedral, and as Diocesan Delegate for Ecumenical and Inter-religious Affairs.
Michael Trueman, M.Div., J.C.L. – Archdiocese of Detroit
began working with the Metropolitan Tribunal of the Archdiocese of Detroit in 2000, first as a Defender of the Bond and then as Ecclesiastical Judge. Since 2009, he has served as Chancellor and Director of Canonical Services of the Archdiocese of Detroit. He is an adjunct professor of canon law for Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, and has co-authored two books Surprised by Canon Law, Vols. 1 and 2. Likening himself as a “blue-collar canonist,” most of his canon law work is in executive governance, which demands a broad knowledge and application of the canonical system.
Joe Zalot, Ph.D. – National Catholic Bioethics Center
joined The National Catholic Bioethics Center in 2017 and was named Director of Education in 2023. He oversees the NCBC Certification Program, and other educational offerings, produces and hosts the NCBC’s Bioethics on Air podcast, and responds to approximately four hundred ethics consultations per year. He also lectures for the NCBC and has authored multiple statements, guides, and book chapters for NCBC publications. Joe earned a Ph.D. from Marquette University in 2002, an MEd from Boston College in 1997, an M.Ed. from Springfield College in 1991, and a BA from St. Anselm College in 1989.
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This book is an initial attempt to arrive inductively at the truths embedded in the moral teaching of the Church through the lived experience of faithful men and women, rendered intelligible in conceptual terms. While attending to one’s own experience is certainly one step in coming to understand oneself, it provides but a glimpse – a partial clue – into the mystery of who one is and is meant to be. Indeed, experience is not alienated from human cognition but integral to it. Wisdom is the fruit of both experience and reason. But, contrary to claims of those who would give primacy to subjective personal experience over and against the conclusions of right reason, it is only possible to arrive at the full truth about oneself if the intellect is allowed to pursue its proper end, not mere knowledge but understanding. We hope to persuade the reader that a proper grasp of the place of lived experience in the search for truth reveals that the Catholic understanding of the human person and human sexuality provide the only sure route to human happiness.
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Mirus, Jeff, “Three blockbuster books on our contemporary gender crisis,” (October 2, 2024). Click here to read the review.
“Lived Experience and the Search for Truth explores human consciousness through philosophy, theology, and personal experience. Grounded in St. John Paul II’s thought, it examines identity, sexuality, and bioethical concerns, highlighting faith and reason. With honest accounts and scholarly rigor, it critiques subjectivism while affirming truth, human dignity, and the complementarity of man and woman. An essential handbook for navigating through the morass of opinions at variance with our Christian faith traditions that vie with one another for dominance in our contemporary world.” – Francis Etheredge, catholic married layman, father of 11, 3 of whom are in heaven, and an author; his next, forthcoming book, is Transgenderism: A Question of Identity
Part One: Philosophical and Theological Foundations
Chapter 1: “When the Starting Place is Lived Experience: The Pastoral and Therapeutic Implications of Pope St. John Paul II’s Account of the Person” by Deborah Savage
Chapter 2: “Why Subjectivity Reveals Man as Person” by John Crosby
Chapter 3: “The Universality of Natural Law and the Irreducibility of Personalism” by Janet E. Smith
Chapter 4: “Ethics in Search of Its Experiential Point of Departure: The Philosophical Ethics and Moral Theology of Margaret A. Farley and Karol Wojtyła/John Paul II” by Eduardo Echeverria
Chapter 5: “Meaning and the Theology of Body” by Michele M. Schumacher
Part Two: Reflections on the Revolution
Chapter 6: “The Sexual Revolution and Its Victims: The Church was Right All Along” by Jennifer Roback Morse
Chapter 7: “The Sexual Revolution: Four Facts We Can’t Pretend Not to Know” by Mary Eberstadt
Chapter 8: “The Existential Contradictions of the Sexual Revolution” by Carl R.. Trueman
Chapter 9: “Transsexualism as Transhumanism” by J. Budziszewski
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Chapter 10: “Rethinking Humanae Vitae: Living Through the Sexual Revolution” by Deborah Savage
Chapter 11: “Married Experience and the Gospel of Life” by Richard Doerflinger
Chapter 12: “Male Chastity according to Pope St John Paul II” by Adrian Reimers
Chapter 13: “The Design of God’s Love: The Gift of Children Through Adoption” by Elizabeth Kirk
Chapter 14: “Motherhood and the Power of Vulnerability” by Carrie Gress
Chapter 15: “Fathers in the Image of God the Father” by David Deavel
Chapter 16: “Reverent Curiosity: Why the Church Needs to Listen to Gender Dysphoria” by Jason Evert
Chapter 17: “Integrating the Experience of Homosexuality into the Quest for Wholeness” by Marco Casanova
Chapter 18: “My Father Gives Me Bread: Same-Sex Attraction and My Journey toward Wholeness” by Amy E. Hamilton
Chapter 19: “Dispatches from the Front Lines: Teaching the Victims of the Sexual Revolution” by Anne E. Maloney
Part Four: The Science of Love
Chapter 20: “The Relationship between Theology and the Social Sciences” by Fr. Piotr Mazurkiewicz
Chapter 21: “Hormonal Contraception and the Physiology of Human Sexuality” by Angela Lanfranchi, MD FACS
Chapter 22: “Catholic Wisdom on the Origin of Human Life and its Link to Human Relationships” by Peter J. Colosi
Part Five: Global Challenges and Policy Considerations
Chapter 23: “The Globalist Challenge to Authentic Human Love” by Stefano Gennarini
Chapter 24: “A Catholic Response to DEI Policies: Formation in True Love Through ‘Imago DEI’ Programs” by Jane F. Adolphe
Chapter 25: “The Billionaires Behind the LGBT Movement?” by Jennifer Bilek
Deborah Savage, (Ph.D., Marquette) is a Professor of Theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio. Prior to her current appointment, Dr. Savage taught both philosophy and theology at the St. Paul Seminary School of Divinity at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota for the thirteen years. She is a recognized scholar of the work of Karol Wojtyla/Pope St. John Paul II. Her research areas include: the nature of man and woman, the human person, the theological meaning of human work and the conversion of the acting person. Her writing has appeared in many publications, including Nova et Vertera, Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, First Things, The Humanum Review, Catholic World Report, and Public Discourse. The most recent iteration of her theory of Man and Woman is a chapter in a volume entitled The Complementarity of Men and Women, edited by Dr. Paul Vitz and published by CUA Press (May 2021).
Robert L. Fastiggi (Ph.D., Fordham) is a professor of dogmatic theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit where he has taught since 1999. Previously, he taught at St. Edward’s University in Austin, Texas (1985–1999). He has authored 3 books; co-authored 2 others; and edited or co-edited 12 others. He is a member of the Mariological Society of America, the International Marian Association, and the Pontifical International Marian Academy.
Jane F. Adolphe, J.C.L./J.C.D., LL.B./B.C.L., Professor of Law, Ave Maria School of Law, Naples, Fl., Adjunct Professor of Law, University of Notre Dame, School of Law, Sydney, Australia, Founder and Executive Director, International Catholic Jurists Forum. She has worked as an external and internal legal expert for the Papal Secretariat of State, Section for Relations with States.
Jennifer Bilek is an artist, activist, and investigative journalist. Her journalism has been featured in Tablet Magazine, First Things, and The Post Millennial.
J. Budziszewski, Professor of Government and Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Budziszewski is recognized especially for his works on natural law and his series of line-by-line commentaries on Thomas Aquinas. He also studies and writes about conscience; moral self-deception; moral character; human happiness; family and sexuality; religion in public life; toleration and liberty; and the unraveling (and possible restoration) of our common culture.
Marco Casanova, M.Div. Associate Director, Desert Stream Ministries. Marco oversees Living Waters in the United States. Living Waters is a pastoral healing program for men and women seeking focused accompaniment towards chastity. Marco writes and speaks about his experience of same-sex attraction, and how chastity is the roadmap for anyone seeking life beyond LGBTQ+-identification. He works closely with Andrew Comiskey as his successor of Desert Stream. He and his wife Ania live in Kansas City, MO. The work of Desert Stream/Living Waters can be found at https://www.desertstream.org/.
Peter J. Colosi, Ph.D is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Salve Regina University in Newport, RI. He has published many articles and book chapters in the areas of Catholic medical ethics and social teaching, contemporary philosophical personalism and Franciscan studies in both academic and online venues. He is the main organizer and co-founder of the Theology of the Body International Symposia. There have been five Symposia thus far, in Austria, Ireland, England, Portugal and Holland, and the Symposia talks can be viewed at https://tobinternationalsymposia.com/. His personal website is https://peterjcolosi.com/.
John F. Crosby was born in Washington, D.C., and grew up in Mobile, Ala. He received his B.A. from Georgetown University in 1966 and his Ph.D. from the University of Salzburg, Austria, in 1970. His teacher in philosophy was Dietrich von Hildebrand. He has taught at the University of Dallas, the University of Salzburg, the Lateran University in Rome, and at the International Academy of Philosophy in Liechtenstein; since 1990 he has been teaching at Franciscan University of Steubenville, where he founded the M.A. program in philosophy. He has published extensively on the thought of St. John Henry Newman, as well as on the thought of St. John Paul II. The philosophy known as Christian personalism stands at the center of his teaching and writing, and the books he has written are The Selfhood of the Human Person (1996), Personalist Papers (2004), and The Personalism of John Henry Newman (2014). He and his wife, Pia, are the parents of six children, the oldest of which is John Henry. He has assisted John Henry in founding the Dietrich von Hildebrand Legacy Project, which is devoted to disseminating the religious and philosophical legacy of von Hildebrand.
David P. Deavel (Ph.D., Fordham) is an Associate Professor in and Chairman of the Theology Department at the University of St. Thomas in Houston, Texas. A former Editor of Logos: A Journal of Catholic Thought and Culture, he co-edited Solzhenitsyn and American Culture: The Russian Soul in the West (Notre Dame, 2020). His academic articles have appeared in Chesterton Review, Chicago Studies, The Journal of Markets & Morality, Nova et Vetera, New Blackfriars, and many books. He is a Senior Contributor at The Imaginative Conservative, member of the Board of Directors of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars and University Faculty for Life, and a member of the Advisory Board for CUA Press’s Catholic Women Writers series. His public and popular articles have appeared in Catholic World Report, Claremont Review of Books, Commonweal, First Things, and The Wall Street Journal.
Richard Doerflinger, M.A., is former Associate Director of the Secretariat of Pro-Life Activities, U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. He is a Faculty Fellow with the de Nicola Center for Ethics and Culture, University of Notre Dame, and Adjunct Fellow in Bioethics and Public Policy with the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia. He and his wife live in Washington state.
Mary Eberstadt holds the Panula Chair at the Catholic Information Center in Washington, DC, and is a Senior Research Fellow with the Faith and Reason Institute. She is author of several books including How the West Really Lost God, which examines the relationship between secularization and the sexual revolution; and Adam and Eve after Pill, Revisited, about the revolution’s destructive consequences on society, politics, and Christianity (Foreword by Cardinal George Pell).
Eduardo Echeverria (PhD, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam; S.T.L., University of St. Thomas Aquinas, Angelicum) is Professor of Philosophy and Systematic Theology at Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit. He is the author of numerous books, including Roman Catholicism and Neo-Calvinism: Ecumenical and Polemical Engagements (2024), Are We Together? A Roman Catholic Analyzes Evangelical Protestants (2022), Pope Francis: The Legacy of Vatican II, 2nd edition (2019), Revelation, History, and Truth: A Hermeneutics of Dogma (2017). He is a member of the American ecumenical initiative, Evangelicals and Catholics Together.
Jason Evert, M.A., is the founder of Chastity Project and its website, chastity.com. Over the past 25 years, he has spoken on the topics of chastity and gender to more than two million young people on six continents. He is also the author of more than twenty books, including Saint John Paul the Great, Theology of the Body in One Hour, and Male, Female, Other?
Stefano Gennarini, J.D., S.T.B., is the Vice President for Legal Studies at the Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam). He represents C-Fam at UN headquarters in New York and researches and writes on international law and policy.
Carrie Gress, Ph.D., is a Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center and a scholar at The Institute for Human Ecology at Catholic University of America. She is the founder and co-editor at the online women’s magazine and marketplace TheologyofHome.com and the author of ten books, including the Theology of Home series, The Anti-Mary Exposed, and The End of Woman.
Amy E. Hamilton, Ph.D., Research Associate, University of Texas at Austin and Fellow, Nesti Center for Faith & Culture-University of St. Thomas, Houston. Dr. Hamilton has been a Fulbright scholar and a Social Science Research Council Sexuality Research Fellow. Her dissertation focused on the life narratives of Christians who had experienced conflicts with their spiritual and sexual identity. She studies and writes on topics related to marriage, faith, gender, and sexuality. Her work can be found at: amyhamilton.org.
Elizabeth R. Kirk is an Assistant Professor at The Catholic University of America Columbus School of Law, where she also serves as Co-Director of its Center for Law and the Human Person. Elizabeth’s scholarship focuses on law and the family, including issues such as parental rights, reproductive technologies, abortion jurisprudence, and child welfare and adoption. She also explores the relationship, both complementary and contrasting, between the Catholic intellectual tradition and law.
Angela Lanfranchi, M.D., F.A.C.S., is a retired breast cancer surgeon who cared for over 20,000 women with breast disease over a 33 year career. A 1975 graduate of Georgetown Medical School, in 1986 she was appointed a Clinical Assistant Professor of Surgery at Rutgers-RWJ Medical School and is presently the President of the Breast Cancer Prevention Institute (www.bcpinstitute.org) which she co-founded in 1999. She has published peer reviewed articles on the impact of hormonal contraception and induced abortion on breast disease and women. She lectures nationally and internationally on those topics.
Anne M. Maloney received her Ph.D. in Philosophy from Marquette University. She is currently an Associate Professor of Philosophy at St. Catherine University in St. Paul, MN. Her areas of specialization include Philosophy of Women, Ethics, Philosophy and Literature, Philosophy of Religion, and Existentialism. She has published articles in Crisis Magazine, Human Life Review, and The Journal of Prolife Feminism. Also, she has contributed chapters to two books dealing with abortion and social ethics: LivingWith Contradictions: Controversies in Feminist Social Ethics, edited by Alison Jaggar, and Catholicism and Abortion: A New Generation of Catholic Response., edited by Stephen J. Heaney. She is also co-author of The Hand That Rocks the Cradle: Mothers, Sons and Leadership. She has appeared on CNN and on National Public Radio, and has spoken many times in the Twin Cities area about ethics, feminism, abortion, contraception, marriage and sexuality. Her husband Stephen is also a philosopher, and together they have three children and two grandchildren.
Piotr Mazurkiewicz: Priest of the Warsaw archdiocese, Professor in the field of political science and Catholic social teaching, head of the Department of Political Theory and Political Thought at the Institute of Political Science and Administration of Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University in Warsaw. Editor-in-chief of the journal Christianity – World – Politics. Between 2002 and 2008 member of the Council of the European Society for Research in Ethics “Societas Ethica”. From 2008 to 2012 Secretary General of the Commission of Bishops of the European Community COMECE. From 2001 to 2023 member of the Scientific Council of the Institute of Political Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences.
Jennifer Roback Morse is the founder of The Ruth Institute, an interfaith international coalition to defend the family and build a Civilization of Love. She taught economics at Yale and George Mason Universities for 15 years. She resigned her tenured teaching position in 1996 to care for her children, a badly neglected Romanian adopted son, and a birth daughter. She founded the Ruth Institute in 2008, and has devoted her professional skills to developing a defense of traditional Catholic teaching on marriage, family and human sexuality.
Adrian Reimers is adjunct professor of philosophy at Holy Cross College in South Bend, Indiana. His publications include the Soul of the Person: A contemporary philosophical anthropology, The Truth about the Good: Moral norms in the thought of John Paul II, Hell and the Mercy of God, The Good Is Love: The body and human acts in Humanae Vitae and John Paul II, and forthcoming The Ethos of the Christian Heart: Reading Veritatis Splendor, as well as a number of articles on the thought of Saint John Paul II.
Michele M. Schumacher is a wife and mother of four adult children, a doctor in sacred theology (S.T.D.), and a private docent (habil.) at the University of Fribourg (Switzerland). In addition to numerous articles and book chapters in various languages on feminism, sexual ethics, marriage, and spirituality, she is the author of A Trinitarian Anthropology: Adrienne von Speyr and Hans Urs von Balthasar in Dialogue with St. Thomas Aquinas (Washington D.C.: Catholic University of America Press, 2014); Metaphysics and Gender: The Normative Art of Nature and Its Human Imitations (Steubenville, OH: Emmaus Academic, 2023); and God Acting in Man: Founding Human Freedom in Aquinas’s Natural Desire to See God Doctrine (forthcoming). She is also the editor and contributing author of Women in Christ: Towards a New Feminism (Cambridge, UK / Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2004).
Janet E. Smith is retired from Sacred Heart Major Seminary in Detroit, MI where she held the Father Michael J. McGivney Chair of Life Ethics. She is the author of Humanae Vitae: A Generation Later and A Right to Privacy. Self-Gift is a volume of her already published essays on Humanae Vitae and the thought of John Paul II. She edited Why Humanae Vitae is Right: A Reader, Life Issues, Medical Choices (with Christopher Kaczor), Living the Truth in Love: Pastoral Approaches to Same-Sex Attractions (with Rev. Paul Check) and Why Humanae Vitae is Still Right. In her retirement she is helping victims of the priestly sexual abuse crisis, writing on the glories of the Traditional Latin Mass and trying to finish several scholarly projects. Prof Smith served three terms as a consulter to the Pontifical Council on the Family and also served as a member of the Anglican Roman Catholic International Commission III for 8 years.
Carl R. Trueman is professor of Biblical and Religious Studies at Grove City College, PA. Originally a student of Reformation and post-Reformation thought, he has more recently worked in the areas of identity and critical theory. He is the author of numerous books, including The Rise and Triumph of the Modern Self (Wheaton: Crossway, 2020) and To Change All Worlds: Critical Theory from Marx to Marcuse (Nashville: B and H, 2024).
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“A brace of stimulating essays from another distinguished American exponent of dynamic Catholic orthodoxy, whose immersion in the high-octane Protestant theological tradition in which he was raised makes him an exceptionally valuable contributor to today’s debates over whether the Lord Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life, or just another avatar of a generic divine will-to-save.” – George Weigel in “Books for Christmas – 2024,” First Things (December 11, 2024)
“Dr. Echeverria is an eminent theologian and prolific author. His current effort does not disappoint as he tackles a central sticking point in ecumenical and interreligious conversations and relations in the wake of the Second Vatican Council, which he handles deftly and masterfully. This text comes at a most opportune moment due to the many confusing and hard-to-reconcile statements and actions of the present Roman Pontiff on this very topic. This is not a read for the faint of heart, but it is a necessary read.” – Rev. Peter M.J. Stravinskas, founder and president of the Catholic Education Foundation
“The topic Dr Eduardo Echeverria covers is of extreme importance. The Second Vatican Council stressed the importance of following one’s conscience (LG 16; GS 16), it indicated that Divine Providence does not refuse the indispensable help for salvation to those who do not yet believe (LG 16), and that rules of conduct and life of non-Christian religions not infrequently reflect a ray of that Truth which enlightens all men (NA 2). This teaching of Vatican II has often been misinterpreted, although the Declaration Dominus Iesus (Aug 6, 2000) provides a valuable and authoritative reflection on it. Dr. Echeverria’s book makes a very important contribution to an understanding of the teachings of Vatican II and its implications for evangelisation and the Church’s missionary mandate, and of the meaning of Revelation and salvation through Jesus Christ, the sole Mediator.” + Dr. Johannes Hendriks, Bishop of Amsterdam-Haarlem, Netherlands
“’Clarity before all else; the dialogue demands that what is said should be intelligible.’ These words of Pope Paul VI animate Eduardo Echeverria’s spirited dialogue and debate in this book. Taking issue with Gerald O’Collins’s views on religious pluralism and universal salvation, with Marianne Moyaert’s dialogic take on divine revelation, and with Pope Francis’s approach to interreligious dialogue, Jesus Christ, Scandal of Particularity offers a reading of the Second Vatican Council that is in continuity with the preceding tradition and aims to restore missionary proclamation as the church’s primary calling. This book is vintage Echeverria: intrepidly gospel-centered, well-informed, genuinely ecumenical, and—without fail—eminently clear.” – Hans Boersma, Nashotah House Theological Seminary
“I am grateful to be a colleague of Dr. Echeverria at Sacred Heart Seminary where we both teach. I am very familiar with his work and consider him one of the most able of sophisticated theological and philosophical defenders of foundational Catholic doctrines that are massively under attack. His work on authentic development of doctrine, the uniqueness of Jesus, the propositional content of Divine Revelation, and the theology of world religions is absolutely first-rate. This is a very important book. Highly recommended.” – Ralph Martin, Professor of Theology / Director of Graduate Programs in the New Evangelization, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit
“Is Christian theology losing its distinctive voice amidst a climate of shallow, arbitrary, religious pluralism? This text draws not only from Roman Catholic theologians and the Magisterium, but also from the richness of Reformed, Anglican, Lutheran, and evangelical scholarship to address this question. In a deftly postliberal fashion, this book provides a robustly argued voice for the unique, particular revelation of God in Jesus Christ. While acknowledging our pluralist context and espousing religious dialogue, it equally eschews the reduction of general revelation to that of natural theology. Contra the tendency of some theologians who advocate a broad religious inclusivism, instead Echeverria astutely defends accessibilism, where the hope of God’s salvation in Christ is present for all, without suggesting that non-Christian religions are instrumental in salvation. He insists that revelation of salvation must not be confused with salvation efficacy. Indeed, this is a ‘scandal of particularity’ that also renews the particular voice of the hope of Jesus Christ and his Incarnation into a world of confusion and despair.” – Prof. Dr. Ronald T. Michener, Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven, BELGIUM
“Eduardo Echeverria’s new book on the scandal of Christian particularity is a much-needed corrective to the often-hidden relativization of the uniqueness of Christ in so much of modern theology. Dr. Echeverria’s claim, therefore, that theology has lost its distinctive voice is directly related to this relativization. For how can a truly “Christian” theology long survive without this fundamental affirmation? In a series of probing and deeply insightful essays he deftly analyzes all of the various arguments in favor of a “pluralism of religions” and shows clearly how each one falls short in problematic ways. At once eminently erudite and readable, the text is a wonderful example of a theologian thinking with the mind of the Church in order to meet the challenges of today. I cannot recommend it more highly.” – Larry Chapp, retired professor of theology, DeSales University, and founder and chief author of the blog Gaudium et Spes 22.
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Mass migration is a serious challenge in both America and Europe. Hence the question of the ethical limits of hospitality. The answer must consider not only the needs of migrants, but also the ability of the host country to integrate migrants. This depends not only on the size of the migration, but also on its homogeneity. For example, a peculiarity of the current migration to Europe is the strong dominance of Muslims, which is changing its religious demographics and, consequently, European culture.
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“The contemporary challenges of migration, multiculturalism, and globalism have affected Europe and America alike. In Two Towers and a Minaret, Fr. Piotr Mazurkiewicz provides a comprehensive and penetrating analysis of these issues from a Catholic and European perspective. Drawing upon his expertise in political science and his prior work with the European Bishops Conferences, Fr. Mazurkiewicz examines the present dynamics of migration, secularism, globalism, Islamization, and anti-Christianity that are at work in contemporary Europe. John M. Klink, the President Emeritus of the International Catholic Migration Commission, provides an insightful preface, and Prof. Jane F. Adolphe—a professor of international law and former advisor to the Holy See—situates Fr. Mazurkiewicz’s book within the broader context of history and contemporary movements of ideological imperialism. This book is essential reading for those who wish to understand contemporary Europe from a Catholic perspective.” – Robert Fastiggi, Ph.D. Professor of Dogmatic Theology, Sacred Heart Major Seminary, Detroit, MI USA
“Msgr. Piotr Mazurkiewicz’s newest publication entitled Two Towers and a Minaret: Migration from a Catholic Perspective, comes at a propitious moment to expand migration debates by providing a penetrating analysis of the misuse of migration humanitarianism by those who have failed to achieve their revolutionary aims through normal democratic/political means. It is imperative to recognize that as Catholic social teaching has consistently taught, we cannot, and must not, lose sight of, or sympathy for, the plight of people in flight from imminent danger–or for the provision of appropriate safeguards for international economic migration flows. But neither must we fail to learn the lessons from recent and on-going cultural challenges posed by lax or highly permissive deregulation of migration/OpenBorderism. As a committed Catholic who has spent the majority of his life prioritizing meaningful action on behalf of migrants globally, I highly recommend Fr. Mazurkiewicz’s penetrating analysis as a very needed x-ray of the insidious cargo of the newest OpenBorders Trojan Horses before proceeding to gleefully tear down metaphoric Trojan city/national walls, or to preemptively halt the building of the good fences that make good neighbors.” – from the preface by John M. Klink, President Emeritus International Catholic Migration Commission (ICMC), Diplomat Emeritus, Permanent Observer Mission of the Holy See to the United Nations
“Mazurkiewicz takes the reader into the labyrinth of underlying issues and questions, many of which are unresolved, and in some quarters, not even discussed. He describes the bundle of issues as the challenges of the two towers and minaret, symbolic for the Christian religion (e.g., church steeples), secularism (e.g., Eiffel Tower), and Islam (e.g., minaret).” – from the foreword by Jane F. Adolphe, Professor of Law, Ave Maria School of Law, and Adjunct Professor, University of Notre Dame, School of Law, Sydney, Australia, who has worked as an external and internal expert for the Papal Secretariat of State, Section for Relations with States
Piotr Mazurkiewicz: Catholic priest, professor of political science and Catholic social thought at Cardinal Stefan Wyszynski University in Warsaw. Editor-in-chief of the journal “Christianity – World – Politics”. From 2008-2012 Secretary General of the Commission of Bishops of the European Community COMECE.
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