Dr. Paul Kengor, author and political science professor at Grove City College, discusses Bella Dodd’s transformation from idealistic young Catholic Italian immigrant in the early 1900s to one of the highest ranking female members of the Communist party in the 1920s and 1930s. The New York schools and colleges she attended effectively indoctrinated her into the workings of Communism, equipping her to become a master organizer and infiltrator for the Communists, especially of the teachers’ unions. Doug Keck and Dr. Kengor talk about whether the sensational assertions she made, as seen in The Devil and Bella Dodd: One Woman’s Struggle Against Communism and Her Redemption are true. One of her most shocking claims was that she attempted to help place over 1,000 Communist men in Catholic seminaries in the U.S. The Devil and Bella Dodd also details Dodd’s conversion through the ministry of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen. Pick up your copy of The Devil and Bella Dodd: One Woman’s Struggle Against Communism and Her Redemption from http://www.ewtnrc.com.
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Dr. Edward Feser, All One in Christ : A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory
| Dr. Edward Feser joins Doug Keck on EWTN Bookmark to discuss All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory. A highly informative presentation of Catholicism’s traditional teaching on racism and its relevance to the current controversy over critical race theory, Dr. Feser points out the glaring incompatibility of the main themes of critical race theory with Catholic social teaching. “All One in Christ is extremely important to have out there now,” Dr. Feser comments. “Too many people of good will think that, because critical race theory calls itself anti-racist, it must be innocuous, when in fact it’s an alternative form of racism. I wrote All One in Christ to expose these ideas, and to highlight how extreme, radical, and contrary to Catholic social teaching they really are.” All One in Christ: A Catholic Critique of Racism and Critical Race Theory is available from http://www.ewtnrc.com. |
Fr. Michael Giesler, How Christ Saves Souls – with Us: The Mystery of Co-Redemption
Fr. Michael Giesler, spiritual director for priests and laymen for over forty years, joins Doug Keck on EWTN Bookmark to show us how the everyday Catholic can actually participate with Our Lord in His redemptive grace. “We don’t have to suffer the pressure and problems of our society,” Fr. Giesler says. “We have a solution: Jesus Christ acting in us, which is what co-redemption means. Jesus redeems, but somehow, in a profound mystery, Jesus redeems, through us, to help others.” Once we grasp this amazing good news, life becomes full of joy. “What could possibly be lacking in Jesus’ perfect, once-for-all sacrifice of suffering? Nothing,” Fr/ Giesler adds, “except what He willed to be lacking for our sake.” Doug quotes from How Christ Saves Souls – with Us: “Like a good older brother, he lets us share his work, so that we’ll grow to be more like him.” Pick up your copy of Fr. Giesler‘s How Christ Saves Souls – with Us: The Mystery of Co-Redemption, from http://www.ewtnrc.com.
Donald J. Johnson, Twisted Unto Destruction
Donald Johnson joins Doug Keck on EWTN Bookmark to discuss Twisted Unto Destruction, a remedy for the damage that personal interpretation of Scripture (sola scriptura), has caused ever since Martin Luther posted Ninety-five Theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenburg, Germany in 1517. A former Evangelical Protestant, Johnson came to realize the theological havoc that well-meaning Christians who set themselves up as little Magisteriums, rather than rely on Catholicism’s Magisterium, have caused over the past 500 years. Twisted Unto Destruction, Johnson observes, shows how Protestantism has been unable to resist modern errors which are destroying our culture. Pick up your copy of Twisted Unto Destruction: How “Bible Alone” Theology Made the World a Worse Place by Donald J. Johnson at www.ewtnrc.com.
Raymond Arroyo, The Centenary Edition: Mother Angelica, The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles
Raymond Arroyo of EWTN’s The World Over joins Bookmark‘s Doug Keck to discuss something special. For the 100th anniversary of Mother Angelica’s birth, Raymond has written a new Foreword to his 2005 biography of the cloistered nun who began EWTN network in 1981. EWTN is now the largest religious cable network in the world. “What Mother built,” Raymond emphasizes, “is not nearly as important or inspiring as how she built it. Mother told me, and all of us, that if you follow God, it’s always a walk of faith. It’s scary to throw your foot over the ledge, but if you don’t move forward, God can’t move forward and take you where He wants you to go. Mother, and this network, are a true witness to divine providence.” The Centenary Edition of Mother Angelica: The Remarkable Story of a Nun, Her Nerve, and a Network of Miracles: pick up your copy by Raymond Arroyo from http://www.ewtnrc.com.
Raymond Arroyo, Turnabout Tales: The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva Edison
The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva Edison is the first in a series of Turnabout Tales, focusing on young lives at a crisis point where a decision is made that opens up the hero or heroine’s history and also the history of our world. Young Thomas’ mother recognized his curiosity and gave him the ability and the pathway of learning to discover what he was passionate about. Had it not been for Nancy Edison, Thomas would have not succeeded. The shared experience of the adult and the child is as valuable as the story, which is a fun family read for all to enjoy together. Pick up your copy of Raymond Arroyo‘s Turnabout Tales: The Unexpected Light of Thomas Alva Edison at http://www.ewtnrc.com.
Fr. Carter Griffin, Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest
Fr. Carter Griffin, Rector of St. John Paul II Seminary in Washington, D.C., joins Doug Keck on EWTN Bookmark to discuss Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest. The wisdom that Fr. Griffin received as a seminarian provides much of the book’s content, as well as the notes from his lectures given to students. Forming Fathers is for the wider culture as well, as the qualities of good priests are the qualities of good husbands and good fathers. Fr. Griffin points out that a stumbling block for some is the unwillingness to sacrifice for the good of others. This turning inward and reluctance to die to self is fostered by our culture, Doug observes. Also addressed in Forming Fathers is the necessity of slowing down one’s lifestyle pace and detaching from electronic devices in order to foster the interior life. Pick up Forming Fathers: Seminary Wisdom for Every Priest from http://www.ewtnrc.com.
Anthony DeStefano, Greenlee is Growing
Greenlee is Growing follows a girl through the four seasons of her life – in the springtime of her life as a little girl, in the summer as a frolicking teen, in the autumn as a mature adult, and in the winter as an elderly lady enjoying the outdoors with friends. “I wanted to show children not to be afraid of change, and that in every season there is cause for joy, and a new springtime at the end of life, in heaven.” Pick up a copy of Greenlee is Growing from http://www.ewtnrc.com.
Joseph Pearce, Twelve Great Books: Going Deeper Into Classic Literature
An in-depth discussion with Joseph Pearce on twelve significant books of the Western World, from St. Augustine’s Confessions to four of Shakespeare’s plays, and through the centuries to such works as Frankenstein, Wuthering Heights, The Power and the Glory, and Bridesheads Revisited. “Literature is powerful,” Pearce comments on EWTN Bookmark, “because literature tells a story. Each of us is a story, and literature reminds us that we are travelers on a journey, heading to our ultimate destination.” Pick up a copy of Twelve Great Books: Going Deeper into Classic Literature from http://www.ewtnrc.com.
Joseph Pearce, Poems Every Child Should Know: Selected and with Commentary
Joseph Pearce joins Doug Keck on EWTN Bookmark to talk about a collection of beloved poems which he both selected and wrote commentary for. Poems Every Child Should Know has poems for younger children as well as for children of all ages – from Old King Cole to King Lear, as Doug says. “Poetry is life,” Pearce comments. “Poetry is music which every ear needs to be attuned to.” Poems Every Child Should Know is for everyone in your household from five to ninety-five. Pick up a copy by logging on to http://www.ewtnrc.com
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