Apologizing to the Masses

Catholic Education ^ | December 2003 | Karl Keating

[NYer]

Patrick Madrid is the publisher of Envoy magazine, a Catholic journal of apologetics and evangelization. Since its inception in 1996, the Envoy team has garnered several journalism awards, including the coveted magazine-of-the-year “General Excellence” award from the Catholic Press Association.

Patrick is the author of several books including, Pope Fiction, Any Friend of God’s Is a Friend of Mine, Where Is That In the Bible?, Search and Rescue, Why Is That In Tradition?, as well as editor of the acclaimed Surprised by Truth series. He is a contributor to the forthcoming Ignatius Press Encyclopedia of Catholic Apologetics. He has also produced many apologetics tape sets.

Active in fulltime apologetics since the late 1980s, he was the vice president of Catholic Answers from 1988-1995 and helped co-found that apostolate's flagship magazine, This Rock, in January of 1990.

Patrick is not a convert; he was raised in the Catholic Faith, growing up in Southern California. He earned a bachelor of science degree in business management from the University of Phoenix and has done graduate studies in theology in the IRPS program of the University of Dallas. His own story of recommitment to Christ, "Conclusions of a Guilty Bystander," appears in Surprised by Truth 2.

He is the host of two EWTN television and radio series: “Pope Fiction” and “The Truth About Scripture and Tradition,” and is the executive producer of the Envoy Communications radio program “Right Here, Right Now.”

At the invitation of bishops, priests, DREs, and lay groups, he has conducted hundreds of seminars and conferences, in English and Spanish, at parishes and universities across the United States, and abroad. He is a regular speaker at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s “Defending the Faith” summer conferences, and he's a veteran of over a dozen formal public debates with Protestant ministers, Mormon leaders, and other non-Catholic spokesmen.

Patrick and his wife Nancy have been blessed with eleven healthy and happy children. Their most important goal as a couple is to one day hear the Lord Jesus say to them and their children, “Well done, good and faithful servants; you have been faithful over a little . . . now enter into the joy of your master” (Matt. 25:21).

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The "surprise" here is that he can find the time to write, lecture, maintain a blog ... and, occasionally post to FreeRepublic!

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[NYer]

Excellent!!

Carl Olson

I grew up in a devout Fundamentalist Protestant home in western Montana. Raised by wonderful and godly parents, I developed an early love for reading, writing, and drawing. My father was a founding elder in a small Bible chapel, and we would attend services there three or four times a week. In junior high I had some poetry published, but my first love was drawing and painting. After high school, I attended art school for a couple of years, then attended Briercrest Bible College (BBC), an Evangelical Protestant college in Saskatchewan, Canada, graduating with an associate’s degree in 1991. At BBC, my interests in art, literature, and apologetics developed even further, and I was exposed to Catholic and Anglican theology and thought for the first time, as well as other Protestant traditions.

In 1991 I moved to Portland, Oregon, to work in graphic design and advertising. Shortly thereafter, I met Heather, who was attending Multnomah Bible College; we married in 1994. It was at this time that I began to seriously study the history and teachings of the Catholic Church, embarking on a journey that eventually led us to enter tthe Catholic Church together in 1997. Our story appeared in the June 1998 issue of This Rock ("Joining the Unsaved"), and in Surprised By Truth 3 (Sophia Press, 2002).

While working as creative director for a department store chain, I was able to pursue graduate studies, and in May 2000 I received a Masters in Theological Studies from the University of Dallas through the Institute for Pastoral and Religious studies program. Prior to joining the staff at Envoy, I was the director of catechesis and evangelization (2000-02) for Nativity of the Mother of God, a Byzantine Catholic parish in Springfield, Oregon. I have had the good fortune of writing articles for Envoy, This Rock, The Catholic Faith, Catholic Parent, Gilbert!, First Things, Saint Austin Review, New Covenant, National Catholic Register, and CatholicExchange.com. I have also been a guest on a number of radio and television shows.

Over the past few years I have written several articles about the Left Behind books and the Fundamentalist belief in the "Rapture." My book critiquing the Left Behind phenomenon and premillennial dispensationalism, titled Will Catholics Be Left Behind? A Catholic Critique of the Rapture and Today's Prophecy Preachers, is now available from Ignatius Press. It has been described as "extraordinary" by novelist Michael O'Brien, and "wonderful" by EWTN's Fr. Mitch Pacwa.

Heather and I have one daughter, Felicity, who we adopted in December 2000. We live in Eugene, Oregon, which is known for its beautiful scenery, hippies, anarchist riots, great food and beer, and political and social extremes.

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Martin K. Barrack

Marty has appeared as a guest of Marcu Grodi, on The Journey Home. He is also the author of

"The Second Exodus book is the primary source of Second Exodus information. It contains more solid teaching about the Catholic faith than this entire web site. However, I love this Catholic faith so passionately that I have to share with you much that was outside the book's primary theme, the Israelite heritage of the Catholic Church, or that was simply more Israelite heritage material than I could fit into my self-imposed limit of 400 pages."

Marty's conversion story is a MUST read!

"A Kosher Ham Finds Christ"

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His wife just delivered her 11th child last week.

A "friendly" competition with Patrick Madrid and his family? Gerry Matatics is a friend of our fellow freeper, drstevej.

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***Gerry Matatics is a friend of our fellow freeper, drstevej.***

Actually I do not know Gerry. He and I both did our PhD work (he did not complete his dissertation) at Westminster, but at different times.

It was OP who directed me to his website. He's a bright guy and his discussions of Trent/Vatican II I find fascinating.

[Salvation]

Bumping for Catholic Answers!

[Salvation]

**My Bible wasn't just beside me. It was before me - in the words of the Mass! One line was from Isaiah, another from Psalms, another from Paul. The experience was overwhelming. I wanted to stop everything and shout, "Hey, can I explain what's happening from Scripture? This is great!"**

Can you imagine how he was feeling at that moment? Still a little doubt, but brimming with excitement at his new discovery about the Catholic Church.

[Salvation]

**Are the Jesuits still considered Catholic?**

Yes. We can not be the judge. Only God can do that!

[Salvation]

Some excellent apologetics at Catholic Education Resource Center -- CERC

[Salvation]

Catholic Questions and Answers -- Different Categories

Also a chance to ask your own question!!!

[rogator]

This "RCC" songbook is from an outfit called OCP. ML's hymns aren't the major problem. The mostly pop slop contents include much by the other Marty and other modernists.

"Does this make the RCC hymnal (I know it is not called that, but has been a long day) a banned book?"

It should have been banned a long time ago.

[Salvation]

OCP=Oregon Catholic Press

Do I need to say anything else?

[franky]

We had "Precious Lord" at our Mass this past week. I said to my wife the last ime I heard that was when it was a hit song by Eddy Arnold on a Gospel Album he made. That was in 1955.

MOF, I wish he had sung it and not the choir.

[franky]

God Bless EWTN. I watch it faithfully,

If any of you have been on any other forums you should notice the anti-Catholic postings. I believe that Satan is directly involved. One even compared the Blessed Mother with a "Becky Sue" in saying that anyone on the street could have been Jesus' mother.

We need good apologetics to counter-act the garbage being posted.

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Yes. We can not be the judge. Only God can do that!

True, to a point. God alone is the judge of our souls. However, to be Catholic one must ascent to the rightful and proper authority of the Church. In far too many cases the Jesuits have cast off the authority of the Church in favor of their own particular worldview: an entirely Protestant practice. Obviously I'm employing a bit of hyperbole here but I do have serious doubts as to the loyalty of many Jesuits to the Church and hence their loyalty to Christ.

[Salvation]

But can you put ALL the Jesuits into this ONE pot?

I don't think so.

[conservonator]

But can you put ALL the Jesuits into this ONE pot? ,/i>

Nope, hence my reference to hyperbole in my post.

[ninenot]

Hahn's a good guy, and has Milwaukee connections mostly through the M.U. campus.