Dr. Timothy O'Donnell - Suffering with God: Job & the Attacks of the Evil One

Dr. Timothy O'Donnell is the President of Christendom College in Front Royal, VA. He received both his licentiate and doctoral degrees in Ascetical and Mystical Theology from the Pontifical University of St. Thomas Aquinas (Angelicum) in Rome. He is a Knight of the Grand Cross in the Order of the Holy Sepulchre and a Consultor to the Pontifical Council for the Family. A respected author and lecturer, Dr. O'Donnell has filmed ten lecture series for EWTN.

O'Donnell's lecture is part of an ongoing series sponsored by The Institute of Catholic Culture, an adult catechetical organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization. The Institute seeks to fulfill its mission by offering education programs structured upon the classical liberal arts and by offering opportunities in which authentic Catholic culture is experienced and lived.

Rev. Eric Bergman - Catholic for a Reason: Stories of Conversion to the True Faith

Father Eric Bergman is a Catholic Priest of the Personal Ordinariate of the Chair of St. Peter.  He serves Scranton, PA as Pastor of St. Thomas More Catholic Church, a parish of converts to Catholicism from the Anglican tradition. Formerly a clergyman of the Episcopal Church and a convert to Catholicism, Father Bergman serves as Chaplain of the Anglican Use Society, a Catholic organization dedicated to increasing awareness of the Pastoral Provision and now the 2009 Apostolic Constitution of Pope Benedict XVI, Anglicanorum Coetibus. His articles have been published in Anglican Embers, This Rock, and Catholic Men's Quarterly.

Father Bergman's lecture is part of an ongoing series sponsored by The Institute of Catholic Culture, an adult catechetical organization, faithful to the Magisterium of the Catholic Church, and dedicated to the Church’s call for a new evangelization. The Institute seeks to fulfill its mission by offering education programs structured upon the classical liberal arts and by offering opportunities in which authentic Catholic culture is experienced and lived.

 

Institute of Catholic Culture: Forming Disciples in the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia

There is, perhaps, no better place to be a Catholic than the Diocese of Arlington, Virginia.  Its founding bishop, Thomas J. Welsh, established a solid foundation at its creation in 1974.  He invited contemplative orders to the diocese to pray for the local church, welcomed evangelists of the media age, like the Daughters of St. Paul, assisted in the founding of solidly Catholic Christendom College, and ensured priests of the diocese received an orthodox, fully Catholic formation.  The diocese's reputation for orthodoxy has attracted an abundance of priestly and religious vocations, and many parishes have had to expand rectories to accommodate at least three or four resident priests.  

This blog has featured the homilies and sermons of two of the finest, holy and most knowledgeable priests of the Arlington Diocese, Father Franklyn McAfee and Father Paul Scalia.  

A key to the diocese's success has been a rich array of parish-based adult catechesis programs.  Pastors have recognized that two generations of American Catholics have suffered from poor formation in the faith.  Many Catholics who have moved to the Northern Virginia diocese have discovered a fullness of the faith that they had not even known existed.  

Among many great new cathechetical apostolates in the diocese, forming Catholics more knowledgeable and faithful to Jesus Christ and His Church, is the Institute of Catholic Culture.  Founded by Sabatino Carnazzo, a recent graduate of Christendom College, the Institute sponsors lectures on Catholic history, philosophy, and theology "as a way of healing the wounds in the Body of Christ, and reaching out to those who seek knowledge of the Truth."  The Institute regularly draws hundreds to hear the best teachers and provides "a social setting where the Faith is not only learned, but lived." 

Audio tapes of the Institute's programs are available on its website, and we will be featuring these exceptional lectures on this blog in the weeks ahead.

Mr. Carnazzo was recently interviewed by Father Benedict Groeschel on EWTN's Sunday Night Live program.  It provides a great insight into this needed and extraordinary new apostolate and its founder.