Persecuted by the Demonic: Blessed Maria Bolognesi (Joanne Wright) - 2/5/25

02/05/25 • 49 min

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2/5/25 - We’ll examine the life and legacy of Blessed Maria Bolognesi, an Italian laywoman known for her deep spirituality and mystical experiences. Born in 1924, Maria faced personal hardships and illness, which led her to a life of prayer, penance, and service. She experienced visions and locutions, offering her sufferings for the conversion of sinners and the healing of others. She also faced and overcame a long stretch of riveting demonic attacks. Despite her challenges, she remained devoted to the Eucharist and the Virgin Mary. Beatified in 2021, her life is an inspiring example of faith, sacrifice, and the transformative power of surrendering to God’s will.

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I Was Born From Donor Conception... Here's Why It's Unethical (Kathryn Francisco) - 2/4/25

2/4/25 - Kathryn Francisco is a woman born from donor conception who has done advocacy work sharing her story and supporting restorative reproductive medicine. She converted to Catholicism in 2015, thereafter serving six years as Operations Manager for CanaVox, the marriage and family project of the Witherspoon Institute, and three years for the International Institute for Restorative Reproductive Medicine as secretariat. She met her husband while living in NJ and now supports him full-time while raising their children in sunny Naples, FL.

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A Catholic Engagement with Latter-day Saints (Dr. Francis Beckwith) - 2/6/25

2/6/25 - Dr. Francis Beckwith is Professor of Philosophy and Church-State Studies at Baylor University. Among his many books are The New Mormon Challenge and Taking Rites Seriously: Law, Politics, and the Reasonableness of Faith, winner of the American Academy of Religion’s 2016 Book Award for Excellence in the Study of Religion in the category of Constructive-Reflective Studies.

Catholics have done very little thinking about or interaction with the theological beliefs of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (the Mormons). The Catholic Church has focused virtually all of its ecumenical efforts on the ecclesial communities that arose from the Reformation, the Orthodox Churches, and Judaism. Left out of these discussions has been the Mormon Church, even though it has grown to nearly 16 million members internationally by 2016 from its modest beginnings in 1830. In A Catholic Engagement with Latter-day Saints, a collection of Catholic scholars address several theological topics over which Mormons and Catholics hold contrary beliefs: the great apostasy, the papacy, the Eucharist, the Trinity, the incarnation, the nature of God, justification, sainthood, liturgy, and deification. The contributors, some of whom are converts to Catholicism from Mormonism, offer a respectful, though critical, analysis of LDS beliefs.

Get the book at https://ignatius.com/a-catholic-engagement-with-latter-day-saints-celdsp/