Outside the Walls

Dr. Timothy Muldoon, pastoral theologian at Boston College and author of a number of books on Ignatian spirituality, the theology of the laity, and marriage and family, joins us to talk about his new book published through Orbis Books entitled How to Remake the World Neighborhood by Neighborhood. The book tells how Community Renewal International built a movement to heal racial tensions, create bonds of friendship, and cure the loneliness and depression that blights our communities in cities across the United States and Africa. 

Allison Gingras joins us to talk about her new book on Ave Maria Press, Signs of Faith: My Unexpected Journey with Sacramentals, the Saints, and the Abundant Grace of God.

Dr. Leonard DeLorenzo, from the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University of Notre Dame, joins us to talk about his new book Our Faithful Departed: Where They Are and Why It Matters available on Ave Maria Press. This book explores the Communion of Saints rooted in Catholic anthropology and incarnated through personal experiences. We talk about how to wrap our minds around this mystical communion and how to strengthen that communion through communal practices.   

Dr. Marcellino D’Ambrosio (“Dr. Italy”), Co-founder and Director of The Crossroads Initiative, is the author of five books and hundreds of articles. In 2019, Dr. D’Ambrosio published the groundbreaking Bible study on the life of Jesus Christ filmed in the Holy Land, Jesus: The Way, the Truth, and the Life, presenting alongside Jeff Cavins and Dr. Edward Sri. In 2022, he became the co-author and co-presenter of What We Believe: The Beauty of the Catholic Faith, together with Dr. Andrew Swafford and Sarah Swafford. Dr. D’Ambrosio is currently a Professor of Theology at the Catholic Distance University.

Matthew Benfield has had an eventful year. He was confirmed in the Catholic Church, completing a 10-year journey of faith, completed a consecration to the Sacred Heart, to Jesus through Mary, and runs a popular TikTok account (TheologiaViatorum). We talk about his conversion, the importance of living compassionately, and communicating the Gospel effectively.  

In Living Beyond Sunday: Making Your Home a Holy Place, married couples Adam and Haylee Minihan and David and Pamela Niles share what has helped them make their homes a place of encounter with God–a place where saints are being made. This book goes beyond the aesthetic or surface-level attributes of a Catholic home. Beyond that, it shares how to foster holiness in all the little moments in Catholic family life.

Dr. Mark Giszczak, Associate Professor of Sacred Scripture at the Augustine Institute, recently wrote the book “Bible Translation and the Making of the ESV Catholic Edition.” In this book, He covers the conversations that preceded the ESV project and the promulgation of the Vatican document on translation, Liturgiam authenticam (2001). The meeting of the minds represented by the ESV translation philosophy and the Vatican’s own translation norms is remarkable.  Dr. Mark Giszczak specializes in Old Testament Wisdom Literature as well as biblical theology and Catholic biblical interpretation. He blogs at https://catholicbiblestudent.com/