Outside the Walls

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/
 
 

JonMarc Grodi, Executive Director of the Coming Home Network and Host of The Journey Home on EWTN, joins us to talk about the continual call to conversion that leads us to a life of Virtue.
Patrons can access extra segments - Learn more and listen at https://www.patreon.com/posts/72900101. 

Fr. Patrick Mary Briscoe, OP was recently named the editor of Our Sunday Visitor, the weekly national Catholic newspaper found at OSVNEWS.COM. Father Patrick comes to OSV from the English edition of Aleteia.org, the global Catholic news and spirituality website, where he served as editor-in-chief. This spring, Father Patrick was nominated to serve as a Eucharistic Preacher, a work he has undertaken to support the USCCB-led National Eucharistic Revival, and along with his Dominican brothers, he hosts the podcast Godsplaining, and he co-authored the book Saint Dominic’s Way of Life: A Path to Knowing and Loving God (OSV Books).

Paul Fahey, co-founder of Where Peter Is, has recently written a necessary and helpful article on recognizing and preventing spiritual abuse in the Catholic Church called "The Place Where you Stand is Holy Ground." 
This type of abuse is not often talked about, but leaves lasting scars, and is a major contributor to the "rise of the nones."