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Dr. Helen Freeh received her B.A. in Politics and Masters in American Studies from the University of Dallas. After working briefly in the business world, she entered Baylor University’s graduate program and earned her Ph.D. in English, writing her dissertation on fate, providence and free will in Tolkien’s Middle-earth.  She taught at Hillsdale Academy and Hillsdale College in Michigan where she met her husband, John. She is raising and homeschooling their three children in Lincoln, Nebraska. She is a contributor to Tolkien Among the Moderns, edited by Ralph Wood, an occasional contributor to The Catholic Thing, a senior fellow at Albertus Magnus Institute, and an adjunct professor at the Newman Institute for Catholic Thought and Culture in Lincoln. 

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Patrick Madrid is a life-long Catholic. He hosts the popular daily Patrick Madrid Show on Immaculate Heart Radio (M-F, 6-9 am Pacific) and, before launching that show, hosted the Right Here, Right Now show, broadcast on approximately 300 AM & FM stations across the U.S., as well as on Sirius Satellite Radio, and globally via shortwave. He is also a frequent guest and occasional guest-host on Catholic Answers Live.

Patrick has authored or edited 25 books on Catholic themes, including Life Lessons, Why Be Catholic? Search and Rescue, Does the Bible Really Say That? and the acclaimed Surprised by Truth series.

Commenting publicly on the effectiveness of Patrick’s approach to doing apologetics, Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop Emeritus of New York, said, “How do you bring a friend or relative back into the Church? First you pray. Then, you follow Patrick Madrid’s advice in [his book] Search and Rescue.”

Patrick worked at Catholic Answers for eight years, where he served as vice president. A veteran of a dozen formal, public debates with Protestant ministers, Mormon leaders, and other non-Catholic spokesmen, Patrick
has presented countless seminars on Catholic themes, in English and Spanish, at parishes, universities, and conferences across the U.S. and around the world.

For nearly 30 years, Patrick has published numerous popular articles on Scripture, Church history, patristics, apologetics, and evangelization in various Catholic and Protestant periodicals, and he has contributed scholarly articles on apologetics in the New Catholic Encyclopedia.

He earned a Bachelor of Science degree in business at the University of Phoenix, as well as a B.Phil. in philosophy and an M.A. in dogmatic theology at the Pontifical College Josephinum (Columbus, OH). He’s currently pursuing a doctorate in Church history.

Patrick has served as an adjunct professor of theology at Franciscan University of Steubenville and currently teaches as an adjunct professor of theology in the graduate theology program at Holy Apostles College & Seminary in Cromwell, Connecticut.

Fr. Thomas Weinandy, O.F.M, Cap. was born in Delphos, Ohio in 1946.  He entered the Franciscan Capuchin Order (Pittsburgh Province) in 1968 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1972.  He earned a Doctorate in Historical Theology at King’s College, University of London in 1975.  He has taught in a number of Catholic Universities in the United States and for twelve years was the Warden (President) of Greyfriars, Oxford and taught History and Doctrine within the Faculty of Theology at the University of Oxford.  He has written or edited twenty books and published numerous articles in academic journals and edited books of essays.  For nine years he was the Executive Director for Secretariat for Doctrine at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.  He has given retreats and parish missions in the United States, Canada, Ireland and Great Britain.  He is a former member of the Vatican’s International Theological Commission.  Pope Francis conferred upon him the Pro Ecclesiae et Pontificae Award in 2012.  His latest book is Jesus Becoming Jesus: A Theological Interpretation of the Synoptic Gospels.  He recently finished a second volume, Jesus Becoming Jesus: A Theological Interpretation of the Gospel of John, Part One, Chapters 1-12.  He is presently working on the second volume on the Gospel of John.