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 Kiki Latimer interviews Catholic authors who speak about theology, philosophy, spirituality, and literary works.Copyright WCAT Radio アート 文学史・文学批評
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  • Episode 189: Kevin Wells on his book Coached by the Curé: Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney (July 16, 2025)

    Episode 189: Kevin Wells on his book Coached by the Curé: Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney (July 16, 2025)
    2025/07/17
    In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Kevin Wells on his book Coached by the Curé: Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney (July 16, 2025)

    Kevin Wells, nephew of a holy Catholic priest murdered for standing up against clergy corruption, has written an unforgettable book—a humble yet urgent plea through the voice of the greatest priest-saint in history, St. Jean-Marie-Baptise Vianney. In Coached by the Curé: Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney, Wells pulls the revered French saint from his tomb and hands him his pen, where the country curé begins to speak to the heart of today's parents.

    In this powerful departure from Wells's usual memoirs and biographies, he steps aside to allow Vianney to carry the weight. Coached by the Curé is a book unlike any you’ve read, a piercing love letter written from paradise to the millions of suffering moms and dads who’ve lost their children to a world clouded by secularism, godlessness, and sin. The Curé’s words offer a sacred blueprint of timeless wisdom for parents to both guard—and shepherd back—the souls of their lost children and loved ones. With so few clergy regarded as beacons of hope, Vianney—the patron saint of parish priests—reminds parents of their sacred role as the primary priest of their homes.

    In an imaginative narrative shift reminiscent of C.S. Lewis’s storytelling, Vianney finds himself thrust into a frank and unfiltered dialogue in heaven. His muse, the teenage martyr St. Philomena, calls together ten of the Church’s holiest figures—priests, popes, martyrs, and missionaries—who gather to reflect on the shortcomings, fear, and betrayal of many members of the modern clergy. God the Father observes wordlessly as Damien the Leper, Maximilian Kolbe, Pope Peter, Padre Pio, St. Patrick, and others offer their insights on what they believe is a re-engineered landscape of the modern ministerial priesthood.
    After the dialogue, God confers on the Curé a new title: Patron Saint of the Domestic Priesthood. St. Philomena urges him to teach and guide parents how to reclaim their sacred role in raising children in the Catholic faith: “Jean-Marie, countless parents mourn for their lost children... you must teach them how to reach and save them.”
    Coached by the Curé is the voice of Vianney, raised from the dead to aid parents in stopping their children from being pulled into a world where God seems to be vanishing amid the drowning waves of technology, modernism, and our long moral winter. He tenderly recalls his years in Ars, where he writes of how his French farming village became transformed from a spiritually impoverished backwater into a town of willing martyrs.

    The beauty of Wells’s writing is his knack for turning true stories of Vianney’s life into whimsical and practical solutions to succor today’s parents, clergy, and laity. Chapter after chapter, Vianney’s virtues shine—his humility, his ability to withstand Satan’s relentless attacks, his deep Eucharistic love, his devotion to Mary, his courage, contemplative prayer, and unwavering commitment to penance and sacrifice.
    Vianney reveals his shepherding principles that revived his village and France after the devastation of Robespierre's bloody Revolution. His sacred way in the mid-18th century illuminates the path for today’s Catholic parents and anyone who seeks to help bring others back to the light of Christ. Readers are taken down a spiral staircase deep into the past to see the heart of a saint who sacrificed everything for the salvation of even a single soul.

    Recognizing the pressing need for support among today’s clergy, Wells (through Vianney) calls on parents to take full ownership of their role as domestic priests in their homes. As the priesthood struggles to regain its footing in the wake of scandals, parents must step forward to fill the gap. It is through taking responsibility for their children’s spiritual well-being—rather than relying solely on a parish priest or bishop—that parents will find the strength to bring peace and holiness into their homes. If you are a parent struggling to bring your children closer to Jesus, the faith, or have lost them to the world, Coached by the Curé was written for you. St. John Vianney’s heartfelt letter delivers the guidance parents need to bring their lost lambs back to the lasting embrace of God and His Church.

    Coached by the Curé: Lessons in Shepherding with St. John Vianney: Kevin Wells: 9781594175527: Amazon.com: Books
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    1 時間 3 分
  • Episode 188: Jeffrey M. Trissell, Esq., on his book Unlocking the Churches (July 15, 2025)

    Episode 188: Jeffrey M. Trissell, Esq., on his book Unlocking the Churches (July 15, 2025)
    2025/07/15
    In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Jeffrey Trissell on his book Unlocking the Churches: The Legal Victory Against California's Pandemic-Era Religious Discrimination. (July 15, 2025)

    “[I]t could be well said that a country, preserved at the sacrifice of all the cardinal principles of liberty, is not worth the cost of preservation.” — The Supreme Court in Ex Parte Milligan, 1866

    This firsthand account by Jeffrey M. Trissell, Esq., one of the attorneys who fought on “the front lines” in the heroic legal battles during the 2020–21 COVID-19 pandemic, unravels the controversies surrounding the unprecedented lockdown of churches. He served on a legal team that represented churches in three lawsuits seeking to strike down California governor Gavin Newsom’s church-closure orders. His team’s efforts ultimately resulted in the only two successful victories in the lower courts in California, three trips to the U.S. Supreme Court within a year, and a permanent injunction entered against Governor Newsom and the State of California.

    In these shocking pages, which include a foreword by Tom Brejcha, Trissell deftly weaves the history of that legal fight with fascinating historical anecdotes and clear explanations of legal terminologies and their present-day applications. He evaluates questions regarding this extraordinary lockdown, such as:
    • Can and should constitutional rights be curtailed during a national emergency, or is protection of those rights most important during emergencies?
    • Is religious liberty quickly becoming a second-tier constitutional right that the government can feel free to ignore?
    • Is worship deserving of more protection than other activities, or is it simply a disposable pastime? If so, why didn’t more faith leaders push back?
    • Can and should public protests, such as the George Floyd riots, be permitted when worship is not?
    • What did the national emergency of the COVID-19 pandemic reveal about the dangers of state laws that contravene the separation of powers doctrine?
    • What legal and moral recourse do the faithful have in the face of unjust laws?

    Recalling the powerful examples of St. Thomas More and others in standing up for their beliefs in the face of tyranny, Trissell challenges believers not to remain silent in times of persecution: A faith worth dying for is a faith worth living for.

    Unlocking the Churches: The Legal Victory Against California's Pandemic-Era Religious Discrimination: Jeffrey Trissell: 9798889115106: Amazon.com: Books
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    49 分
  • Episode 187: Hannah Rothwell on Transformative Learning and Personalism (July 10, 2025)

    Episode 187: Hannah Rothwell on Transformative Learning and Personalism (July 10, 2025)
    2025/07/11
    In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Hannah Rothwell on Transformative Learning and Personalism (July 10, 2025)
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    1 時間 14 分

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