Outside The Walls With Timothy Putnam

Destiny Herndon-De La Rosa is the Founder and President of New Wave Feminists. She’s written for America Magazine, The Berkley Forum at Georgetown University, and a raucous series of Improbable Hagiographies for the Catholic Herald. She joins is to talk about the work of New Wave Feminists, and particularly about their Stellar Shelter on the US/Mexico border.

Dr. Ann Garrido is associate professor of homiletics at Aquinas Institute of Theology in St. Louis, Missouri, where she previously directed the school’s Doctorate of Ministry in Preaching program. Dr. Garrido has served as the Marten Faculty Fellow in Homiletics at the University of Notre Dame. She is the author of seven books, including the award-winning Redeeming Administration, Redeeming Conflict, and Let’s Talk About Truth. She travels nationally and internationally helping communities discuss the topics they find toughest to talk about—conversations that always involve questions of truth.

Fr. Joe Laramie SJ is the national director of the Pope's Prayer Network (Apostleship of Prayer) -- a 175-year-old ministry uniting hearts to the Sacred Heart. He lives in Milwaukee and travels widely for his ministry. He was ordained in 2011. He is also a National Eucharistic Preacher for the Eucharistic Revival. He taught at two all-boys high schools and served as a college campus minister. He also served at Mayan villages in Belize. He has been featured on the Hallow app, EWTN, Busted Halo, and America magazine. Today we talked about his book Love Him Ever More: a 9-Day Personal Retreat with the Sacred Heart of Jesus, based on the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola published by Ave Maria Press.

Mike Aquilina, Executive Vice President of The St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology, is a widely recognized Catholic author and lecturer, and popular Church Historian. He hosts The Way of the Fathers Podcast.  Our conversation today was prompted by his book Africa and the Early Church: The Almost-Forgotten Roots of Catholic Christianity, released by Emmaus Road Publishing. We spoke about how understanding the diversity in our history can give us a broader understanding of our place in the Kingdom of God, and our deep connection, appreciation, and need for those who don't look like us.

Paul Fahey is a retreat leader and writer. He is a co-founder of Where Peter Is, wherepeteris.com, the founder and co-host of the Pope Francis Generation podcast, popefrancisgeneration.com, and a co-founder of Practical Kerygma, practicalkerygma.com. For the past eight years, he has worked as a professional catechist and is currently working toward a Masters Degree in Mental Health Counseling. His long-term goal is to provide pastoral counseling for Catholics who have been spiritually abused. You can join him in mid-April for an upcoming workshop on Desiderio Desideravi. The workshop will help you understand and participate in the Mass as a life-giving encounter with God's relentless desire for you. By prayerfully reading and discussing what the Church actually teaches about the Mass, you will not only grow in your own love for the Eucharist but you will be more prepared to share that devotion with others. Along with myself and a small community of learners, you will come to see the Mass as the privileged pla

Fr. Sebastian Walshe is a Norbertine Canon of the Abbey of St. Michael in the Diocese of Orange, California, where he is a professor of philosophy for the seminary program.  We discuss his new book published by Catholic Answers Press, Heart of the Gospel: How the Beatitudes Show Us God's Plan for Happiness, and how understanding and practicing the beatitudes lead us to true happiness.

Santonio Hill was working in ministry in Philadelphia. As that was coming to an end he began applying and preparing for nursing school during quarantine. After the death of George Floyd, Santonio was inspired to be a boots-on-the-ground missionary making a difference, even if only in one teen’s life that has to live in the shadows of America. Santonio wanted to put an end to the idea of merely surviving, and felt called to teach teens how to thrive. He is the assistant director of recruitment for Vagabond Missions, which has 13 missions across eight states. Vagabond Missions understands that inner-city teens confront a cycle of neglect, violence, and broken family life. Vagabond Missions introduces them to Jesus and a loving community by mobilizing missionaries. Through outreach, every inner-city teen can be known, loved, and experience hope for their lives. Learn more at vagabondmissions.com 

Donald Wallenfang, OCDS, PhD, Emmanuel Mary of the Cross, is a Secular Discalced Carmelite, Professor of Theology and Philosophy at Sacred Heart Major Seminary, and founder of myinteriorcastle.com a website featuring online mini-courses about Catholic theology, philosophy, and spirituality that you can take from home at your own pace! Wallenfang specializes in Catholic theology and philosophy, Carmelite spirituality, phenomenology and metaphysics. He teaches courses in philosophy, theology, lay ecclesial ministry, evangelization, and Catholic spirituality. We talk about the importance of diverse formation in the life of a disciple; forming not only the intellect, but the spiritual life as well.

Ryan O'Hara is the host of Better Preach, a podcast for anyone who gives talks (Youth Ministers, Catechists, Priests and Deacons, Volunteers for Religious Ed, Missionaries on College Campuses) to Catholic audiences and wants to communicate more effectively. He also servers as the Marketing Strategist for Saint Paul’s Outreach an organization dedicated to building Catholic missional community, transforming a generation, on college campuses and beyond. We talk about communication, evangelization, and best practices.  

Timothy P. O’Malley is the Director of Education at the McGrath Institute for Church Life, where he also serves as Academic Director of the Notre Dame Center for Liturgy. He teaches and researches at Notre Dame in the areas of liturgical-sacramental theology, catechesis, and aesthetics. He is a member of the executive planning team for the US Conference of Catholic Bishops’ Eucharistic Revival. His new book, ‘Becoming Eucharistic People: The Hope and Promise of Parish Life’, is published by Ave Maria Press as part of the Engaging Catholicism series from the McGrath Institute for Church Life at the University Notre Dame. 

Simone Rizkallah is currently the Director of Program Growth for Endow Groups. She is also an Institute of Catholic Theology Fellow, a Witherspoon/John Jay Institute Fellow and an Acton Institute Fellow. She has led local chapters of the ecclesial movement of Communion and Liberation in Virginia and Arizona and the Washington, D.C. based non-profit organization In Defense of Christians. She is also a member of Women Speak For Themselves. As the daughter of immigrants from the Armenian Diaspora in Cairo, Egypt, she has a particular interest in matters of religious freedom and culture. In her free time she enjoys teaching RCIA, speaking and writing. She has been published in ChurchPOP, Aleteia, Verily, CatholicU, and Ethika Politika and was featured as a Guest Contributor in the book Road Signs for Catholic Teens published by Our Sunday Visitor. She blogs at www.culturalgypsy.com. We talk today about the Catholic Intellectual Life, the Feminine Genius, and the importance of community.

Jordan Daniel Wood is a Catholic theologian and stay-at-home dad of four young daughters. He holds a PhD in Historical Theology from Boston College. His first book was published in 2022, The Whole Mystery of Christ: Creation as Incarnation in Maximus Confessor (University of Notre Dame Press). He is currently translating Maximus’s Letters for Catholic University of America Press, and is co-translating F. W. J. Schelling’s Original Lectures on the Philosophy of Revelation, a project that recently received an NEH grant. He’s also at work on a book for Wipf and Stock’s Cascade imprint entitled A Shadow of Things to Come: Christian Life with St. Maximus Confessor. He has taught in university, seminary, and high school settings.

Fr. Sean Hagerty, SJ, is the vocation promoter for the UEA Province. That means that Fr. Hagerty is responsible for accompanying men who are discerning a life in the Society of Jesus. He joined the Jesuits in 2012, after having served in the U.S. army. He has ministered in prisons, campus ministries and hospitals, and conducted research into just war, moral injury and the reintegration of soldiers into the Catholic community. He was just ordained a priest in 2022. We spoke with him about the process of discernment live from St. Louis at SEEK23 put on by FOCUS. 

Michael Lofton, host of the youtube channel Reason and Theology, joins us to continue our focus on the incarnation, providing us with an Eastern Catholic perspective. Listen and share!

Derek Rotty (derekrotty.com), joins us to talk about a recent series of pieces using art to meditate on the Incarnation. You can find The Art of Advent series at https://catholicexchange.com/author/derekrotty/. Listen and share.

Joe Heschmeyer, staff apologist at Catholic Answers, joins us to talk about the mystery of the Incarnation.

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.