Episodes

  • Episode 85: Fr. Dennis Billy, CSsR, on The Divinized Person (July 29, 2024)

    Episode 85: Fr. Dennis Billy, CSsR, on The Divinized Person (July 29, 2024)
    Jul 31 2024
    In this episode of The Divinized Person, Kiki Latimer interviews Fr. Dennis Billy, CSsR, on The Divinized Person (July 29, 2024)

    Scripture tells us that man was created in the image and likeness of God (Gn 1:26). This book explores the meaning of this statement, describing each of us as a living, flesh-and-blood icon, a visible representation intended to lead us to an encounter with the divine.

    The Divinized Person | En Route Books and Media
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    58 mins
  • Episode 84: Jean Kelly on her book Less Helping Them/More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice (July 24, 2024

    Episode 84: Jean Kelly on her book Less Helping Them/More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice (July 24, 2024
    Jul 24 2024
    In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Jean Kelly on her book Less Helping Them/More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice (July 24, 2024)

    How you can heal difficult, even codependent, relationships. Offers an approach to mindfulness that is an invitation to join an ancient community of seekers who have practiced, taught, and embodied centeredness--a certain detachment--achieved through Spiritual Reading.

    Less Helping Them / More Healing You: The Transcendent Gift of an Ancient Spiritual Practice: Kelly, Jean P: 9780879467296: Amazon.com: Books
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode 83: Annette Wilcox on her book Bumping the Dock: A Story of God’s Grace and an 18-Wheeler (July 24, 2024)

    Episode 83: Annette Wilcox on her book Bumping the Dock: A Story of God’s Grace and an 18-Wheeler (July 24, 2024)
    Jul 24 2024
    In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Annette Wilcox on her book Bumping the Dock: A Story of God’s Grace and an 18-Wheeler (July 24, 2024)

    I am an unlikely person to be a long-haul trucker. People comment that I look more like a librarian or an English teacher than a trucker. And I have been both. Trucking is physically a little too hard for me. Perhaps for this reason, my life as a trucker has been one of radical dependence on God. The truck runs, after all, by grace, and I’m on the road only as long as God wants me to be. I have truly experienced that God’s mercies are new every morning and are inexhaustible. He always helps! That’s what this story is about.

    Bumping the Dock: A Story of God’s Grace and an 18-Wheeler | En Route Books and Media
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    51 mins
  • Episode 82: Antony Kolenc on his Harwood Mystery Series (July 3, 2024)

    Episode 82: Antony Kolenc on his Harwood Mystery Series (July 3, 2024)
    Jul 3 2024
    In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Antony Kolenc on his Harwood Mystery series. (July 3, 2024)

    Author Antony Barone Kolenc writes novels for teen audiences, including the multi-award-winning medieval series, The Harwood Mysteries, and his latest contemporary mystery, Penny and the Stolen Chalice.

    For more on his work, see his website at Home (antonykolenc.com)
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    54 mins
  • Episode 81: Katharine Campbell on her book Love, Treachery, and Other Terrors (July 1, 2024)

    Episode 81: Katharine Campbell on her book Love, Treachery, and Other Terrors (July 1, 2024)
    Jul 1 2024
    In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Katharine Campbell on her book Love, Treachery, and Other Terrors (July 1, 2024)

    Fairies have one job. They are tasked with helping people learn and practice virtue. I am sure you've heard stories of fairies taking the form of beggars, blessing those who help them, and cursing those who don't.

    However, not all fairies are good. Instead of helping people practice virtue, some encourage vice. These are the types of fairies you generally want to avoid. Nothing would delight them more than seeing you destroy someone you love.

    Unfortunately, for the young King Alexander, his sister falls victim to a pair of such fairies who convince her to launch a coup. Alexander has no choice but to flee to a barbarian kingdom and try to build himself a new life among the uncouth locals.

    Even if happiness were possible in such a place, could he live with himself if he left his people at the mercy of such evil beings? And even if he wanted to help his people, how could he possibly match the fairies' power?

    Love, Treachery, and Other Terrors: Campbell, Katharine: 9781098344924: Amazon.com: Books
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    44 mins
  • Episode 80: Jenny duBay on Don’t Plant Your Seeds Among Thorns: A Catholic’s Guide to Recognizing and Healing from Domestic Abuse (6/27/24)

    Episode 80: Jenny duBay on Don’t Plant Your Seeds Among Thorns: A Catholic’s Guide to Recognizing and Healing from Domestic Abuse (6/27/24)
    Jun 27 2024
    In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Jenny duBay on Don’t Plant Your Seeds Among Thorns: A Catholic’s Guide to Recognizing and Healing from Domestic Abuse (6/27/24)

    In this book, Jenny duBay helps survivors of intimate partner violence identify their situation and begin to heal. With empathy and compassion, she covers such topics as what domestic abuse is, the trauma of sexual assault and coercion, verbal attacks and isolation, and the evils of manipulative control within intimate relationships. She also discusses details on what the Catholic Church teaches about personal dignity, sacramental marriages, and the nature of domestic abuse. Jenny reveals the impact intimate abuse has on targets, providing practical and Christ-centered ways heal—no matter where a survivor may be on her journey.

    For those who have had to leave their relationships, Jenny discusses the annulment process and what it truly means—including the immense healing it can provide. For individuals who hope reconciliation can happen, she thoroughly and compassionately discusses the possibility of abusers changing their ways, helping readers determine what authentic repentance looks like—and when so-called repentance is just another abuse tactic. Whether you’re still married or have had to separate yourself from a toxic relationship, Don’t Plant Your Seeds Among Thorns helps you navigate trauma while providing resources and gentle guidance toward Christ-centered healing and empowerment of our true self, as God created you to be.

    Don’t Plant Your Seeds Among Thorns: A Catholic’s Guide to Recognizing and Healing from Domestic Abuse | En Route Books and Media
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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • Episode 79: Donna Marotto on her book Love Changes Everything: An Invitation to Knowing the Healing Power of God (June 3, 2024)

    Episode 79: Donna Marotto on her book Love Changes Everything: An Invitation to Knowing the Healing Power of God (June 3, 2024)
    Jun 4 2024
    In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Donna Marotto on her book Love Changes Everything: An Invitation to Knowing the Healing Power of God (June 3, 2024)

    Donna L. Marotto is a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist in the state of Connecticut. She is also a Faith Formation Director and Youth Minister. She is a practicing Third (Lay) Order Franciscan and is part of the Korban Fraternity in Rockville. She lives in CT with her husband and two boys, Nathan and Luke, ages 16 and 12. If you want to contact her, please do so by visiting her website at Youarelovedministry.com


    Love Changes Everything: An Invitation to Knowing the Healing Power of God: Marotto Ofs Lfmt, Donna L: 9781664244757: Amazon.com: Books
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    38 mins
  • Episode 78: Jane Adolphe, Fulvio Di Blasi and Robert Fastiggi on Politics, Law & Religion in Times of COVID (May 31, 2024)

    Episode 78: Jane Adolphe, Fulvio Di Blasi and Robert Fastiggi on Politics, Law & Religion in Times of COVID (May 31, 2024)
    Jun 2 2024
    In this episode of The Catholic Bookworm, Kiki Latimer interviews Jane Adolphe, Fulvio Di Blasi and Robert Fastiggi on Politics, Law & Religion in Times of COVID (May 31, 2024)

    After two years of anti-COVID-19 policies, an international group of Catholic scholars and lawyers gathered in Rome under the auspices of the International Catholic Jurists Forum to reflect on how society has handled the crisis in the fields of law, politics and religion. The purpose of the meeting was to highlight what needs to be done in the future to better safeguard subsidiarity, fundamental human rights, especially freedom of religion and conscience, expression, assembly and movement as well as democratic processes per se and the unity of family life. Scholars and jurists, authors of this book, discussed how the pandemic has affected the functioning of Western political systems, how it has changed our thinking about democracy, and how it has affected the life of the Church.

    The publication of this book comes at a time when United Nations Member States are set to complete negotiations on the World Health Organization (WHO) Pandemic Treaty, and on the WHO International Health Regulations. Both documents raise a number of concerns related to the global biosecurity governance regime that is envisioned and the correlative limits on fundamental human rights that it entails. This book offers an examination of a number of related issues and concerns that reflect upon and bravely engage the evidence to offer clear thinking for scientists, politicians, and clergymen in light of faith and right reason with respect for the natural moral law and for religious believers, with assistance from divine revelation.

    Politics, Law & Religion in Times of COVID, ed. by Jane F. Adolphe, Fulvio Di Blasi, Robert L. Fastiggi | En Route Books and Media
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    56 mins