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         Why We Haven't Succeeded 
        in Abolishing Abortion   
        
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    Gerald Christian Matatics 
    is known throughout the English-speaking world as one of the most exciting 
    and intellectually gifted defenders of the Catholic Faith in our time. 
    Formerly an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) 
    and a vigorous opponent of Catholicism, he spent three years researching and 
    attempting to refute the Catholic Faith to prevent friend and former 
    seminary classmate Scott Hahn from embracing it. Finally convinced by his 
    studies that Catholicism is the original and authentic form of Christianity, 
    Gerry, together with his wife and children, entered the Catholic Church in 
    1986. He was the first PCA minister ever to become Roman Catholic; several 
    have since followed him.  
     
    Gerry is Founder and President of
    Biblical Foundations 
    International, a ministry that demonstrates to Catholics and 
    non-Catholics alike the scriptural case for Catholicism. He has held 
    hundreds of seminars, addressed huge audiences of several thousands at major 
    conferences, and publicly debated well-known critics of Catholicism 
    throughout North America, Great Britain, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. 
    He has spoken in countless Catholic and Protestant churches and seminaries, 
    colleges and universities (including Oxford University, Boston College, 
    Harvard, Princeton, and Yale). He has offered retreats and training sessions 
    to priests and religious such as Mother Angelica's Missionaries of the 
    Eternal Word. In addition to being a frequent guest on Protestant, Catholic, 
    and secular radio and television worldwide (such as Mother Angelica Live!, 
    Fr. Kenneth Baker's Review of the News, and other shows on EWTN and WEWN 
    shortwave radio), he served for a number of years as a co-host with the late 
    Dr. William Marra of the nation-wide weekly radio program Where Catholics 
    Meet. 
     
    Gerry's work has brought him into contact with entertainment superstars such 
    as Mel Gibson, Gloria Estefan, Keanu Reeves, and Rush Limbaugh, royalty such 
    as King Kigeli V of Rwanda and Prince Henri de Bourbon-Parme of France, and 
    noted authors such as Michael Davies and the late Malachi Martin. His work 
    has been praised and endorsed by many bishops and cardinals such as Bishop 
    Myers of Peoria, Cardinal Law of Boston, and the late Cardinal O'Connor of 
    New York, who wrote, "You have not only accepted the gift of faith but now 
    bring it to others in a unique way. Yours is a rare gift and your 
    willingness to give it freely to the service of the Church is both a 
    challenge and inspiration to us all." 
     
    Mr. Matatics graduated with distinction as a scholarship student from the 
    prestigious preparatory school Phillips Exeter Academy. At the University of 
    New Hampshire he designed a major in Classical, New Testament, and Patristic 
    Greek and, taking double the normal course load, earned his B.A. in two 
    years instead of four (the only undergraduate ever to do so), graduating Phi 
    Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. He received a Master of Divinity from 
    Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, at the time he entered the Church was 
    ABD (all but dissertation) for a Ph.D. in Biblical Interpretation from 
    Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, the top-ranked 
    conservative Presbyterian seminary in the world, and has taken graduate 
    courses in Sacred Scripture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary of the 
    Archdiocese of Philadelphia. 
     
    Prof. Matatics has taught on the faculties of Westminster Theological 
    Seminary, St. Joseph's University, the University of San Diego, the Notre 
    Dame Pontifical Catechetical Institute, Aquinas College, and Christendom 
    College, and, most recently, served for three years as Professor of Sacred 
    Scripture and Apologetics at Our Lady of Guadalupe International Seminary of 
    the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in Scranton, Pennsylvania. He is a 
    member of the National Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, the Society of Biblical 
    Literature, the Catholic Biblical Association of America, and the Fellowship 
    of Catholic Scholars.  
     
    Gerry and his wife Leslie homeschool their eight children.  Learn more 
    about Gerry, his family, his teachings, and his speaking schedule at
    www.gerrymatatics.org 
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