1940 Present Church History : History of the Catholic Church to the Present Day
History
From the beginning to 1940. Written for both students and adults. The author intersperses the history with many brief, interesting biographies of famous people, and at the end of each chapter he quotes briefly from a famous writing of the era, blending a medley of elements into a comprehensive historical composition that is at once brilliant and fascinating. A story of the Church unparalleled in its scope, depth, variety and impact, and a book all Catholics should read
The Real Story of Catholic History - Answering Twenty Centuries of Anti-Catholic Myths
Steve Weidenkopf is an Adjunct Professor at the Christendom College Graduate School of Theology in Alexandria, Virginia. He is the author of The Church and the Middle Ages: Cathedrals, Crusades, and the Papacy in Exile (2020), Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church (2019), The Real Story of Catholic History: Answering Twenty Centuries of Anti-Catholic Myths (2017), The Glory of the Crusades (2014), and The Reformation (2017): A Catholic Answers “20 Answers Series” booklet. His presentations on The Real Story of the Crusades, The Real Story of the Inquisition and The Real Story of the Reformation are available also from Catholic Answers.
Steve is the creator, co-author, and presenter of Epic: A Journey through Church History – a 20 session parish-based study published by Ascension Press (2009) and the author and presenter of The Early Church, a 10 session program on the first 500 years of Church history also available from Ascension Press (2012).
Steve has appeared as a guest to discuss Church History on numerous national Catholic radio and television programs including EWTN Live and Catholic Answers Live
He served as the Director of the Office of Marriage & Family Life for the Archdiocese of Denver (2001 - 2004) and as an advisor to Archbishop Charles J. Chaput, O.F.M. Cap. and was an instructor at the Our Lady of the New Advent Catechetical Institute.
Steve is a member of the Society for the Study of the Crusades and the Latin East - an international academic group dedicated to the field of crusading history and is also a Knight of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem.