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Biographies of the Hosts (experts)
of the St. Michael
Question and Answer Forum

Bro. Ignatius Mary is a former Baptist preacher/evangelist who was received into full communion into the Catholic Church in 1993. The lectures of Scott Hahn on the faith and an intense study of the Bible convinced Brother that he must become Catholic. Brother is a co-founder of the Order of the Legion of St. Michael and the founder of the St. Padre Pio Center for Deliverance Counseling of which is the Director and Senior Counsellor-Practitioner.

Brother is experienced in a variety of disciplines and ministries, including apologetics, catechesis, evangelism, teaching, deliverance counseling, spiritual direction, moral theology, philosophy, ethics and praxeology, the Divine Office, and the general study of the Catholic Faith, Tradition, History, and Philosophy. Brother holds the graduate degree of Licentiate in Theology and is currently working toward a doctorate in Sacred Theology.

In the area of Spiritual Warfare, Bro. Ignatius has extensive experience giving workshops in the topic, consulting with law enforcement, investigating occultic groups, research, and conducting spiritual warfare counseling. He is the Director of the St. Padre Pio Center for Deliverance Counseling.

In the area of the Divine Office, when Brother first converted, he spent his first six months as a Catholic praying the Divine Office daily with Benedictine Monks. He fell in love with the sung Office and continues to sing the Office daily even when alone.

Bro. Ignatius is professed in private vows as a celibate member (Friar) of the Order of the Legion of St. Michael. He lives in residence at St. Michael House Hermitage.

Bro. Ignatius is a member several religious, counseling, and Internet professional organiazations. Religious organization memberships include Catholic Society of Evangelists, Institute on Religious Life, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Adoremus: Society for the Renewal of the Sacred Liturgy, Confraternity of the Brown Scapular, and Confraternity of Mary, Queen of All Hearts (Montfort Fathers), among others.

Professional Counseling association memberships include the American Counseling Association, the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling, and the former National Psychiatric Association.

Web Design Professional association memberships include the HTML Writers Guild and the International Webmasters Association.

On the other side of the professional tracks in brother's life, he is a professional and published poet and writer, and an editor and publisher. In this life-track Bro. Ignatius is a member of the Academy of American Poets, the Association of Authors and Publishers, and is listed as Editor and Publisher of St. Michael Press and Writers House Press in the International Directory of Small Presses and Little Magazines and the WritersNet Online Directory.

Brother was awarded in the 1980's with the honor of induction the Who's Who in American Poets, Writers, and Editors located in the United States, and the International Authors and Poets Who's Who located in London. He was nominated, but did not make the final cut, in the Who's Who of North American Authors.

In addition, Brother was a recipient of the prestigious Kaltenborn Foundation Grant for his work on Beginning Magazine (a magazine specializes in new talent). [Note: Kaltenborn was a contemporary of Edward R. Murrow. Murrow was at CBS and Kaltenborn at NBC].

Bro. Ignatius was among the top three activists in the 1970's working against the plague of pornography along side the late Father Morton Hill, S.J. who was a member of the Presidential Commission on Pornography and Obscenity and Director of Morality in Media, Inc.. Bro. Ignatius still maintains a membership in Morality In Media and remains active in the cause against pornography. He currently runs a support group in this website for those addicted to pornography and sexual sins — one of the most hideous problems of Spiritual Warfare.

In addition to answering questions in the St. Michael Q & A Forums, Bro. Ignatius is also listedas a expert in Catholic Catechetics on the Allexperts.com website, the largest Q & A website on the Net.

Mr. Meineke is on staff with the St. Padre Pio Center for Deliverance Counseling (SPCDC) and is the Director of a branch office of the SPCDC called the Online Spiritual Warfare Center. He has been researching the issues of the occult and demonology for 18 years.

As an investigator, Mr. Meineke has worked with a well-known deliverance ministry and has dealt with demonic manifestations and demonically infested homes. His experience includes not only prayer and spiritual issues, but also the scientific investigation of paranormal phenomena. He has been trained in logic, critical analysis, and the sciences in college and in personal research.

Mr. Meineke is currently in Phase 2 of the Deliverance Counseling training program of the SPCDC under the direction of Bro. Ignatius.

He lives in Ohio with his wife and four children and works as a Lotus Developer and Programmer for a utility company.

Although Mr. Slavek has been Catholic since childhood, it was not until 15 that he began to practice his faith seriously. Mr. Slavek has a degree in Classical Languages at the University of Saint Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota where he has made a special study in Liturgical Law. Mr. Slavek is currently discerning a calling to the holy priesthood.

Mr. Slavek lives and works in Green Bay, Wisconsin.

Hosts Emeritus

John Miskell
Liturgy & Liturgical Law Forum (10/9/1998 - 12/19/2000)
and Pro-Life Forum (12/4/1999-12/19/2000)

Mr. Miskell is a lay apologist and an active member of the Catholic Society of Evangelists. He speaks and write on many issues of apologetics with a specialty on Liturgical Forms. He is known by some, with affection, and by others with less affection, as the Liturgy Cop. With his wife Delia, Mr. Miskell is co-founder of Your Catholic Neighbors. A former Green Beret Sergeant and combat medic, Mr. Miskell later worked as a section manager for a large U.S. based financial services firm until retiring because of disc and joint disease. He and his wife Delia reside in Pennsylvania. The Miskell's have three sons, Jacob, Timothy, and Patrick.

Suzanne Fortin, B.A.
Church History Forum (9/3/1999 - 4/16/2001)

Mrs. Fortin is a cradle Catholic, but only started practicing her faith in high school. In 1998, she received her B.A. in History from Laval University in Quebec City, Canada, and married in 1999. She has done extensive personal research on Church History and has a thorough grasp not only of the history of the Church but also of the Catholic worldview, which is critical in properly understanding history. Presently she resides in Ontario, Canada where she webmasters Communion, a Canadian Catholic site.

Mr. Troy Martz
Pro-Life Forum (4/17/2002 - 4/17/2003) and
How to Answer a Fundamentalist Protestant Forum (7/17/2001 - 4/17/2003)

Mr. Martz is a lay apologist and Pro-Life activist. He has actively worked in Pro-Life efforts for the past 13 years including serving on the Board of a Crisis Pregnancy Center, starting the Gabriel Project at two parishes, and working at the parish, diocese, and state level to promote respect for all human life.

Mr. Martz has taught Bible Studies and Apologetics in recent years and is currently working on a MA Degree in Religion from Catholic Distance University.

His conversion from Pentecostalism stemmed largely through the consistent pro-life witness of a strong Catholic family and the Apostolic Authority of the Catholic Church.

Mr. Martz and his wife Mary live in Maryland and homeschool their three children: Joseph, John Paul, and Anna.