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Dear catholic.com visitors: This Catholic Answers website, with all its free resources, is the world’s largest source of explanations for Catholic beliefs and practices. We receive no funding from the institutional Church and rely entirely on your generosity to sustain this website with trustworthy, accessible content. If every visitor this month donated $1, catholic.com would be fully funded for an entire year. If you’ve never made a gift, now is the time. Your donation will be matched dollar for dollar this week only. Thanks and God bless.

Mark Brumley

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Mark Brumley is president of Ignatius Press, one of the nation’s largest Catholic publishers and distributors of videos and music.  A former staff apologist with Catholic Answers, he is author of The Seven Deadly Sins of Apologetics from Catholic Answers Press, co-author of A Study Guide for Jesus of Nazareth: Holy Week, and a contributor to The Five Issues That Matter Most.  He is also the executive producer of several documentaries, including The Story of the Nativity, Lost Gospels or False Gospels, and Did Jesus Really Rise from the Dead?.  He is the former director of Communications and of the Office for Social Ministries of the Diocese of San Diego.

Mark Brumley holds a Master’s degree in theology from the University of Dallas and is a regular guest on television and radio, discussing the Catholic faith.  His articles have appeared in such places as Catholic World Report.com, the National Catholic Register, This Rock, The Catholic Answer, and National Review Online. Mark is associate publisher of IgnatiusInsight.com.

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