TOPICS COVERED: Was St. Catherine of Sienna a feminist, What was the Avignon Captivity and how it came about, The childhood of St. Catherine of Sienna in 14th century Tuscany, Suggested readings on the life of St. Catherine.Biography for Christopher Check:
BIOGRAPHY: Christopher Check is the Executive Vice President of the Rockford Institute, a not-for-profit band of scholars, which promotes and defends the personal virtues and cultural principles without which Christian Civilization cannot thrive. From1995-1997 he served as the Editor of THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, a monthly publication that affirms, through scholarly research, the traditional family as the origin of civilization, and defends and promotes the virtues that strengthen family life.
Graduating in 1987 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature from Rice University, he was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps. Following combat officer training at Quantico, Virginia, and field artillery training at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, he joined the Eleventh Marine Regiment and served in exercises, deployments, and expeditions in Okinawa, Korea, Japan, the Philippines, and the Persian Gulf filling the billets of Forward Observer, Fire Direction Officer, and Guns Platoon Commander. After three years in the Fleet Marine Force, he supervised screening and induction of Armed Forces enlistees at the Military Entrance Processing Station, Milwaukee. He was promoted to Captain in March, 1992. He resigned his Commission in December 1993 to join the Rockford Institute. His decorations include the Joint Service Commendation Medal, The Joint Service Achievement Medal, the Navy Unit Commendation, the Southwest Asia Service Medal, and The National Defense Medal.
As a Non Government Observer representing the Rockford Institute he has observed—with displeasure—United Nations World Summits, Conferences, and Preparatory Sessions on Population, Women, Human Settlements, and Food.
His writings have appeared in Rockford Institute publications: CHRONICLES and THE FAMILY IN AMERICA, as well as CULTURE WARS, TOUCHSTONE, NATIONAL REVIEW, THE WANDERER, THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE, DEFENSE MEDIA REVIEW, THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE, THE CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, THE WASHINGTON TIMES and various newspapers across the country.
His television and radio appearances include programs on National Public Radio, Wisconsin Public Television, Illinois Public Television, the BBC, Radio Free Europe, and the Business Radio Network. He is an award-winning fortnightly commentator for Northern Illinois Public Radio.
His has spoken on topics ranging from Saint Catherine of Siena to the Battle of Lepanto in various exotic ports of call such as the University of London, the Pontifical Augustinian University in Rome, The Serbian Writers Union in Belgrade, and the National Press Club in Washington D.C. He has also spoken in various venues—many of them respectable—across the Republic, including the Irish Rose Saloon, Rockford, Illinois.
He and his wife, Jacqueline, have four sons, Nicholas, Alexander, John Paul, and Nathanael.
From February: The Cristeros (mp3, RM)
Programs from 2007:
Henry VIII: Behind the Divorce (mp3, RM)
The Real Saint Joan (mp3, RM)
Lepanto: Significance for Our Times (mp3, RM)
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