About Steve Weidenkopf
Steve Weidenkopf is a Lecturer in Church History at the Christendom College Graduate School of Theology in Alexandria, Virginia. He is the author of Timeless: A History of the Catholic Church (2018), 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!
Steve has given numerous presentations and seminars on Church History, marriage, family life, human sexuality, and theology to priests, deacons, and laity.
Steve 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. He was also an instructor for the Our Lady of the New Advent Theological Institute – Catechetical School in Denver, CO.
He has his Master of Arts in Theological Studies from the Notre Dame Graduate School of Christendom College in Alexandria, Virginia and received his Bachelor of Arts, summa cum laude, in International Relations from Syracuse University in Syracuse, N.Y.
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.
Steve and his wife Kasey live in Northern Virginia and have six children.
Other Books
The Real Story of Catholic History
Anti-Catholics like to paint Church teachings in a way that makes them seem vain, backward, or superstitious, all in the hope of drawing people out of the Faith and into sects or unbelief. Catholic apologists fight back with facts and sound arguments.
But there’s another area where the Church’s enemies tell their own false story of Catholicism: its history.
The Glory of the Crusades
How can the Crusades be called “glorious”? Our modern mindset says they were ugly wars of greed and religious intolerance—a big reason why Christians and Muslims today can’t coexist peacefully. Historian Steve Weidenkopf challenges this received narrative with this book.
Epic
This Study Set is intended for use with Epic: A Journey Through Church History video DVDs and audio CDs. It includes everything a participant needs to complete the 20-part study. The Workbook guides participants through their study of Catholic Church history with thought-provoking questions and lesson overviews. Comprehensive Study Set responses provide answers and further commentary on the questions.
Speaking Requests
Have Steve come to speak at your next event, parish mission, retreat, or keynote.
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Fr. Ignatius Maternowski: D-Day Chaplain
You never know where you’re going to meet a possible future saint: at church, in the grocery store, or strapped to a parachute just a few hundred feet over occupied France, surrounded by a cacophony of roaring engines and exploding anti-aircraft shells. Read the rest...
The Story of the Crown of Thorns
When the magnificent Cathedral of Our Lady (Notre Dame) in Paris caught fire earlier this week, the world was mesmerized by the apparent destruction of such an historical and holy edifice—one of the most widely recognized and frequently visited structures in the...
Mary, A Queen of Another Kind
What could have been? It is likely this question came to the mind of the forty-four-year-old Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots and the rightful queen of England, on the morning of February 8, 1587, as she awaited her execution at the hands of English Protestants. Her tragic...