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Surfer Priest Talks About Jesus and His Conversion to The Catholic Faith

r. Donald Calloway, MIC, a convert to Catholicism, is a member of the Congregation of Marian Fathersof the Immaculate Conception. Before his conversion to Catholicism, he was a high school dropout whohad been kicked out of a foreign country, institutionalized twice and thrown in jail multiple times. After hisradical conversion he earned a B.A. in Philosophy and Theology from the Franciscan University ofSteubenville, OH, M.Div. and S.T.B. degrees from the Dominican House of Studies in Washington, DC,and an S.T.L. in Mariology from the International Marian Research Institute in Dayton, Ohio. Fr. Calloway has written many academic articles and is the editor of two books: The Immaculate Conceptionin the Life of the Church (Marian Press, 2004) and The Virgin Mary and Theology of the Body (Marian Press,2005). He is also the author of Purest of All Lilies: The Virgin Mary in the Spirituality of St. Faustina (MarianPress, 2008) and the Catholic bestseller No Turning Back: A Witness to Mercy (Marian Press, 2010). Fr.Calloway’s latest book is titled Under the Mantle: Marian Thoughts from a 21st Century Priest.

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