Speakers bureau
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Bishop Joseph Strickland requested that Kevin Kukla start the Speakers Bureau so that all the parishes in the Diocese would have free access to good Catholic talks on the pro-life issues, contraception, abortion, IVF, the question of gender fluidity (God made them male and female) and the right to life until natural death, a right that is being challenged in our hospitals and nursing homes since the 1990s. Each parish may have groups who would appreciate free prolife Catholic speakers! Or the parish itself may want to invite one of our speakers, or offer a full or half day of reflection on these issues with Mass, Adoration & Confession, and invite multiple speakers free!
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During the past few months all the speakers for the Speakers Bureau for the Sanctity of Life Action Committee of the Diocese of Tyler went through public safety classes and registration with Virtus. We had practice sessions and I’m happy to report the content is very Catholic and pro-life. On July 17-21, 2022, several of our speakers spoke free for the East Texas Pro-Life Teen Leadership Camp. These were incredible Catholic talks. Deborah Streckfus gave an anti-contraception talk. She took a Socratic approach from philosophical concepts like symmetry and binary, what is natural is not unnatural, and the language of conception, and anti-conception, which is against the normal flow of created nature. Lawrence Fox spoke on the Gospel of Life and the Culture of Death. Pennie Vandenbroek was imprisoned for three months in California for praying outside an abortion clinic as a part of Operation Rescue. She gives a powerful talk about her experience in which she discovered that abortion has turned women into criminals. She was imprisoned with thieves, prostitutes and drug addicts. All these women approached her and told her their story of their abortions, which led to emotional trauma, broke up their marriages, and led them into desperate measures to raise money to support their drug and alcohol addictions. Pennie listened to these wives and mothers and this provided healing to her fellow inmates in jail. Kevin Kukla has over a decade's experience as a sidewalk counselor, a pro-life apologist, and blogger. He gave a talk on side-walk counseling.
On Demand: Free Pro-Life Catholic Speakers for Your Parish or Catholic Group
Members of the Speakers Bureau of the Sanctity of Life Action Committee of the Diocese of Tyler will come to speak to local Catholic groups and parishes. We are also willing to support a parish retreat with presentations, and reflections on matters of human life, along with p r a y e r , h o l y h o u r a n d reconciliation. In addition, we can a r r a n g e t o g i v e s i d e w a l k counseling training for abortion and IVF clinics. Contact Susan Fox at (602)-348-9099 for more information.
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Call now. We have excellent speakers willing to address these and many other topics:
• 1) Chastity, the Beatific Virtue — Blessed are the Pure of Heart for They
Shall See God • 2) Humanae Vitae: Good Medicine for All Mankind. • 3) He Made Them Male and Female: the Myth of Gender Fluidity • 4) Life or Death? Twenty Answers to the Bioethics of the Human Person • 5) Using the Unwanted to Cure the Wanted: The Ethics of Fetal Tissue Research • 6) Stealth Abortion: IUDs, Depo-Provera, Mirena and Other Deadly Forms of Contraception • 7) Roe v. Wade: What Comes Next? • 8) Death Spiral: From Suppression of Conscience to Abortion • 9) My Witness for Life In Jail • 10) Project Rachel: Healing from Abortion contact:Lawrence Fox
planoflife2551@gmail.com Susan Fox
womanofgenesis315@gmail.com ph. 602-348-9099 |
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Dr. Stacy Trasancos, Ph.D.
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Dr. Stacy Trasancos was a research chemist for DuPont before she left her career to be a homemaker. She has a PhD in chemistry, an MA in dogmatic theology, and is working on a MA in systematic philosophy. She is the author of five books on science, theology, and bioethics and writes frequently for Catholic publications. Stacy has been a guest on EWTN, Relevant Radio, and Catholic Answers. She loves to evangelize! It's all about leading souls to Christ. Stacy and her husband, Jose, live in Hideaway, TX and have seven children. Nine and counting grandchildren!
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Dr. José Trasancos, Ph.D.
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Dr. José Trasancos, Ph.D., is a fiercely patriotic naturalized American citizen from Cuba, who is Chief Executive Officer of the Children of God for Life. He holds advanced degrees in Mathematics, Applied Analytical Methods, and Political Science He works with his wife, Stacy, advancing pro-life causes, advocating for the preservation of human dignity and fighting to end the use of aborted fetal tissue in science and commerce. José and Stacy live in Hideaway, Texas, surrounded by five children, one granddaughter (one of nine grandchildren).
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Kevin Kukla
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Kevin Kukla is the President and co-founder of the Sanctity of Life Action Committee of the Diocese of Tyler. He has over a decade's experience as a sidewalk counselor, a pro-life apologist, and blogger. Kevin is a happy husband and a proud father, who enjoys writing, speaking, coaching baseball, and reading Scripture.
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Susan Fox
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Susan Fox is a former award winning investigative journalist for multiple daily newspapers in California and Washington State, and a newswire in Washington, D.C. A former homeschooling mother, who led Catholic discussion groups and did door-to-door evangelization in the Legion of Mary for 30 years, she went back to school earned a Master’s Degree in Marriage and Family in 2019 from a pontifical university, ITI Catholic University of Trumau, Austria. With a love for papal encyclicals, she writes about the Catholic faith, spirituality, natural law, marriage, IVF, abortion, contraception, modesty and same sex attraction in her Catholic blog, ChristsFaithfulWitness.blogspot.com, which has over 4.7 million page views. She has also written for the CatholicEastTexas.online, the National Catholic Register and the Catholic Northwest Progress. She happily lives with her husband of 39 years in Chandler, Texas, and has a son living in Denver.
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Lawrence Gerard Fox, STL
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Lawrence Gerard Fox, STL is a recent Magna Cum Laude graduate of the Sacred Licentiate Program offered by the International Theological Institute (ITI), Trumau, Austria. ITI Catholic University is both an American Cardinal Newman School and a pontifical university. The emphasis of the Licentiate Program was in Sacred Theology/Marriage and Family. His Licentiate thesis was on “Advancing Pastoral Care of Persons With Gender Confusion and Same-Sex Sexual Attraction In Accordance with Catholic Magisterial Teaching.”
Lawrence Fox is married to Susan Fox (39 years) and has one son living in Colorado. At present, Mr. Fox teaches Catholic Moral Theology at Bishop Thomas K. Gorman Catholic High School, Tyler, Texas. He is a member of St. Boniface’s Catholic Church, Chandler, Texas, and helps to support Adult Formation in Catholic Studies there. He worked as a Professional Registered Electrical Engineer for 25 years. During that time, he undertook spiritual formation with the DisciplesofJesusandMary.org which emphasized growth in prayer, discernment and discipleship. |
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Nicoel Mattes
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Nicoel Mattes is a physician pursuing her residency in family medicine here in Tyler, Texas. She was inspired to go into medicine to serve God and His people in a way that respects the dignity of all persons from conception to natural death. When not working, she enjoys spending time with family, reading, and trying new foods.
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Pennie Vanderbroek
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Pennie Vandenbroek likes surprises and adventures. When she became involved in the pro-life movement in 1993, she didn’t expect that would lead to becoming a Catholic a few years later. Nor did she imagine she would get to live with 150 roommates in a woman’s jail in Los Angeles for three months. Pennie’s life has taken her from Minnesota to Oklahoma, from California to Canada, and most recently to Tyler, Texas. This wife, mother, and grandmother believes that God has special assignments for each of us for which He prepares us in unexpected ways.
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Matthew Sciba, LPC
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Matthew Sciba, LPC is a Licensed Professional Counselor, an expert in the field of sexual and identity issues, and is the founder of The Freedom Clinic counseling center, http://www.thefreedomclinic.net, 805 S. Broadway Ave. Tyler, Texas 75701
Matthew serves as choir director at St. Joseph the Worker Catholic Church. He focuses much of his attention and energy on building a strong family rooted in knowing, loving, and serving God. Matthew is a native Texan, and enjoys singing, playing musical instruments, vegetable gardening, carpentry, and exploring nature. |
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Fonda Luersman
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Fonda Luersman serves as the Healing After Abortion/Project Rachel Coordinator for the Diocese of Tyler. She previously worked as the Project Rachel Coordinator in the Diocese of Venice, Florida, and the Diocese of Toledo, Ohio, working to bring hope and healing to those suffering after abortion. From 1997-2012 she worked with the Catholic Pro-life Committee of North Texas in various outreaches including "Convert-to-Life," organizing sidewalk counseling efforts and offering women help and and alternatives to abortion. Fonda has a B.A. from the University of California at Riverside, received her teaching certificate from Franciscan University of Steubenville, and a M.A. in Professional Counseling from Amberton University, Texas. She currently lives with her husband Len in Kilgore, Texas.
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Deborah Streckfus
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Deborah Streckfus is a long-time activist in the pro-life movement. She has experience as a catechist, teacher, journalist and home-educator. Her areas of interest include politics, history, apologetics, culture, education, bioethics, philosophy and liturgy. She enjoys reading, classical and sacred music, acting, rosary-making and volunteering. She is a chorister and cantor at the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception, and member of the Legion of Mary.
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Marianna Trzeciak
Marianna Trzeciak, BA, JD, attended Princeton University and Rutgers Law School on merit scholarships. After a judicial clerkship, Trzeciak practiced civil and criminal litigation in New Jersey and Pennsylvania and taught law as an adjunct professor. Trzeciak has studied piano at the Philadelphia College of the Performing Arts and anthropology at Princeton, the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Bordeaux, France. A dedicated homeschool mother of three for the last 20+ years, Trzeciak contributed a novel argument to an amicus brief on behalf of Norma McCorvey's Rule 60 motion, essentially to overturn Roe v. Wade. Trzeciak has led 40 Days for Life campaigns and has spoken on behalf of the preborn and other vulnerable people at college, law school, community and diocesan settings.
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