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Though a Presbyterian, the person who developed Catholic Fundamentalism spent his senior year of high school at St. Bede's School and Monastery in Peru, IL. There, he discovered, and never forgot, Chesterton, the brilliant convert of the early 1900s. After reading his poem, “Lepanto”, he better understood the ancient and ongoing battle between good and evil. The good Benedictine monks also made sure that students read Aquinas. Between Chesterton and Aquinas, he never forgot the heart and mind of The Church.
After graduating from Ripon College, he enlisted and then graduated from the Infantry Officers' Candidate School at Fort Benning. He served in the US and in South Vietnam.
He liked to read, and thought libraries were a good place to do that. After an honorable discharge, he got an advanced degree in Library and Information Science from the University of Pittsburgh . He then worked as a Children's Librarian in inner city schools.
As a Children's Librarian, he memorized the fairy tales to tell them to students. After immersing himself in them as an adult, he started to believe them. “People can actually kill giants.”
In a few years, he realized that Public Education had little to do with either.
After inheriting ten thousand dollars from his Grandfather, he left his tenured position and began manufacturing, in the United States, a few products he invented and developed. His company now sells hundreds of household items and consumer products that are made in his U.S. factory and sold all over the world.
As his business developed, he found himself moving closer to The Church. He was received into The Church in his early thirties.
He has 155 U.S. and foreign patents, but realizes that his greatest discovery is realizing that “God can program in three dimensions”. He is grateful for the opportunity to explore that captivating concept.
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