339: A Catholic Conversion from Behind the Berlin Wall (w/ Dr. Jennifer Bryson)
In this episode of The Cordial Catholic, I'm joined for an absolutely astounding conversation with Dr. Jennifer Bryson, a scholar, a military analyst and lecturer, a former Guantanamo Bay interrogator, and a Catholic convert to talk about the incredible life she's lived – and her amazing conversion…
Ratzinger’s Favorite Author You’ve Never Heard Of
Ida Gorres was a German Catholic author whose work has largely been lost to history. But in mid-20th-century Europe, she was one of the Church’s most insightful and courageous writers, and then-Fr. Joseph Ratzinger said she wrote “with an insightful certainty and fearlessness about the pressing que…
#149 The Hidden Depths of Your Faith with Jennifer Bryson
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What if the way you see Christ and even the Church is only a small piece of a much bigger, more beautiful reality?
In this episode of Persistence in Prayer, Dr. Jennifer Bryson helps us rediscover a deeper, more grounded understanding of faith, identity, and trust in the Church—es…
Ida Görres on the Saints and Sanctity, by Dr. Jennifer Bryson
Dr. Jennifer Bryson, Ethics and Public Policy Center Fellow in Catholic Women's Forum presented at the Little Way Café on Thursday April 23, 2026 on the profound insights on the saints and sanctity according to the writings and life of Ida Görres. An adult Catholic convert, she shared her own conve…
The Voice the Church Forgot: Translating Ida Görres w/ Dr. Jennifer Bryson
Dr. Jennifer Bryson joins Christina to discuss her translation of Bread Grows in Winter, a collection of essays and lectures by the largely forgotten mid-20th-century Catholic writer Ida Görres. Together they explore why Görres's voice—marked by unflinching honesty, poetic depth, and a long view of…
Jennifer Bryson | Bread Grows In Winter
Jennifer Bryson has translated a series of works by Ida Friederike Görres - one of the brightest, most penetrating Catholic writers in twentieth-century Europe. Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger, at her funeral, labeled her a “brave and faithful woman”, with “an insightful certainty... about the pressing q…
05-12-26 Spirit Mornings Show
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Morning Prayer (Fr. Taylor Leffler): 08:01– Jennifer Bryson (What Binds Marriage Forever) – Nebraska Catholic Conference Event May 28: 12:15– Father Jeff Loseke (St. Charles Borromeo – Gretna) – Ask a Priest: 43:57– GBC: Ezekiel 43:1–12 – Father Mark Beran (Holy Apostles Family …
Of the Ecclesial Crisis and Winter Bread
By David P. Deavel
The excommunications issued to the six bishops involved in the Society of St. Pius X's consecrations are easy to defend. Pope Leo told the SSPX not to consecrate more bishops. They did it. He's the supreme authority in the Church. They are not. This isn't a matter of papal rumina…
Even the Unmarried Need Marriage - With Dr. Jennifer Bryson
A brilliant author, Ida Friederike Görres went the majority of her life without the recognition her writings deserved. Daughter of a German Diplomat of the Habsburg Empire and of a Japanese woman who withheld motherly love, Ida Görres wrote on matters spanning from the beauty and fruits of marriage…
Termite Nuptial Dance, Greatest Ice Cream Ever, and Can We Trust the Church? - Episode 6
Episode #6 - in which Caleb instructs Becky on the intricacies of termite courtship, Becky reveals her love affair with Thrifty Chocolate Malted Crunch ice cream, and we talk to brilliant convert Jennifer Bryson about discovering and translating Joseph Ratzinger's friend, Ida Friedrike Gorres!
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