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About Bro. Ignatius Mary

by Catherine Frakas 02 Jan 2007

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About Bro. Ignatius Mary

Bro. Ignatius Mary (also known as Couer de Lion — the “Lionhearted” and “The Doctor”) is an apologist, catechist, theologian, lay counselor, spiritual director, poet, and writer. He is also an occult expert and Deliverance Counselor. He holds the positions of Provost of the Oblates and Missioners of St. Michael, Commandant of the Confraternity of the Legionnaires of St. Michael, Director of the St. Padre Pio Center for Deliverance Counseling, and Dean of the St. Michael Academy for Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance Counseling.
Brother is a former Baptist preacher/evangelist who was received into full communion into the Catholic Church at the Easter Vigil in 1993. The lectures of Scott Hahn on the faith and an intense study of the Bible convinced Brother that he must become Catholic. Later that year he met Scott and Kimberly Hahn who invited him to join, and did later join, a new organization that was forming at the time, the Coming Home Network.
Brother received permission from his priestly spiritual director and pastor to found, with eight other co-founders, a new and experimental association called the Order of the Legion of St. Michael (OLSM), and to a conduct deliverance counseling apostolate. The OLSM was founded on 12 December 1993.
Since then the mission of OLSM has evolved. To reflect that evolution the OLSM name was changed on 1 August 2010 to the Oblates and Missioners of St. Michael [OMSM] with Bro. Ignatius Mary as its Provost.
In 1994 Brother received permission from his priestly spiritual director and the members of OLSM to begin formation for the celibate brotherhood as a Hermit. In 1995 Brother’s spiritual director received the private vows of First Profession from Brother Ignatius during a Mass, and vested him in the habit. He offered his perpetual vows in 1998.
In 2001 Brother co-founded with Joe Meineke the St. Padre Pio Center for Deliverance Counseling to better facilitate the deliverance work Brother has been doing 1993. In 2004, Brother founded the St. Michael Academy for Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance Counseling to provide more comprehensive training to growing number of prospective Deliverance Counselors. Then in 2011 he founded the spiritual warfare confraternity Legionnaires of St. Michael to be an anchor organization for the Counseling Center and the Academy.
Overall, Brother is experienced in a variety of disciplines that equip him for the apostolates of OMSM, including apologetics, catechesis, evangelism, teaching, spiritual direction, lay counseling, deliverance counseling, moral theology, ethics, philosophy, praxeology, and the Divine Office.
Brother holds a Licentiate in Deliverance Counseling (L.D.C.), awarded on the Feast of St. Michael and the Archangels, 29 September 2001, from the St. Michael Academy for Spiritual Warfare and Deliverance Counseling. From the Schola Sancti Anthonii Domusque Studiorum Bibliorum in Montana, Brother was awarded the Licentiatus Theologiae (L.Th.), Licentiate in Theology, on the Feast of St. Michael and the Archangels, 29 September 2007, and the Divinitatis Doctor (D.D.), Doctor of Divinity, in Catholic Doctrine, Biblical Theology, and Apologetics awarded on the Feast of St. Michael and the Archangels, 29 September 2011.
Brother also holds a Diploma of Legal Assistant/Paralegal with Distinction from the prestigious Blackstone Institute; and Diplomas in Deacon Ministry, Adult Christian Development, Sunday School Leadership from the Southern Baptist Sunday School Board.
His undergraduate studies were in Philosophy, Psychology, Photography, Chinese Language and Culture, Creative Writing and Expository Writing.
In writing, at the University of Iowa in the 1980s, Brother studied under poets such as:

Paul Engle, (former director of the International Writers Workshop and named Poet of the 20th Century),

Donald Justice (former director of the Poetry Workshop),

W.S. Merwin (former Poet Laurette of the U.S),

Czeslaw Milosz (winner of the 1980 Nobel Prize for Literature),

Daniel Weissbort (editor, along with the British Poet Laureate

Ted Hughes, of Modern Poetry in Translation published in London). Brother also studied under

William Irwin (essayist and former director of the Expository Writing Workshop),

Reynolds Price (novelist, poet, dramatist, essayist).

In the 1970s he studied psychology at Midwestern State University in Texas, with additional studies in the 1980s in psychology at the campus of the University of Iowa.
In particular fields of psychology during those years on the campus of the University of Iowa, Brother attended many psychological symposiums and workshops, including workshops on sexual dysfunction and counseling conducted by Hartman and Fithian (the “Masters and Johnson” of the West Coast). He has extensively studied existential psychology and philosophy. He has also been trained and experienced in crisis and suicide counseling. In the mid-1980s Brother was on the Board of Directors of Ray of Hope, the first organization formed to help those with loved-ones who died from suicide.
In addition to thirty years experience in pastoral and Nouthetic counseling, Brother has worked in a private psychiatric hospital, a state hospital, and the psychiatric ward of a state penitentiary. In that capacity he has worked with rapists, murders, and a modern day Lizzie Borden, a kid to chopped his parents when he was 13 years old.
Brother’s additional post-grad studies include Psychology, Philosophy, and Physics from Yale University, Philosophy from Northwestern University and from Fordham University, Theology from the University of Virgina, Biblical Counseling from Dallas Theological Seminary, the Constitution from Hillsdale College, and other courses at various institutions.
Brother is currently following a course of study that includes theology, philosophy, political philosophy, ethics, science, history, and the teachings of Pope John Paul II at the International Catholic University. He is also taking courses, as they become available, in Philosophy, Praxeology, Political Philosophy, History, and Economics from Mises Academy of the Ludwig von Mises Institute.
Brother has been a lay Nouthetic counselor since 1982, a deliverance counselor since 1987, and a spiritual director since 1993.
Brother is the host of several Question and Answer Forums including the Faith and Spirituality, Spiritual Warfare, and Divine Office forums located on St. Michael’s Call (the website for the Oblates and Missioners of St. Michael). In the past he was a catechist and expert on Catholicism for many years on allexperts.com (the largest Q&A Forum on the Net).
Bro. Ignatius is a member several religious, counseling, artistic, and Internet professional organizations. His active membership in associations requiring yearly dues varies from year to year depending upon his ability to pay yearly dues. As a brother he takes a vow of poverty and thus cannot always afford the luxury of association dues; and OMSM is equally as poor.
Religious organization memberships include Pope John Paul II Society of Catholic Evangelists, Catholic Society of Evangelists, Institute on Religious Life, Catholic League for Religious and Civil Rights, Adoremus: Society for the Renewal of the Sacred Liturgy, Confraternity of the Brown Scapular, and Confraternity of Mary, Queen of All Hearts (Montfort Fathers), among others.
Professional Counseling association memberships include the Association of Christian Therapists, American Counseling Association, the Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling, and the International Society for Mental Health Online.
Web Design Professional association memberships include the HTML Writers Guild, the International Webmasters Association, and the Good News Web Designers Association.
On the other side of the professional tracks in brother’s life, he is a professional and published poet and writer, and an editor and publisher. In college, Brother was a member of the editorial review board of the University of Iowa Press, and on the governing board of Windhover Press at the University of Iowa. In this life-track Bro. Ignatius is a member of the Academy of American Poets, the Association of Authors and Publishers, and is listed as Editor and Publisher of St. Michael House Press and Writers House Press in the International Directory of Small Presses and Little Magazines and the WritersNet Online Directory.
In the 1980s Brother was awarded with the honor of induction the Who’s Who in U.S. Poets, Writers, and Editors located in the United States, and the International Authors and Poets Who’s Who located in London. He was nominated, but did not make the final cut in the Who’s Who of North American Authors.
In addition, Bro. Ignatius was a recipient of the prestigious Kaltenborn Foundation Grant for his work on Beginning Magazine (a magazine that specialized in new talent). [Note: Kaltenborn was a contemporary of Edward R. Murrow. Murrow was at CBS and Kaltenborn at NBC]. He was also a recipient of the Outstanding Press Award from the Puchcart Press Prizes.
On the political life-track, Brother has extensive experience in political activism. In the 1980s he organized and participated in many political protests. He has taught courses on Civil Disobedience, anti-Nuclear issues, political activism, and on other courses to teach people how to participate in social change. Brother has been a guest lecturer at the University of Iowa on political topics ranging from Pro-Life issues to criticism of U.S. government policies. He worked as a free-lance journalist covering people and events such as Phyllis Schafly of the Eagle Forum, then Vice-President Bush, the Democratic Caucasus, all the presidential candidates in the 1984 and 1988 election cycles, and other people and events. Brother was also the producer of the Eyes on Justice TV show with guests such as Earl T. Smith, former American Ambassador to Cuba (the last Ambassador before Castro’s revolution), Carol Everett, former abortionist turned ProLife activist, the director of Emma Goldman abortion clinic, the number one abortion clinic in the country at that time according to the New York Times, Mitch Synder, national advocate for the homeless who killed himself shortly after his interview with us, and many others.
When Brother was flirting with liberals he was on the National Committee of the Citizen’s Party and the Iowa Coordinator for the Sonia Johnson for President campaign for the 1984 Presidential election cycle. He also knew people in the infamous Acorn, Weather Underground, and other unsavory people. During those years he was investigated by both the FBI and the Secret Service. Nothing came of those investigations, however.
Brother was also director of the Center for Social Justice in Iowa City. He investigated some 300 cases in three years that included consumer issues, landlord/tenant disputes, investigating corruption in organizations and government, and various issues of social justice. Investigations included an Iowa connection to the Iran-Contra scandal, corruption in an Emergency Housing Project, and exonerating a homosexual dying from AIDS who was falsely accused of Arson. He was aquitted.
In the late 1970s, Bro. Ignatius was among the top four or five activists working against the plague of pornography along side the late Father Morton Hill, S.J., who was a member of the Presidential Commission on Pornography and Obscenity and Founder-Director of Morality in Media. Bro. Ignatius still remains active in the cause against pornography. He currently runs the Catholic Support Group for Sexual Addiction Recovery, the first online Catholic support group for those addicted to pornography and sexual sins — one of the most hideous problems of Spiritual Warfare.
For the story of his own struggles with sexual addiction, and for the true details of Brother’s past concerning conviction of the sex offense of possession of child pornography, click here
Brother lives in residence at St. Michael House Hermitage in Iowa.
PUBLICATIONS:
Religious Books:

Regula Sanctus Michaelis (The Rule of St. Michael)
Three Secret Strategies of Satan and Other Essays
St. Michael‘s Spiritual Warfare Prayer Catalog
Hope, Help, Victory: A Spiritual Warfare Workshop
St. Michael’s Deliverance Counseling Manual (not available to the public)

Poetry and Non-Fiction Book and Magazines:

Life and Other Monsters (a personal memoir) [forthcoming]
Editor, The Spirit that Moves Us: for people looking for a place to speak in the old way

Only Silence is Shame (book of poetry)
The Wilder Letters (book of essays) [out-of-print]

Magazines:

Publisher & Editor, The Spirit that Moves Us: for people looking for a place to speak in the old way, (literary and art magazine), 2012-present
Publisher & Editor, Beginning: the Magazine for the Writer in the Community, (literary and art magazine), award winning literary magazine, 1983-1986

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