Bro. Ignatius Mary, OLSM

Bro. Ignatius Mary (b. 1955) is an American Demonologist, occult expert, and Deliverance Counselor. He is a former Baptist preacher/evangelist who was received into full communion into the Catholic Church in 1993. The lectures of Scott Hahn on the faith and an intense study of the Bible convinced Brother that he must become Catholic. Brother is a co-founder of the "Order of the Legion of St. Michael" and the founder of the "St. Padre Pio Center for Deliverance Counseling" of which he is the Director and Senior Counsellor-Practitioner. His undergraduate work was in Psychology, Counseling, Literature and Writing, and Philosophy. He holds a Licentiate in Theology, and is currently working on a Licentiate in Sacred Theology.

In the area of Spiritual Warfare, Bro. Ignatius has given workshops on the topic, consulting with law enforcement, investigating occultic groups, doing research, as well as conducting deliverance sessions with those in various levels of demonization or otherwise in spiritual pain and bondage in order to lead them to healing and freedom in Christ. He was featured on Ave Maria Radio for a series of programs on spiritual warfare. Bro. Ignatius is professed in private vows as a celibate member of the "Order of the Legion of St. Michael". He lives in residence at St. Michael House Hermitage.

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.

Religious organization memberships include "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 "American Counseling Association", the "Association for Spiritual, Ethical, and Religious Values in Counseling", the "International Society for Mental Health Online", and the former "National Psychiatric Association". Brother is also currently working with two other counselors to form a new association called the "American Nouthetic Association of Catholic Counselors". This association is not yet operational.

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 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"

Brother was awarded in the 1980's with the honor of induction the "Who's Who in American 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 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] .

Bro. Ignatius is also the Host to the St. Michael's Spiritual Warfare Question and Answer Forum and is listed as an expert in Catholic Catechetics on the Allexperts.com website (the largest Q & A website on the Net).

In the 1970's Bro. Ignatius work along side the late Father Morton Hill, S.J. who was a member of the Presidential Commission on Pornography and Obscenity and Director of "Morality in Media, Inc.". Bro. Ignatius still remains active in the cause against pornography. He currently runs the first online Catholic support group for those addicted to pornography and sexual sins — one of the most hideous problems of Spiritual Warfare.

(See entry for Joe Meineke who works with Brother Ignatius.)

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"
+"If God Wants This of Me: The Story of a Baptist Minister Turn Catholic Friar" (forthcoming)
+"A Holy People of God: The Role of the Clergy, Religious, and Laity in the Third Millennium" (forthcoming)

"Poetry and Non-Fiction Books:"
+"Only Silence is Shame" (book of poetry)
+"The Wilder Letters" (book of essays)
+"The Falling Torch: Our Democracy in Crisis"

External links and sources

* [http://www.saint-mike.org/spcdc/default.asp St. Padre Pio Center for Deliverance Counseling]
* [http://www.saint-mike.org/qa/sw/default.asp St. Michael's Spiritual Warfare Q&A Forum]
* [http://www.saint-mike.org/spcdc/bbs/default.asp SPCDC Spiritual Warfare BBS]
* [http://www.saint-mike.org/default.asp St. Michael's Call Catholic Supersite]