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ABOUT CAI

MEET DR. ROBERT SUNGENIS

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Founder, President of
Catholic Apologetics International Publishing, Inc.

Dr. Robert Sungenis is a renowned Catholic speaker, producer, and best-selling author. He has over 30 years of experience in scriptural exegesis and theological debates.

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Robert is an avid author, publishing over 40 books that defend the Catholic faith. He has produced films such as The Principle and Journey To The Center Of The Universe. These films explain new scientific discoveries showing Earth to have a special location.

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Robert has appeared on EWTN, CNN, and many other media outlets. Through his tireless efforts and vast knowledge, many souls are being saved.

He is the founder of CAI, a lay apostolate dedicated to serving the Church by defending its teachings. 

Robert has appeared on EWTN, CNN, and many other media outlets. Through his tireless efforts and vast knowledge, many souls are being saved.

He is the founder of CAI, a lay apostolate dedicated to serving the Church by defending its teachings. 

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Robert holds advanced degrees in Theology and Religious Studies from George Washington University; Westminster Theological Seminary; and Calamus International University. He is also the chairman of Stellar Motion Pictures, LLC in West Hollywood, California, which produces movies for scientific and religious audiences. He is the executive producer of the movie, The Principle, which appeared in AMC and Regal Cinemas in October 2014. Robert is also the executive producer, writer, and director of the movie, Journey to the Center of the Universe, which was released on DVD in September 2015. 


Robert has appeared several times on EWTN (Eternal Word Television Network): Mother Angelica Live (1998), Living Your Life Abundantly (1998-2001), Bookmark (1997-1998), and The Journey Home (1997). In 1999-2001 he wrote and hosted a 16-part weekly series for EWTN titled Not By Faith Alone, a lecture series on his best-selling book by the same title; and wrote and hosted an 18-part weekly series, Not By Scripture Alone, a lecture series on his best-selling book by the same title. In August 2002, he appeared on CNN television to defend the Catholic Church’s stand opposing female priests against feminist Rea Howrath. In August 2006 he was the featured guest on The Today Programme on the BBC discussing modern cosmology with Bro. Guy Consolmango of the Vatican Observatory. In 2006 Robert was featured as a key commentator in the documentary film about Fatima, Heaven’s Key to Peace, produced by The Fatima Center. In 2015 Robert was interviewed on the Mexican television stations ESNE TV and Televisa about his movies. 

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Dr. Sungenis with St. Pope John Paul II, 2002

He has appeared as a featured guest on various radio programs, including Catholic Answers Live; Al Kresta Live; The Andy Anderson Show (WMCA, New York); The Dick Staub Show (WYLL, Chicago), Off the Shelf (Ignatius Press); Right Here-Right Now; Putting it on the Line; The Bible Christian Hour; The Mark Dankoff Show; In the Spirit of Chartes, and many other radio programs.


Since 1995 he has written articles for The Remnant, Latin Mass Magazine, Christian Order, Catholic Family News, Our Sunday Visitor, Catholic Faith and Family, The Coming Home Journal, Envoy Magazine, This Rock and The Kolbe Center, and reviews of his books appear in Homiletic and Pastoral Review, Touchstone Magazine and Salon.com. For 10 years from 2003-2013, Robert was a featured writer for the magazine, Culture Wars. His January 2008 article: “The Old Covenant: Revoked or Not Revoked?” led the US bishops to excise an error about the Mosaic covenant from the 2006 United States Catholic Catechism for Adults, which was approved by the Vatican in 2009. In 2002, Robert was a lecturer for the Kolbe Center in Rome, where he met and talked with Pope John Paul II.

 

In his beginnings, in 1994 he produced and hosted The Catholic Answer Man radio program, which the Baltimore archdiocese paper The Catholic Review featured in October 1994. Robert was inducted into the Who’s Who Among Professionals in 1996, and nominated as “Envoy of the Year” in 1998 by Envoy Magazine.

 

Robert was covered as a front-page story of the Oakland Tribune in August 1994 and featured in Christianity Today (October 1994) and Charisma Magazine (September 1994). Robert has contributed to the following books: Surprised By Truth (Basilica, 1995); Jesus, Peter and the Keys (Queenship, 1997); The Catholic Answer Book of Mary (Our Sunday Visitor, 2000); The Consecration of Russia (Hometown Publications, 2013).

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