(click on Meet Russell Ford to meet Marty's friend)
When
handed a twenty-five year sentence in an Alabama court room in 1987, Russell
L. Ford was an agnostic living as a practical atheist. While still a catechumen
in 1988, Ford’s priest insisted he begin teaching the catechism evangelistically.
God blessed that effort with many conversions of hardened criminals. Ford personally
has sixty-two godsons, he has played a direct role in the conversions of roughly
two hundred souls, the catechists he has trained operate successful evangelistic
apostolates in eleven of Alabama’s eighteen major penal institutions, and he
founded a national prison apostolate called Prisoners of the Perfect Prisoner
National Network.
After
his reception into the Church on the feast of Our Lady of Lourdes in 1989, Ford’s
priest began urging him to write for the Catholic media. Ford has become a highly
respected writer on catechetics, apologetics, and evangelization, having been
published in such publications as Homiletic and Pastoral Review, This Rock,
Immaculate Heart Messenger, and many others.Ford is also author of the popular
book The Missionary’s Catechism, which has been endorsed by Catholics
such as apologist Karl Keating, the late theologian John Hardon, and Fathers
of Mercy Superior General Fr. Bill Casey.
Listen to a sample of Russell's story
on his two tape set, No Escape, which tells about his conversion. To hear the audio,
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