For twenty-five years Kathleen Beckman has served the Church as an evangelist, Ignatian retreat director, and a Sophia Press author of five books. Often featured on Catholic media such as EWTN, the Catholic Channel, Radio Maria, she has addressed clergy, religious, and laity in thirteen countries. On faculty for her diocesan School of Evangelization she instructs on equipping disciples for spiritual battles.

Since 2010, Kathleen has served as the diocesan administrator of healing and deliverance ministry and is a member of the exorcist’s team. For six years, she was a founding faculty member of the Pope Leo XIII Institute at Mundelein Seminary (the school that trains exorcist priests). In 2017, she graduated from the Association of International Exorcists Course (Liberation from Evil Spirits), at Rome’s Pontifical Regina Apostolorum University, Rome.

In 2013, with encouragement of the Vatican’s Dicastery for the Clergy, Kathleen and Mons.  Doktorczyk, J.C.D. initiated the Foundation of Prayer for Priests, a prayer ministry for the holiness of priests, with formation in intercessory prayer. More at www.foundationforpriests.org.