Robert is an international author, lecturer, debater,
producer, and founder of Catholic Apologetics International Publishing, Inc., a
non-profit corporation dedicated to teaching and defending the Catholic
faith. He 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 is presently working on a third movie, The Church versus Galileo: An Historical
Documentary which will be released in late 2016.
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 concerning Fatima, Heaven’s Key to
Peace, produced by The Fatima Center. In 2015 Robert was the guest of the
Mexican television stations ESNE TV and Televisa regarding his movies.
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 concerning 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 and personally met and talked with Pope John Paul II.
In his beginnings, in 1994 he produced and hosted The Catholic Answer Man radio program,
which was featured in the Baltimore archdiocese paper The Catholic Review 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 J. Bennett, Ph.D., holds a doctorate in Physics from Stevens Institute of Technology, with a thesis on rigid body motion in General Relativity. He has been a software architecture consultant to Bell Labs and Fortune 500 firms, after teaching physics at Manhattan College and Bergen Community College. Research now is in progress on several books. Dr. Bennett has written Chapter 10, a detailed, technical and mathematical explanation of the various arguments for Geocentrism. He has served as a consultant for the entire Galileo Was Wrong: The Church Was Right project.