About Gerry Matatics
Gerry speaks at University of Notre Dame; Gerry & wife Leslie, parents of ten (June 2005)
Gerald Christian Matatics is well-known throughout the English-speaking world as an able and entertaining apologist for the traditional Catholic Faith. Formerly an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America (PCA) and a vigorous opponent of Catholicism, he spent three years researching and attempting to refute the Catholic Faith to prevent friend, former seminary classmate, and fellow Presbyterian minister Scott Hahn from embracing it. Finally convinced by his studies that Catholicism is the only legitimate form of Christianity, Gerry, together with his wife and children, abjured the heresies of Protestantism and embraced the Catholic Faith. The first PCA minister ever to become Roman Catholic, he is the only one of the band of Protestant-minister converts of the last twenty years to have fully embraced the traditional Catholic Faith, rejecting as constituting a counterfeit Catholicism all the doctrinal, liturgical, and moral novelties of the last forty years -- and those who have sought to impose them (John XXIII, Paul VI, John Paul I & II, and Benedict XVI)-- and attending exclusively the Traditional Latin Mass offered by validly-ordained Catholic priests.
Gerry is Founder and President of Biblical Foundations International, an apostolate that demonstrates to Catholics and non-Catholics alike the scriptural case for Catholicism and provides a critique of the sham neo-Catholicism that has captured the hearts and minds of so many contemporary Catholics. He has held hundreds of seminars, addressed huge audiences of several thousands at major conferences, and publicly debated well-known critics of Catholicism throughout North America, Great Britain, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. He has spoken in countless Catholic and Protestant churches and seminaries, colleges and universities (including Oxford University, Boston College, Harvard, Princeton, Yale, and the University of Note Dame), has been a frequent guest on radio and television, and has given talks not only to laity but to numerous priests and religious as well.
Mr. Matatics graduated with distinction as a scholarship student from the prestigious preparatory school Phillips Exeter Academy. At the University of New Hampshire he designed a major in Classical, New Testament, and Patristic Greek and, taking double the normal course load, earned his B.A. in two years instead of four (the only undergraduate ever to do so), graduating Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude. He received a Master of Divinity from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary, at the time he entered the Church was ABD (all but dissertation) for a Ph.D. in Biblical Interpretation from Westminster Theological Seminary in Philadelphia, the top-ranked conservative Presbyterian seminary in the world, and has taken graduate courses in Sacred Scripture at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary of the Archdiocese of Philadelphia.
Prof. Matatics has taught on the faculties of Westminster Theological Seminary, St. Joseph's University, the University of San Diego, the Notre Dame Pontifical Catechetical Institute, Aquinas College, and Christendom College, and served for three years as Professor of Sacred Scripture and Apologetics at Our Lady of Guadalupe International Seminary of the Priestly Fraternity of St. Peter in Scranton, Pennsylvania, before becoming fully traditional in his Catholic Faith. Gerry and his wife Leslie have ten children and homeschool.
His numerous talks, available on audio cassette, audio CDs, Video Tapes, and DVDs are available from, and donations (not tax-deductible) can be sent by check, Visa or MC to support his ministry to: Biblical Foundations International, PO Box 569, Dunmore PA 18512 USA, phone (570) 969-1724, fax (570) 969-1725, or e-mailed to gmatatics@aol.com. His website lists upcoming speaking engagements and other important information at www.gerrymatatics.org.