Ed Mazza is associate professor of history at Azusa Pacific University.  Ed earned his doctorate in medieval history and a certificate in medieval studies from the Graduate Center of the City University of New York.  His most recent article, “Not Everybody Loves Raymond (or Regensburg)” was published in the Spring ’07 issue of the Fellowship of Catholic Scholars Quarterly.

In June 2007, Ed presented “Dumb Dogs and Domini Canes: Bishops, Friars, and the Twelfth Century Pastoral Vacuum,” at the Catholic Theological Society of America’s annual convention in Los Angeles.

His travel and research has also taken him to such varied places as New York, Paris, Lourdes, Rome, Venice, Padua, Florence, Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur and Mexico City.  Ed and his wife Tatyana, formerly of Moscow, strive to work and live by the APU motto: “God First.”

Church Teachings, History & Apologetics:

Word of God: Old & New Testament
Our Lady & Marian Apparitions: Guadalupe, Lourdes, Fatima, etc
Early Church Fathers and Doctors: From Apostles to Augustine
History of the Papacy: From Peter to Pope John Paul II & Pope Benedict XVI
Relics: Shroud of Turin, etc.
St. Francis & Franciscan History
St. Dominic & Dominican History
Crusades, Inquisitions, Indulgences
St. Thomas: Philosophy, Rational Proofs for God, Natural Law
Female Saints & Holy Women
Holy Eucharist, Holy Rosary
Holy Matrimony/Theology of the Body/ Sanctity of Life
Christian Art & Architecture
Catholicism & Judaism
Catholicism & Evangelical Christianity
Catholicism & Islam
Catholicism & Secular Humanism, Science
Catechism of the Catholic Church, Papal Books & Encyclicals