Christopher A. Ferrara is a Catholic

Catholic

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 attorney, pro-life activist, and journalist. He is the founder and current president and Chief Council of the American Catholic Lawyers Association. He is also a regular columnist of The Remnant, a traditionalist Catholic

Traditionalist Catholic

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 newspaper.

Legal career

Ferrara holds a BA from Fordham University

Fordham University

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 and a JD from Fordham University School of Law

Fordham University School of Law

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. He engaged in general legal practice in both New Jersey

New Jersey

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 and New York

New York

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 between 1977 and 1991. After founding the American Catholic Lawyers Association in 1990, he focused mostly on pro-bono legal work representing Catholics as well as pro-life activists.

Writing

Ferrara writes articles on Catholic issues in various Traditionalist Catholic publications. Currently, he is a regular columnist for The Remnant.

Ferrara is also an author of a number of published books.

External links

• American Catholic Lawyers Association Official web site of the ACLA
• The Secret Still Hidden Official web site for Ferrara' book The Secret Still Hidden. Includes the full text of the work.