ABOUT Chris Cheek

Christopher Check is President of Catholic Answers, the Catholic world’s largest lay-run apologetics and evangelization apostolate (Catholic.com). Before joining Catholic Answers, he served for two decades as Executive Vice President of the Rockford Institute, publisher of Chronicles: A Magazine of American Culture. Before that, he served for seven years as a field artillery officer in the United Sates Marine Corps. Chris holds a degree in English Literature from Rice University. 

  He writes and speaks at home and abroad on Catholic heroes and villains and is the creator and voice of The Lepanto Lectures, a series of audio recordings on glorious and tragic events in Church history about which Fr. Peter Stravinskas declared: “Christopher Check has performed a valuable service in providing historically reliable information on certain neuralgic topics, often used to discredit the Church. Each lecture is presented in an engaging style and full of facts geared to make an intelligent response to various ‘black legends.’ I recommend these talks most enthusiastically.”  

 Christopher and Jaqueline have four sons, Nicholas, Alexander, John Paul, and Nathanael. Chris and Jackie breed and show Cavalier King Charles Spaniels, famed companions of the Stuart Kings. Their kennel, Top Meadow Cavaliers, is named after G.K. Chesterton’s Beaconsfield Estate.