Interview With Catholic Disney Artist Fabiola Garza | The Catholic Talk Show

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🔴 ► ORDER PRINCESSES OF HEAVEN 👉 bit.ly/PrincessesOfHeaven Six stories of heroic love and virtue that will instill in every young girl a desire for sainthood. Disney artist Fabiola Garza’s new book "Princesses of Heaven" shows how this dream can become a reality when girls find their identity in being daughters of the King of Heaven with saints who lead the way.

[@robinmartin7446]

As a women , I love this "bro show"

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

😂❤

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

They’re the best

[@toeknee5565]

Yea she came in kind of hot. I understand she was "joking" but there seemed to be some sharpness there

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

@@toeknee5565 Totally meant as a joke!! Really I’m sorry, it was just meant to try to be funny and break the ice. I really hope that is how everyone took it. ❤️

[@joseeturner]

Really good discussion and I am very excited to see a faithful woman using her gifts for the Lord in such a great way. God bless you all.

[@lovingthefaithcatholic]

Thank you Fabiola Garza for creating this beautiful book! 👸 Also Thank you Catholic Talk show for inviting her on the show. By the way as female viewer I love watching your guy's bro show lol.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

They are such a good vibe! I loved being on!

[@cinwells7]

I ordered the book before even watching this! My oldest daughter is going to be 32 years old in 10 days and she loves Disney Princesses. She now has a one year old daughter and has so many Disney Princesses books, toys, and clothing. My daughter has left the Catholic Church, but I know she will love this book!

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

I so hope this might become a path for her to return to the fold one day! I hope the book is a blessing in her life!

[@cinwells7]

@@fabiolagarzacreates that’s my prayer everyday. I pray this for her and our other 3 children that have also left the Catholic faith. I pray for our youngest son to stay in faith.

[@lisabenante3682]

As a Catholic in pageantry, I am fulfilling my purpose by encouraging others to pray regularly, exercise frequently, and serve one another/thier community ..paving the way towards world peace. I’m excited to read Fabiola’s book! 🤗✝️👑 Most Respectfully, Lisa Benante

[@AC_S007]

Lisa, I have a question. I know my question could easily be misconstrued as toxic or disparaging but I don't intend it to be read that way. It's a genuine question from someone who doesn't pay attention to the pageantry scene and only has a superficial perspective on it. So here is my question what are the goods that comes from pageantry? And do those goods outweigh the evils, at least from my superficial understanding, that occur? Or maybe a better starting question is why does one get into pageantry?

[@lisabenante3682]

Great question! 🤗 I was led into pageantry by following my passion for fitness. It was a prior Catholic seminarian I spoke to who encouraged me to share my faith through my journey. I consider pageantry as a stepping stone to speaking and writing, as a way to get my name out there. I hope this helps. 🤗

[@mariancunningham2553]

My oldest son is in his late forties and has one daughter who is in university currently as a day student from the day she was born he has called her his princess and still does to this very day and she is now twenty-two and a huge smile immediately comes across her face. I feel that all little girls need to hear their dads call them by this name frequently in their lives❤️❤️❤️

[@PinkDoomsday]

My 2.5 year old daughter LOVES this book! Every time we pull it out she points at all the flowers and says “beautiful!” Her favorite princess is Lucy because she is dressed in pink! And asks to read about the pink princess over and over. Thank you Fabiola for making this beautiful book to inspire our daughters! ❤

[@rosesanjuan4679]

This was such good news and awesome to learn about this young talented and knowledgeable author and the book for our young in connection with Disney! Thank God 🙏🏼❤️❤️❤️

[@jox831]

Just discovered this book and ordered it immediately as a gift for my niece. Definitely will be on the look out for Fabiolas future books

[@moonrhea7196]

I absolutely love this idea... I think I remember seeing a picture of Teresa of lisu dressed up as Joan of Arc.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

Yup!!! Exactly!!! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@S1CKTR1CKY]

Definitely going to pick this up. Thank you!

[@Undomielllllll]

The book is so beautiful!!! Lovely artist🫶🏻

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

Thank you so much!

[@liraco_mx]

Great book, hope you can do more, Fabiola.

[@FieldofDandelionsJMJ]

I heard about this book from a fellow teacher whose granddaughter loves it. I just ordered two- one for a neighbor who just had a baby girl and one for us (a teenage girl and 9 yr old boy). Thank you for writing and researching for this book! I'm going to share with my Catholic school staff and daycare!

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

Thank you so much!!!

[@creativeinspirations8200]

❤love this! Yes, dolls, toys, stickers, shirts, dress up costumes and later a teen version. God bless you and your efforts.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

Thank you! Yes! That is the dream!!!!!

[@BastianHelena]

Let the bros have their show!

[@amandamendoza2880]

My daughter got it at Easter and she asks me almost every night can we read the "Princess book"? Thank you for this Beautiful book :)

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

That makes me so happy!! Tell her Miss Garza says hi!

[@forsakenmagic]

How awesome!!

[@bernadettegiancarlo6035]

St Adelaide, Empress of Rome would be a good one too. I would invest in this dream to help expand it.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

I’m also organizing a pilgrimage to France next year if you’d like to come!

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

On instagram I'll be posting any gofundme projects that will require donations!

[@lumpichu]

If only somebody published it in our language. It's so limited what we have here. This looks amazing.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

What is your language? I'm planning to send the book to international publishers to see if any of them want to license and translate it! We already got a Portuguese publisher interested!

[@lumpichu]

@@fabiolagarzacreates That's great, thank you! Czech

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

@@lumpichuDo you know which is the largest Catholic Publisher in the Czech Republic?

[@lumpichu]

@@fabiolagarzacreates I'm not sure which of them is larger, probably the first one I mention, but these two come to mind: KatMedia, s.r.o (known as Karmelitánské nakladatelství) and Paulínky.

[@TeddyManthei]

This is pretty cool! I’m also a Catholic author. Writing is fun.

[@vivianpowell1732]

The story of Venerable Henriette DeLille of New Orleans might be an interesting one to consider. Her cause for being declared a Saint is still progressing, but I hope that wouldn't automatically exclude her. If you want to learn more about the life of Henriette DeLille, there is a movie about her starring Vanessa Williams, called "The Courage to Love". The movie is also on KZbin.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

She is definitely on my list of possible stories!

[@CigarsNRoses]

Every girl has that “Imma wear a princess dress to the dentist.” in her deep down lol! It never really goes away ❤️ I sing this to my three daughters every night: “You are a daughter of God. You are a princess. Jesus loves you very much!”

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

I love that!!!

[@emmanuelpichay1808]

I am watching this just now but I just want to say that any children’s book from WOF or Ascension Press should be the present ideal for baby showers or child births. They do great jobs no matter who the authors of each books are

[@soctejedor-qh3kd]

I have her book. Great artist.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

Thank you!

[@Gage805]

Idk if I’m late, but where is father Pagano?

[@withindistruction54]

Can you please answer this question? I saw a video of Bishop Mari Mari talking about how people should not be praying to Mary because the only one who should be prayed to is God. Why would it be wrong to pray to Mary? When she has led many souls to Jesus Christ and God.

[@tbenedict8983]

It is not wrong to pray to Mary. Jesus came through Mary in order to call us to follow Him. The easiest way to be like Christ is to come through Mary as well and ask for her petition to Jesus, let her work with us to become more like Christ and develop virtues. Also Jesus gave us Mary as our Mother at the foot of the cross (in John's gospel), so why should we pass on this amazing loving Mother we were given by our Lord Himself? While praying for Mary's intercession doesn't prevent from praying directly to God, and you should continue to pray to God directly as well. If you want some more infos you can look up for St Louis Grignon de Monfort book to Jesus through Mary or to St Maximilian Kolbe, who wrote a lot about the immaculate heart of Mary. Both recommended total consecration of your life to Mary on order to be closer to Christ. And many other saints did too, like St Bernard of Clairvaux, St Francis of Assisi, etc... God bless you

[@AlexanderSides]

I haven't watched in awhile. Who's the new Padre?

[@jonellstetz356]

Is this book true to the knowledge that the church has about the saints or are there some artistic liberties taken for stories for children?

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

They are historically accurate with some artistic liberties, like Joan has her long hair and is still dressed as a girl when she meets the King, because of the short format it didn't give me time to explain the change. So you only see her with short hair until the Battle. Kateri would have been been baptized inside a church and not a river (as pictured) because I thought it was a better image that captured the feeling. Things like that!

[@Occupied_South]

What is Disney just stopped rewriting classic works to meet DEI, Woke quotas and erasing Western civilization and history?

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

Not all of us agree with the path and choices the higher ups are taking. I don't know how long I will stay with the company but there are many people of faith who work at Disney trying to get their voices heard. We have a group called 3:16 and we are trying to get an official status.

[@SandraSmith-iy6fs]

@@fabiolagarzacreatesthanks for explaining this, as many of us don’t agree with many things Disney is trying to indoctrinate through their cartoons. Maybe God is guiding you through a better path, that aligns with your faith. And through your talent you can help save many young souls. We need more things like this book for our children. ❤ will keep you in my prayers.

[@markjohnson1520]

@@fabiolagarzacreates Sincerely speaking, good luck with your group...talk about mission territory!

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

@@markjohnson1520 It’s no joke. I’ve been blessed with my department. I can decline projects if it conflicts with my faith. And I work on a lot of legacy franchises, so old school stuff

[@tonilynn3179]

​@@fabiolagarzacreatesWe need people of faith on the inside. 😊

[@TheLauraMarieT2]

I was wondering where Fr. Pagano has gone to? I hope he is doing well. 🙏🕊️

[@leticiatapia1159]

Me too! I was surprised to see another priest in his seat.

[@ziesha.marie11]

I’m an artist wanna meet her

[@reeferfranklin]

This is so similar to a dream I have of novelizing the saints throughout history, creating a series of perhaps seven novels (6 covering the 2,000 years since Christ, 1 serving as a prequel of the Old Testament saints) that serves as a sort of modern day legendarium of Christendom, drawing inspiration from great Christian novelists like C.S. Lewis, John Bunyan, J.R.R. Tolkien, John Milton, Dante Alighieri, G.K. Chesterton, Fyodor Dostoyevsky & Leo Tolstoy, and my daughter dreams of turning her favorite Saint stories into comic books that also incorporate the legend, lore & fairy tale creatures of Europe & abroad as Christian allegory, starting with Joan of Arc, heavily calling back to the Merlin connection, etc. I live in Central Florida, perhaps I could work with Fabiola someday...LORD willing. Christ is King! ✝️🟰👑 #ChristIsKing Your Mother misses you... 🙏🏽🌹📿 #PrayTheRosary 📿🌹🙏🏽

[@CrixieOnWheels]

I have a question; why exactly is Jesus still on the cross in Catholicism?

[@CatholicTalkShow]

@@CrixieOnWheels 1 Corinthians 1:23

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

It’s representing the climax of his act of love for humanity.

[@CrixieOnWheels]

@@CatholicTalkShow Well, I know He was crucified, many were, but only Jesus rose from the dead and later ascended to heaven, defeating the power of sin and death to those who believe in who He is and what He did for us.

[@Hezekiah321]

⁠@@CrixieOnWheelsBecause Jesus died for our sins and we should be reminded of the suffering that Jesus was willing to endure for the redemption of humanity. Catholics don’t see weakness in a bloody, beaten-down, crucified Jesus, Catholics see a figure of Jesus on the cross as the ultimate symbol of strength and love. Personally, seeing Jesus on the cross helps me in times of hardship. I’m reminded of how much the Lord loves me, what He endured for me, and gives me a guide on persevering through pain while still loving those who hurt us.

[@christopheranderson7634]

Not sure about Disney.

[@wendellas3420]

No Disney or Target 😢!!

[@auntieg1]

That was my thought. I can’t give money to such an evil company.

[@KathyKelly-mh7pc]

She’s not doing this for Disney. It’s for Word on Fire!

[@wendellas3420]

@@KathyKelly-mh7pc she works for Disney🤣

[@auntieg1]

This book sounds amazing but I can’t purchase a book from a company that is so evil. I’m really confused.

[@dianedavis1676]

I think you misunderstood. This book was published by Bishop Barron 's Word on Fire ministry.. The author has worked for Disney, but the book is in no way affiliated with Disney or Target.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

Yes, it’s not! And I only work on projects that don’t conflict with the faith. I work mostly with existing movies. Cinderella, Beauty and the Beast, etc. There are a lot of people of faith still working at the company trying to influence new projects.

[@MC-qb1jg]

Walt Disney himself was a really strange man.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

How so? I know there are A LOT of conspiracy theories that are not true at all. Surprisingly, for a genius, he was a great Dad and husband. Him and his wife adopted two girls. Just to get it out there, no he was not a Nazi (this one is weird because he literally did anti-Nazi campaign shorts that you can watch on KZbin), or a communist or an anti-semite or a racist. He was raised protestant (I think a presbyterian), and faith wise he was definitely at least a deist.

[@MC-qb1jg]

@@fabiolagarzacreates Anyone who fails to research or educate themselves calls it a conspiracy theory. It's not somewhere I would take my children.

[@karliekrinock6101]

What if Catholics came together and created the stories they want their children to see and know???? We don’t have to rely on Disney!

[@capecape1277]

Good idea. Disney is not producing good content now days, they have forgotten the values of children.

[@alishatruemper9501]

As I've been reading through the Bible, I have written out some stories for my daughter cuz the kids versions leave so much out.

[@chrl4180]

No.

[@lincolnreagan7476]

PLEASE, PEASE, PLEASE, can you please work on cleaning up your advertisers that show up in your i-Tunes feed that opens the show. I just had to listen to a TINDER ad. Really? Stop trying to maximize ad revenue by not paying attention to what gets advertised. I've heard other non-appropriate ads open the show up. You need to do what is available to fix this. Don't be tied to bad money. I don't see it on KZbin, but it happens on I-tunes with your show, but not the other major Catholic podcasters. Clean it up!!!

[@CatholicTalkShow]

@@lincolnreagan7476 we can’t control that unfortunately without leaving the platform…

[@toeknee5565]

Disney employees sure do seem to have a type.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

And what is that pray tell?

[@toeknee5565]

@@fabiolagarzacreates nothing personal, it's just that this project seemed like it was formatted to fit a particular racial/ethno perspective which is mainly what his tired me from a lot of the content Disney's been forcing on society for the past 20 years.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

@@toeknee5565 I think it might be that you are trying to look at the project from the perspective of what Disney has been trying to do rather than just a Catholic who loves history and the universality of the Church. I knew that people would really hone in on the fact that I work for Disney (for the time being) and use that as a way to market it, and I understand that that is a really easy way to get people to click. And obviously I'm trained in a particular art style that people only ever associate with one studio even though several use it. I don't like diversity for diversity's sake. I think that is silly. Which is why I emphasize so much more the diversity of charisms and virtues rather than just the way people look. If it's not for you that is totally okay, and I totally understand how ridiculous and tiring some of the choices departments in Disney are making. I'm happy to DM if you want to chat about anything in particular that I might not be able to discuss in the public square.

[@toeknee5565]

@@fabiolagarzacreates I was really excited when I stared the video but I got puzzled around the time where you were explaining "it's really hard to find good examples of saints in that part /these parts of the world". My natural first question was "then why not use any number of extraordinary examples of women saints from other places where they are abundant and maybe more well-known?". Maybe I am reading too much into it but it seemed like a choice was made to find representations from particular parts of the world first, and then see what was available to write about. I don't mean for this to seem like a personal attack at all, but you're right, part of what drew my attention to click the video in the first place was indeed the association of yours with Disney and through watching the video I started feeling like I was seeing a similar wash cycle that Disney uses.

[@fabiolagarzacreates]

@@toeknee5565 I think you might be reading to much into this, which I totally do when I listen to other things because I too get a knee jerk reaction when I hear DEI brownie point things. I wanted the series to cover the whole world, from the point of the Kingdom of God encompassing every personality, charism and country. It's just of course part of the the research challenge (that I love) to find info on lesser known saints. For instance, I'm soooo excited, I found books on a Saint from Madagascar, but all the books I found are in a different language so I have to get them translated. I just think it's cool to be able to find those things despite there being less available. And I also think its okay to acknowledge that little girls need to see saints, with different personalities, gifts, paths and yes "looks" to know that God has can have a unique path for them too. I don't want to shy away from doing things on the fear that people will think I'm doing some sort of woke thing.