Shannon Kurtz grew up in Bay City, MI as one of six children in an devout Irish Catholic family. Fully immersed in the Catholic school and parish life, Shannon loved
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I was bored with the Catholic Church! All I did was daydream through Mass and my catechism classes. When I was 10, my parents stopped going to Mass, but my father would still drop off my sister and I at the church.
Frank Cronin spent his life through his first year in college in Catholic educational institutions, though, for the most part, it was a cultural rather than spiritual endeavor. Working and
Kenneth Cramer, grandson to Italian immigrants, grew up in Chicago. Though nominally Catholic, there was not much offered as foundation in the faith. In fact, an abusive father directly attributed
A former contestant on “America’s Next Top Model”, Leah Darrow, had a happy childhood growing up in a Catholic household on a beautiful farm in Oklahoma. As the oldest of six
“I was fighting so many demons that I lost track of where they came from and how they were manifested. I became enslaved to spiritual poverty, sexual depravity, and a greed for money that would take its toll on my emotions and psyche for years to come. Everything in life seemed easily disposable, especially my money, which I spent lavishly to maintain my steady diet of alcohol and drugs that would salve my emotional pain.”
Dr. Anthony Caruso, a reproductive endocrinologist, joins Marcus in reflecting on his faith journey which began in Boston in the early post-Vatican II days. A son of Italian and Irish
A 27-year-old graduate student of philosophy at Franciscan University of Steubenville, JonMarc resides in Steubenville, OH, with his wife Teresa and two young children. While completing his undergraduate degree at
Growing up in New Jersey as one of six children in an outwardly devout Catholic family, Judy Hehr found herself in a disconnect of “not having their theology and reality
Charles Wadlow grew up in Seattle in a blended family of five, with a mother who was Southern Baptist and a Catholic father who was born in England. The result
EWTN radio host and regional marketing manager, Ron Meyer, joins Marcus in sharing his faith journey. Growing up for the first seven years in an Italian-Catholic neighborhood in the Bronx,
My return to the Catholic Church after twenty years away as an Evangelical Protestant was my heart’s response to Jesus, as He drew me back into full communion with His Church and complete union with Him in the Holy Eucharist.
I was baptized Shannon Mary Kelly, oldest of six children of an Irish-Catholic family in Bay City, Michigan. I made my First Confession and First Communion when I was eight years old. I remember how very close to Jesus I felt as I received Holy Communion for the first time.
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