A bit more about Medjugorje
In my recent YouTube rant about Pope Francis's comments about Medjugorje and the Ruini Commission, I mentioned Donal Foley's fine book on the whole phenomenon, Medjugorje Revisited. If you're interested in this story at all, especially [...]
Father Solanus Casey — Priest, Prophet, and Porter
BY PCM | ORIGINAL SOURCE: National Catholic Register The next time you run into failure or setback, turn to Father Solanus, the patron saint of apparent failure and setbacks. He knows all about it. If [...]
An eclectic week in the news
This past week has been the picture of eclectic news items. Paris, France: Marine LePen (never described in the media without the prefix “far right” or “firebrand”) lost the French presidency to Emmanuel Macron, a [...]
Easter: Tomb as Womb
BY PCM | ORIGINAL SOURCE: National Catholic Register The Resurrection is not a metaphor for the need to “rise above” life's difficulties or a well-meaning myth about fulfillment. Rather, Christ's resurrected body is a solid [...]
Transformed By Beauty ebook
The good people at Covenant Eyes have produced a thought-proving four-part ebook titled Transformed By Beauty, which points toward the antidote for compulsive (or causal) porn use. Edited by Sam Guzman and Amanda Zurface and strung [...]
Four Takeways from the Holy Land
I just got back from a 12-day pilgrimage to the Holy Land with 30 on-fire Christians including our spiritual director Monsignor Charles Pope of Washington DC. And what a trip it was. Bathed in the [...]
Father Michael Scanlan, a man in full
The news a moment ago that Father Michael Scanlan, TOR -- my beloved former boss and the president emeritus of Franciscan University of Steubenville has died -- brought with it a flood of Holy Spirit-tinged [...]
About Me
Ciad mile failte! That’d be Gaelic for “one hundred thousand welcomes,” the motto of my beautiful home province of Nova Scotia.
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"Patrick Coffin possesses a unique combination of energy, insight and wit, along with years of professional experience. He makes an important and unique contribution to the New Evangelization."
– Scott Hahn, PhD
Professor of Scripture and Theology, Franciscan University
Founder and Director, Saint Paul Center
"Patrick Coffin’s contribution to the Church’s engagement with the media is as excellent as it is urgently needed. He is both passionate about communicating the Faith and fluent in the vernacular of our culture."
– Raymond Cardinal Burke
Former Prefect,
Supreme Apostolic Signatura
Patron, Sovereign Military Order of Malta
Rome, Italy
"Patrick Coffin is like no one I’ve ever met. He’s an extraordinary radio host, a common sense intellectual, a filmmaker, and an a everyday comedian. Patrick is a rare gem and a gift to the Church."
– Patrick Lencioni
CEO The Table Group
Best-selling author of The Advantage and Death By Meeting
"The new evangelization means, first of all, knowing your audience and finding a way to connect with them. This makes Patrick Coffin a new evangelist in spades. He presents the Catholic Faith in a way that mixes ancient wisdom with modern wit."
– Bishop Robert Barron,
Auxiliary Bishop of Los Angeles
Director, “Word On Fire” Catholic Ministries
"Patrick Coffin is a robustly engaging, funny and delightful radio host and speaker. He knows all things Catholic and it is always a joy and honor for me to appear on the air with him. Highly recommended."
+ Bishop James Conley
Diocese of Lincoln, NB
"Patrick Coffin is one of the best interviewers and most knowledgeable persons I know when speaking about the Catholic faith or almost anything. Not only is he good at what he does—and he does so much—but he is good at who he is, a true disciple of Jesus and loyal son of the Church."
– Dr. Ralph Martin
President, Renewal Ministries
Professor, Sacred Heart Major Seminary
Archdiocese of Detroit
"Patrick is delightful to work with: quick with the quips, armed with information, and ready to verbally spar at a moment’s notice — an engaging and lively interviewer and host!"
– Fr. Tad Pacholczyk, PhD
Director of Education
National Catholic Bioethics Center
Philadelphia, PA
"We have no one like Patrick Coffin in Britain: I wish we had. His calm, reassuring tone of voice, and pertinent, intelligent questions, are such a pleasant contrast to the impatient, aggressive interviews on the secular media."
– Piers Paul Read
Member, Royal Society of Literature
Award-winning author of Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors. Official biographer of Sir Alec Guinness
"There are few real stand-outs in the media. Patrick is one of them. He knows that he’s not competing with other Christian broadcasters but with the very best in the secular sphere out there. He’s professional, funny, and sharp."
– Dr. Pia De Solenni
Associate dean
Augustine Institute
Orange County campus, CA
"Patrick Coffin is part of a growing and increasingly successful effort to engage with religious matters in a manner that is evidently relevant to the modern world, unmoored from its foundations as it has become."
– Dr Jordan Peterson
Professor of Psychology
University of Toronto
"Patrick Coffin is a communicator. His love of his faith, his sense of truth and his agile mind enable him to take the Catholic faith into the marketplace of ideas in a most engaging way."
– Julian Porteous DD
Archbishop of Hobart
Australia