BIO

Patrick Madrid is the publisher of Envoy Magazine, a journal of contemporary Catholic thought, and the director of the Envoy Institute of Belmont Abbey College. Since its inception in 1996, the Envoy team has garnered numerous journalism awards, including several first-place awards in the magazine-of-the-year “General Excellence” category from the Catholic Press Association.

Patrick is the author or editor of 14 books and booklets on Catholic themes including, Pope Fiction, Search and Rescue, Does the Bible Really Say That?, and 150 Bible Verses Every Catholic Should Know. He edited and co-authored the acclaimed multi-volume Surprised by Truth series (over 500,000 combined copies in print in English and Spanish).

He has published numerous popular articles on Scripture, Church history, patristics, apologetics, and evangelization in various Catholic and Protestant periodicals, and he has contributed scholarly articles on apologetics in the New Catholic Encyclopedia.

Active in apologetics since 1987, he served as vice president of Catholic Answers for eight years (from January 1988 to January 1996) and helped co-found that apostolate's flagship magazine, This Rock, in January of 1990.

Patrick is a cradle-Catholic, not a convert. By God's grace, he was raised in the Catholic Faith and has been a practicing Catholic his entire life.

Growing up in Southern California, he attended grammar school at the Mission San Juan Capistrano parish school, where for years he served as an altar boy for the parish's daily Traditional Latin Mass in the famed Serra Chapel. Ever since his boyhood, Patrick has loved the Traditional Latin Mass.

Patrick earned a bachelor of science degree in business from the University of Phoenix and a bachelor of philosophy degree (B.Phil.) from the Pontifical College Josephinum in Columbus, Ohio, where he is completing a master's degree in dogmatic theology. He has also done graduate studies in theology at the University of Dallas.

He is the host of four EWTN television series, including “Pope Fiction” and “Search & Rescue,” and he hosts the Thursday edition of EWTN Radio's “Open Line” broadcast, heard on approximately 150 AM & FM stations across the United States, as well as on the Sirius Satellite Radio Network (Thursdays from 3:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. ET). He is also a regular guest on the Sirius Radio's "The Catholic Channel."

Patrick serves on the board of trustees of the Dominican School of Philosophy and Theology in Berkeley, CA, on the board of directors of St. Gabriel Catholic Radio, in Columbus, Ohio, and on the board of advisors for Catholics United for the Faith, Immaculate Heart Radio Network, and Catholic Scripture Study International. He authored all the original website content for CatholicsComeHome.org, where he also serves as a theological advisor. He was a founding board member of the Catholic Marketing Network.

Patrick has conducted thousands of seminars on Catholic themes, in English and Spanish, at conferences, parishes, and universities across North America, as well as throughout Europe, and in Latin America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.

He is a regular presenter at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s “Defending the Faith” summer apologetics conferences and has been a guest lecturer in theology at Christendom College in their “Major Speakers” program.

Patrick is also a veteran of a dozen formal, public debates with Protestant ministers, Mormon leaders, and other non-Catholic apologists.

Cardinal Edward Egan, the former Archbishop of New York, recently commented on the effectiveness of Patrick's approach to apologetics saying, “How do you bring a friend or relative back into the Church? First you pray. Then, you follow Patrick Madrid's advice in [his book] Search and Rescue.”

Patrick and his wife Nancy have been married for 29 years and have been blessed with eleven healthy and happy children and seven grandchildren (and one on the way).

Their most important goal as a couple is to one day hear the Lord Jesus say to them and their children, “Well done, good and faithful servants; you have been faithful over a little . . . now enter into the joy of your master” (Matt. 25:21).

Contact him at patrick at patrickmadrid dot com.

Visit Patrick's blog at: http://patrickmadrid.blogspot.com

Follow Patrick on Twitter: http://twitter.com/patrickmadrid

Basking in the presence of his five lovely daughters on Father's Day 2008.