Father Mike Schmitz, a priest of the Diocese of Duluth, Minn., and a popular speaker and author, is seen in this 2022 promotion for Ascension’s “The Catechism in a Year” podcast, launching Jan. In the 30 days before the news conference, the Bible podcast had reached an audience of 1.5 million people via various electronic devices, such as a cellphone, a tablet with downloaded episodes or YouTube. “Our audience is saying do the same thing for the catechism: ‘We know we should like it, we know we should read it (and) struggle to do so, so help us out.'” Helping the faithful understand and read the Bible with Cavins’ timeline learning system and the podcast format “made such a big difference for accessibility,” she said at a Nov. 1 requested thing from our audience was a ‘Catechism of the Year,” said Lauren Joyce, communications and public relations specialist at Ascension, a multimedia Catholic publisher based in West Chester, Pennsylvania. “We don’t think it’s an accident that after ‘Bible in a Year,’ the No. He and Cavins created the Bible podcast with the backing of Ascension. The reading plan organizes the 14 narrative books of the Bible into 12 periods to help readers understand how they relate to one another and to God’s plan for salvation.Ī priest of the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, Father Schmitz is a popular Catholic speaker and author. Throughout 2022, the priest has hosted the popular “The Bible in a Year” podcast with Scripture scholar Jeff Cavins.įather Schmitz read every verse of the Catholic Bible in 365 days, using a reading plan based on Cavins’ Great Adventure Bible Timeline.

Over the course of 365 daily podcast episodes, Father Mike Schmitz will read the entire catechism. 1, Ascension Press will launch “The Catechism in a Year,” taking listeners through the four parts of the Catechism of the Catholic Church and “providing explanation, insight and encouragement along the way.”

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