Patrick Madrid
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Patrick Madrid (born 1960), is an American Roman Catholic author, radio host, apologist, and host of several EWTN television and radio series. He is the author of 14 books on Catholic themes, including the popular Surprised By Truth series of conversion testimony books. He is also the co-founder and editor of Envoy Magazine, a publication focused on orthodox Catholic apologetics and evangelism. He formerly worked as vice president for eight years (1988 through 1995)with Karl Keating at Catholic Answers before launching his own apostolate as an author and seminar presenter in early 1996.
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Patrick Madrid, a Catholic author of many books, is the editor of Envoy magazine, a print and online Catholic journal of apologetics and evangelization. Since its inception in 1996, the Envoy team has garnered several journalism awards, including the several first place awards in the magazine-of-the-year "General Excellence" category from the Catholic Press Association.
Patrick is the author of 14 books on Catholic themes, including Pope Fiction, Any Friend of God’s Is a Friend of Mine, Where Is That In the Bible?, Search and Rescue, Why Is That In Tradition?, and More Catholic Than the Pope (co-authored with Peter Vere), "Does the Bible Really Say That?" and the forthcoming Sola Scriptura: A Blueprint for Anarchy (Servant Books). He is also the editor and co-author of the acclaimed multi-volume Surprised by Truth series of books (with 400,000+ combined copies in print in English and Spanish). He has also produced many apologetics CDs and DVDs.
Active in apologetics since 1987, he was the vice president of Catholic Answers 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. He was raised in the Catholic Faith, growing up in Southern California. His own story, "Conclusions of a Guilty Bystander," appears as a chapter in Surprised by Truth 2.
Patrick earned a bachelor of science degree in business management from the University of Phoenix and has done graduate studies in theology in the IRPS program of the University of Dallas and is currently completing a master's degree in theology at the Pontifical College Josephinum, Columbus, Ohio.
He is the host of four [EWTN] television series: "Pope Fiction," "The Truth About Scripture and Tradition," "Where Is That In the Bible?" and "Search and Rescue." He is also the host of the Thursday edition of EWTN's "Open Line" live call-in radio broadcast (programs archived here: http://www.ewtn.com/vondemand/audio/seriessearchprog.asp?seriesID=6725&T1=open+line).
At the invitation of bishops, priests, DREs, and lay groups, he has conducted hundreds of seminars and conferences, in English and Spanish, at parishes and universities across the United States, as well as throughout Europe, and in Canada, Latin America, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand.
He is a regular presenter at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s "Defending the Faith" summer conferences and has been a guest lecturer in theology at Christendom College in their "Major Speakers" program.
Patrick is also a veteran of over a dozen formal, public debates with Protestant ministers, Mormon leaders, and other non-Catholic spokesmen.
Cardinal Edward Egan, Archbishop of New York, 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 26 years and have been blessed with eleven healthy and happy children and four grandchildren. 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" (Matthew 25:21).
