CAC was recently
featured in the National Catholic
Register. NCR's Trent Beattie
highlights CAC's sports ministry
activities and the impact they have on
athletes.
CAC is pleased to announce that Trenton (NJ) Bishop David O'Connell and the 8 Trenton diocesan high schools recently launched CAC Chapter programs for their student-athletes or "Cathletes". If your diocese or school is interested in learning more aout launching a CAC Chapter, please contact Ray McKenna at
ray@catholicathletesforchrist.org or (703) 239-3070.
Please take a few moments to read Bishop O'Connell's message on the CAC Chapter program (click here) and watch a short informational video produced by the Diocese.
CAC and Seton School host 2013 Catholic Sports Conference
CAC welcomes Bishop John Barres of Allentown and Bishop Joseph P. McFadden, of Philadelphia, PA to our Episocopal Advisory Board and congratulates CAC's Bishop Thomas Paprocki on his appointment Pope Benedict 16th as Bishop of Springfield, Illinois.
Monsignor
Stuart Swetland joins CAC Speakers Bureau
and its new Clerical Advisory board.
Monsignor is Vice President for Catholic
Identity and Mission at Mount St. Mary’s.
Father
Groeschel has joined the newly created
CAC Clerical Advisory Board. CAC
is honored and thankful to have Father
Groeschel join with us in our efforts
to evangelize the world of athletics.
CAC
congratulates Mike Piazza on a great career! Mike,
who is a CAC Advisory Board Member, recently
attended the Papal Mass at Nationals Stadium
in DC.
Read about Fr Sean's journey from the baseball diamond to the Church, in the first of many coming articles about priests and other religious in sports!
"CAC's Bishop Paprocki and Saints' Joe Lombardi Inspire Knights of Columbus and Catholic Athletes in Highland, Illinois" - Over 450 men attended the Alton, Illinois Deanery's Men's Breakfast on Saturday, March 19.
"Sport, properly directed, develops character, makes a man courageous, a generous loser, and a gracious victor; it refines the senses, gives intellectual penetration, and steels the will to endurance. It is not merely a physical development then. Sport, rightly understood, is an occupation of the whole man, and while perfecting the body as an instrument of the mind, it also makes the mind itself a more refined instrument for the search and communication of truth and helps man to achieve that end to which all others must be subservient, the service and praise of his Creator."
– Pope Pius XII,
Sport at the Service of the Spirit
July 29, 1945
