Father John Riccardo, the founder of ACTS XXIX, is teaching Catholic leaders to take evangelization to the next level.
Father John Riccardo may not be a household name, but when a bishop really wants to fire up his flock with a barnstorming, revival-style worship rally, he’s the man for the job.
Several times a year, he can be found crisscrossing the country to headline diocesan events aimed at kicking their evangelization efforts into high gear.
What makes this Michigan priest such a popular speaker?
Simply put, he has a knack for retelling the story of Christianity and getting people to seriously consider it as something true and therefore life-changing.
“I want them to encounter again, and perhaps for the first time, what God’s really done for us and why it is explosive news,” Father Riccardo told the Register.
“I also pray that we would get awakened to the Father’s heart and his desire in creating the human race to be his family,” he said.
That’s the subject of his new book, The Resistance: God’s Plan for Renewing the Human Family, published by Penguin Random House, which reintroduces the story of salvation for modern readers who
