Patrick Madrid
Patrick
Madrid is the publisher and editor of Envoy magazine, a
Catholic journal of apologetics and evangelization. Since its
inception in 1996, the Envoy team has garnered several
journalism awards, including the coveted first place award in
the magazine-of-the-year “General Excellence” category
from the Catholic Press Association.
Patrick
is the author of several books 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 Answer Me This, as well as editor
of the acclaimed multi-volume Surprised
by Truth series (over 400,000 combined copies in print). He
is a contributor to the forthcoming Ignatius Press Encyclopedia
of Catholic Apologetics. He has also produced many apologetics
tape sets.
Active
in apologetics since 1987, he was the vice president of Catholic
Answers from 1988 through 1995 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, and graduating from El
Toro High School in Lake Forest, CA. His own story, "Conclusions
of a Guilty Bystander," appears as a chapter in his book 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.
He is
the host of three EWTN television and radio series: “Pope
Fiction,” “The
Truth About Scripture and Tradition,” and “Search
and Rescue.” He is also the executive producer of the Envoy
Communications radio program “Right
Here, Right Now.”
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 speaker at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s “Defending
the Faith” summer conferences and is a veteran of over
a dozen formal, public debates with
Protestant ministers, Mormon leaders, and other non-Catholic spokesmen.
He is also an instructor in apologetics at the new Heart
Mind and Soul University for Living.
Cardinal
Edward Egan, 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 Search and
Rescue.”
Patrick and his wife Nancy are in their 24th year of marriage and have been
blessed with eleven healthy and happy children. 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).
You
can contact him at patrick@(nospam)surprisedbytruth.com.
Please visit Envoy magazine's ENCORE
weblog site, where Patrick posts regularly.
Read the
written debate on
sola scriptura between Patrick Madrid and Douglas Jones, editor
of Credenda/Agenda Magazine, a journal of Reformed Protestant thought.
