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About Kathy Schiffer
Kathy Schiffer has written for the National Catholic Register, Aleteia, Zenit, the Michigan Catholic, Legatus Magazine, and other Catholic publications. She’s worked for Catholic and other Christian ministries since 1988, as radio producer, director of special events and media relations coordinator. Kathy and her husband, Deacon Jerry Schiffer, have three adult children.
The Dispatch

How the Olympic Committee violated its own Charter

July 27, 2024 Kathy Schiffer 16

The Opening Ceremony for the 2024 Paris Olympics was unlike the traditional ceremonies of the past. We’ve come to expect a display of talent–music and dance–licking off the week’s events. Following the opening acts, a […]

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Popular broadcaster Mike Rowe extols virtue of patriotism in new film

June 26, 2024 Kathy Schiffer 14

American heroes come in all shapes and sizes: A President who disregards the advice of his attorney general to rescue captive military forces. A fourteen-year-old youth who forges his mother’s signature to join the military […]

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Convert, author, and noted radio host Al Kresta succumbs to liver cancer

June 15, 2024 Kathy Schiffer 8

Al Kresta, host of the nationally syndicated talk show “Kresta in the Afternoon” on Ave Maria Radio and the EWTN radio network, has gone to his eternal reward at age 73. His illness was brief, […]

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“The Chosen” announces launch date for Season Four streaming

June 1, 2024 Kathy Schiffer 24

Editor’s note: Due to a miscommunication, another piece about “The Chosen” was posted yesterday. Here is the correct posting. We apologize for the error. Finally! After a months-long wait, fans of The Chosen will soon be able […]

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New Catholic college to launch in South Carolina in Fall 2024

May 15, 2024 Kathy Schiffer 4

Greenville, South Carolina, a scenic city in the foothills of North Carolina’s Saluda Mountains, is growing rapidly. And so is the Catholic population in the area, as local parishes swell with new members, both with […]

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Supreme Court opens discussion about the abortion drug mifepristone

March 26, 2024 Kathy Schiffer 10

As the U.S. Supreme Court hears oral arguments this week regarding the abortion drug mifepristone, the justices attention will include a focus on decisions made by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2016 and […]

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“I like to do things that inspire people to dig a bit deeper.”

March 14, 2024 Kathy Schiffer 7

“I always say, ‘I hope God’s a movie fan!’” Mark Wahlberg’s humor was evident in our recent conversation about his career, his family and his faith, and about his latest film, Arthur the King. “I […]

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The power of a woman’s voice: Alejandro Monteverde reflects on Mother Cabrini

February 12, 2024 Kathy Schiffer 5

“The world is too small for what I intend to do.” – Francesca Cabrini Alejandro Monteverde, the award-winning director of Sound of Freedom and Bella, had never heard of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini when he […]

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Times Square billboards “Light the World” with the Nativity story

December 30, 2023 Kathy Schiffer 5

It was business-as-usual in New York’s Times Square on the evening of November 27, 2023. Bustling crowds hurried home from work or out to their favorite restaurant, or perhaps began their Christmas shopping. Taxis honked, […]

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Convert and priest reflects on the gift and mission of “putting together”

December 14, 2023 Kathy Schiffer 2

In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus shared the parable of the talents with his disciples. The foolish man, afraid of losing the talent his employer had given him, buried it in the ground; while others […]

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