JonMarc Grodi

Married Catholic Father of 6, Executive Director of the @CHNetwork, host of The Journey Home on @EWTN, intemperately obsessed w/the Cardinal Virtues. +AMDG+

[Coming Home Network @chnetwork]

It can be easy to let life happen to us, without ever slowing down and taking the time to reflect on the meaning of our actions and experiences.

@JonMarcGrodi shares how the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius of Loyola can help us be more intentional: https://t.co/HQg4zSmPKh

[Coming Home Network @chnetwork]

Every Monday at 4:30ET (today!) we pray the Rosary w/art on Zoom; this is especially for converts new to it, or even curious folks who've never prayed it before at all.

If that's you, we'd love to have you!

Takes about 20 minutes, here's a link to join: https://t.co/qdGfnpWbCg

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

Pope Francis described the practice of the "Daily Examen" as "re-reading your day with Jesus".

Take time every night to reflect on what happened that day: be grateful for the blessings, repent of and learn from the mistakes.

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

So who became Catholic on Easter Vigil this year?

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This side of heaven, every Christian remains a person ON THE JOURNEY.

God isn't done with us yet.

[Matt Swaim @mattswaim]

On Mondays at 4:30PM ET (today!), we pray the Rosary w/art in the @chnetwork Online Community.

This is especially for converts/inquirers/others who are new to the Rosary.

We'd love to have you!

Join via the Online Community, or message me for the link: https://t.co/46j5s9eITm

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

To REASON means to use your intellectual faculty to genuinely seek the truth.

To RATIONALIZE means to use your intellectual faculty to come up with a rationale for the conclusion you've already jumped to.

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

Pride & Despair are self-narratives that that feed into one-another.

Humility is the antidote to both precisely because it is the surrender of all of your narratives — those self-aggrandizing & those despairing.

Humility turns to God and asks: "Who do YOU say that I am, Lord?"

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

It is easy to think of conversion to Catholicism as entirely an intellectual journey — getting all the doctrines and apologetics squared away and becoming convinced of the truth.

But we know this is only a part of the journey — perhaps a small part.

The real journey is, of course, putting your faith into action — living it out, step by step, even after the initial exhilaration of discovery and decision has subsided — and being changed (by grace) in the process.

The Christian journey is about growing in:

— Daily determined prayer
— Embrace of the grace of the sacraments
— Fidelity to your vocational responsibilities/opportunities
— The virtues of Prudence, Justice, Courage, Temperance, Faith, Hope, and Charity

The Journey is about denying yourself, picking up each new cross, and faithfully following Jesus — and allowing Him to heal and restore you to the person He created you to be.

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

@CocoHollyA Aw praise God! Thanks for watching!

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

John Knutsen was raised Catholic, but after his brother died of AIDS, he became an atheist. He even remembers accepting a Bible from a street evangelist, and tearing out the pages in anger as he walked away.

He shares the powerful story of his return to faith:

https://t.co/YyHKHqM2wa

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

To REASON means to use your intellectual faculty to genuinely seek the truth.

To RATIONALIZE means to use your intellectual faculty to come up with a rationale for the conclusion you've already jumped to.

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

It is easy to think of conversion to Catholicism as entirely an intellectual journey — getting all the doctrines and apologetics squared away and becoming convinced of the truth.

But we know this is only a part of the journey — perhaps a small part.

The real journey is, of course, putting your faith into action — living it out, step by step, even after the initial exhilaration of discovery and decision has subsided — and being changed (by grace) in the process.

The Christian journey is about growing in:

— Daily determined prayer
— Embrace of the grace of the sacraments
— Fidelity to your vocational responsibilities/opportunities
— The virtues of Prudence, Justice, Courage, Temperance, Faith, Hope, and Charity

The Journey is about denying yourself, picking up each new cross, and faithfully following Jesus — and allowing Him to heal and restore you to the person He created you to be.

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

We are Catholic both because the Catholic Church teaches truth but also because she forms her members in the habits of soul — virtues — that ensure a fruitful relationship with truth.

Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life.

It is not enough to know Him — we must follow.

[Catholic News Agency @cnalive]

Speaking about Catholic conversions, The Coming Home Network’s JonMarc Grodi said the Church is offering people “a solid foundation, a place to go where they can have a right relationship to truth, and to seek the truth.” https://t.co/Cf9YsBTTfj

[Catholic News Agency @cnalive]

Speaking about Catholic conversions, The Coming Home Network’s JonMarc Grodi said the Church is offering people “a solid foundation, a place to go where they can have a right relationship to truth, and to seek the truth.” https://t.co/Cf9YsBTTfj

[Kenny Burchard @KennyBurchard]

Catholicism is simply what a 2000 year old organism would look like if she had her whole and collective memory intact and continued her journey through an unbroken history wholly and fully as herself.

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

Appreciated this opportunity to talk to @EWTNews about the rise in converts to the Catholic Church and the ways that we're privileged to help disciple many of them over at the @chnetwork — especially Protestant pastors and laypeople whom the Holy Spirit is drawing HOME!

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Many U.S. dioceses have experienced heavy increases in people joining the Catholic Church around Easter this year, as adult conversions soar in the nation. Some dioceses have even seen record-high numbers of unbaptized people becoming Catholic.

“We’ve seen this great rise the last couple of years, and it’s really intriguing. It’s really joyful,” said JonMarc Grodi, executive director of The Coming Home Network and host of EWTN’s “The Journey Home,” in an interview with “EWTN News Nightly.”

The Ohio-based organization’s mission is “to help non-Catholic Christians, clergy and laity, discover the truth and beauty of Catholicism and to make the journey home to full communion with the Catholic Church.”

The organization is seeing “a huge increase” in numbers of people joining the Church “across the board,” Grodi said.

“Here at The Coming Home Network … we’re working in particular with people who are on that journey, who are asking questions, who are looking for help,” Grodi said. “And over the past years, we saw a 50% increase in the number of Protestant pastors who reached out to us for help in becoming Catholic.”

The network reaches thousands of people seeking information and support through a number of resources, including its Clergy Convert Conference, which specifically invites former Protestant and other non-Catholic Christian pastors and ministers who have become Catholic or who are preparing to enter the Church.

Following a successful first conference in 2025, the network and the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology will host a second gathering May 1–3 in Steubenville, Ohio.

It’s a “pretty wide demographic” of those joining the Catholic Church, as it “is not just a local phenomenon,” Grodi said. “This is around the U.S. and around the world.”

“I think 20-30 years ago we were seeing a lot of relatively older, more well-educated, more doctrinally interested people. Nowadays, I think we’re seeing … a much wider demographic interest in the Catholic Church for all sorts of reasons.”

There are also “a lot of people who were brought up or who were born Catholic coming back to the Church,” he said.

“Oftentimes people who were brought up Catholic and leave, it’s hard to bring them back because they think that they already get it, they already know what Catholicism is,” Grodi said. But, “there’s a renewed visibility of Catholic identity that is drawing people who were brought up Catholic back home.”

Grodi said the reasons are “all over the place” as to why so many are converting to the Catholic faith but noted “there’s a great desire for Jesus in the holy Eucharist.”

“We have an increase in noise in the world, and people are looking for a solid foundation, a place to go where they can have a right relationship to truth, and to seek the truth. I think also there have been things that have broken down barriers to people considering the Catholic Church,” he said.

Pope Leo XIV may be helping to inspire people with “his very visible, clear witness to Catholic identity, as well as a lot of notable public conversions that I think have broken down the walls for some people to consider Catholicism,” he said.

“When it gets down to the individual person though, I think so many people are looking for the sacraments. They’re looking for these great gifts from God of his presence, where he promises to show up and be with us in the midst of all the noise,” Grodi said.

“The Church, guided by the Holy Spirit with Scripture, tradition, and the magisterial teaching authority of the Church, gives people a place to come bring their questions and to seek answers and to trust that there’s been 2,000 years of this tradition of seeking truth,” Grodi said.

https://t.co/AVTqbsnKWy

[EWTN News @EWTNews]

Many U.S. dioceses have experienced heavy increases in people joining the Catholic Church around Easter this year, as adult conversions soar in the nation. Some dioceses have even seen record-high numbers of unbaptized people becoming Catholic.

“We’ve seen this great rise the last couple of years, and it’s really intriguing. It’s really joyful,” said JonMarc Grodi, executive director of The Coming Home Network and host of EWTN’s “The Journey Home,” in an interview with “EWTN News Nightly.”

The Ohio-based organization’s mission is “to help non-Catholic Christians, clergy and laity, discover the truth and beauty of Catholicism and to make the journey home to full communion with the Catholic Church.”

The organization is seeing “a huge increase” in numbers of people joining the Church “across the board,” Grodi said.

“Here at The Coming Home Network … we’re working in particular with people who are on that journey, who are asking questions, who are looking for help,” Grodi said. “And over the past years, we saw a 50% increase in the number of Protestant pastors who reached out to us for help in becoming Catholic.”

The network reaches thousands of people seeking information and support through a number of resources, including its Clergy Convert Conference, which specifically invites former Protestant and other non-Catholic Christian pastors and ministers who have become Catholic or who are preparing to enter the Church.

Following a successful first conference in 2025, the network and the St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology will host a second gathering May 1–3 in Steubenville, Ohio.

It’s a “pretty wide demographic” of those joining the Catholic Church, as it “is not just a local phenomenon,” Grodi said. “This is around the U.S. and around the world.”

“I think 20-30 years ago we were seeing a lot of relatively older, more well-educated, more doctrinally interested people. Nowadays, I think we’re seeing … a much wider demographic interest in the Catholic Church for all sorts of reasons.”

There are also “a lot of people who were brought up or who were born Catholic coming back to the Church,” he said.

“Oftentimes people who were brought up Catholic and leave, it’s hard to bring them back because they think that they already get it, they already know what Catholicism is,” Grodi said. But, “there’s a renewed visibility of Catholic identity that is drawing people who were brought up Catholic back home.”

Grodi said the reasons are “all over the place” as to why so many are converting to the Catholic faith but noted “there’s a great desire for Jesus in the holy Eucharist.”

“We have an increase in noise in the world, and people are looking for a solid foundation, a place to go where they can have a right relationship to truth, and to seek the truth. I think also there have been things that have broken down barriers to people considering the Catholic Church,” he said.

Pope Leo XIV may be helping to inspire people with “his very visible, clear witness to Catholic identity, as well as a lot of notable public conversions that I think have broken down the walls for some people to consider Catholicism,” he said.

“When it gets down to the individual person though, I think so many people are looking for the sacraments. They’re looking for these great gifts from God of his presence, where he promises to show up and be with us in the midst of all the noise,” Grodi said.

“The Church, guided by the Holy Spirit with Scripture, tradition, and the magisterial teaching authority of the Church, gives people a place to come bring their questions and to seek answers and to trust that there’s been 2,000 years of this tradition of seeking truth,” Grodi said.

https://t.co/AVTqbsnKWy

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

To all of the newly confirmed Catholics who joined the Church this past Easter weekend: WELCOME HOME from all of us at the @chnetwork!

[JonMarc Grodi @JonMarcGrodi]

To all of the newly confirmed Catholics who joined the Church this past Easter weekend: WELCOME HOME from all of us at the @chnetwork!