Kevin Schmidt

VP of Government Relations at SPP. Catholic. Dad and husband. Duke, Bengals, and Reds fan.

[Kevin Schmidt @Schmidt_SPP]

Almost every single time

[Mike Bales 🫡🇺🇸 @MikeBales]

As a Gen Xer, how many times have you started typing a reply to a post, gotten halfway through, and then realized you just don’t care enough to finish it?

[Kevin Schmidt @Schmidt_SPP]

Most people don’t realize these events are almost 100% volunteer organized and staffed. These are also large fundraisers for parish activities like tuition grants for Catholic schools, school maintenance and upgrades, among other priorities. Let’s do better.

[NBC4 Columbus @nbc4i]

A large fight broke out at St. Catharine Catholic Church during the church’s FunFest celebration, leading to the festival's cancelation for the rest of the weekend. https://t.co/NEC1pfzlr3

[Kevin Schmidt @Schmidt_SPP]

Saving this one for when I forget to take the trash out. Hey, at least I’m not this guy!

[Collin Rugg @CollinRugg]

NEW: Fight between a husband and wife ends with a large chunk of their house missing in Butler County, Pennsylvania.

The damage to the house is so severe that investigators are concerned about the house's structural integrity.

According to local reports, 48-year-old Eric Pierwsza used a Kubota excavator to rip apart the home during a fight with his wife.

"I'd like to know what she said to him because I'll make sure I don't say it. Forty-two years I've been married, but I've never threatened to tear the house down," a neighbor said.

The fight reportedly started after Pierwsza returned home after a night out drinking. His wife told him that their marriage was over.

"If it's over, I'll tear the house down," Pierwsza replied.

He then followed through on his promise and started tearing the house down.

Pierwsza was later arrested.

[Secretary Kennedy @SecKennedy]

I visited Hope Recovery Community in Medina, Ohio to see firsthand how community-based recovery can help people rebuild their lives.

[St Charles Football @StCharlesFball]

#BoE

[St Charles Football @StCharlesFball]

Thank you Eagan Ryan for sponsoring St Charles Football! #BoE

[St Charles Football @StCharlesFball]

Need mulch? 10 days left to order. #BoE

[Kevin Schmidt @Schmidt_SPP]

@BrotherhoodCBB 100%

[Kevin Schmidt @Schmidt_SPP]

Also, don’t fill up their summers with nonsense travel sports so they can chase your dreams. Let their summers be filled with staring at clouds, playing with other kids in the neighborhood, and limited fixed plans. Summers were the best when you had nothing to do.

[CooperBaggs 💰🍞 @edgaralandough]

you only get:
1 summer with them as a baby
3 as a toddler
5 as a child
3 as a preteen
6 as a teen
so let them run barefoot,
turn on the sprinkler,
cut up the watermelon,
chase fireflies under fading golden skies
because the summers of sticky hands, sun tired kids, and slow evenings filled with the sounds of childhood
do not last forever 🤍

[St Charles Football @StCharlesFball]

February ✔️ #BoE

[Kevin Schmidt @Schmidt_SPP]

Well said.

[Curtis Houck @CurtisHouck]

WATCH: ‘CBS Evening News’ anchor @TonyDokoupil on how the gold-medal-winning men’s hockey team and their unabashed patriotism “rang some sort of a bell in America” that “gave people chills, goose bumps, made them cry even” and reminded us that, while “America is a complicated place,” it’s our “home and, therefore, easy to love”.....

“Only in America, a moment that called to mind a picture of this country that it turns out millions of us were missing. I'm talking of course about Sunday's USA hockey game. The men's team won its first Olympic gold and 46 years, beating Canada in overtime and, by now, you've seen the images of Jack Hughes, 24, Florida born who left blood on the ice quite literally before scoring the winning goal and telling a reporter through broken teeth, ‘this is all about our country right now. I love the USA.’ 5,000 miles away, those comments, as much as the win itself, rang some sort of a bell in America. It gave people chills, goose bumps, made them cry even. Countless masses took a social media to say exactly that and more. It was everything about this team. A bunch of guys who played Toby Keith in the locker room celebration, drank beers during the postgame press conference, cheers to you guys, even thanked the troops in another interview. Hughes was even patriotic in his commentary on American health care.”

“They were gracious in victory and big hearted too, bringing to the ice the children of a teammate who was killed 18 months ago by an alleged drunk driver. They were, in short, American and nothing about that fact seemed complicated for them, even though we're all grown ups and we know America is a complicated place. What they remind us is that it is also home and, therefore, easy to love.”

[St Charles Football @StCharlesFball]

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[Hillbilly Catholic @RosaryQuotes123]

Quentin was only 23, when an antifa mob beat him to death for defending women in Lyon, France.

Pray for his soul.

[Kevin Schmidt @Schmidt_SPP]

The only fan base that would purchase this is Indiana's

[Big Ten Football @B1Gfootball]

Get the shirt and let 'em know 😊

🛒: https://t.co/r7ucMfHzBW

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

10 examples of the college football transfer mess:

- The top 10 high school QB recruits in 2024 have transferred colleges a total of 11 times in 2 years. Only 1 is still with his original team.

- Iowa State had 55 players enter the portal and 16 graduate this year. Every starter has left the team besides the kicker. Don’t worry, they have 45 incoming transfers and 25 new high school or JUCO recruits.

- A QB flipped his commitment from Miami to Florida on the promise of a $14 million NIL deal that never came through. He never enrolled and is now on his 4th team.

- Duke had a 2 yr/$8 mil contract with their QB. After his first season there, he decided not to enter the draft and released a video recommitting to the team. Nevertheless, 3 hours before the deadline, he enter the portal and announced a transfer to Miami, leaving Duke flailing. Duke has sued the player.

- An OK St player entered the portal and announced intention to make official visits to multiple teams, including scheduling dates to visit OK St, the school he was already enrolled and playing at.

- Reporter to Miami QB: “what is it like being you as a student (in the week leading up to the national championship?" Beck, who transferred to Miami in 2025, laughed: “No class. I graduated 2 years ago.”

- One player has transferred 6 times, playing for 7 schools: LSU, Auburn, Texas State, Western Kentucky, Tulane, Georgia State, and Incarnate Word.

- Four days after signing a new 1-year, $4+ million exclusive contract with Washington, the QB entered the transfer portal. Washington threatened legal action and the player recommitted to the school.

- UNLV QB claimed he school orally promised $100k of NIL. After a 3-0 start, he had only received $3,000. He quit the team, left the school, and sat out the rest of the season.

- LSU owes Ole Miss $1 million in contract buyout fees after recruiting 2 players in recent weeks. Ole Miss, with an unexpected hole in their roster and $ in their pocket, convinced a player who had just transferred from Cal to Clemson in early January to transfer for the 2nd time in 2 weeks.

[Kevin Schmidt @Schmidt_SPP]

This is good advice.

[Manly Mentor @manly_mentor]

Men,
You need to understand this ‼️‼️

[Bishop Robert Barron @BishopBarron]

As we wrestle in my home state of Minnesota with the fact of deep corruption in the political and economic orders, I want to draw attention to the “social justice” dimension of this problem. Catholic social teaching has a good deal to say about official corruption, insisting that it undermines confidence in our leaders, compromises the integrity of the institutions of government, and subverts the rule of law. But even more importantly, it deeply harms the poor, stealing resources from them, increasing inequality, and blocking essential services such as health and education. And if the widespread fraud in Minnesota is also present in a number of other states, we are dealing with a massive violation of human rights and a heinous attack upon the poor and needy. This should not be a matter of partisan politics. Rather, wherever this corruption exists, it should be fought and those responsible for it brought to justice.

[Chuck Pfarrer | Indications & Warnings | @ChuckPfarrer]

ON FIRE: Sources report that 1.5-1.85 million Iranians have taken to the streets tonight. They are battling security forces in more than 180 cities and 512 locations in all 31 provinces. The protests can now officially be called a revolution.

[Brigham's Burner @FiredUpCoug]

Wild to see so many authoritarian regimes on the brink of collapse right now.

Venezuela
Iran
Cuba
The SEC

Truly unprecedented times.

[Kevin Schmidt @Schmidt_SPP]

When I was in college I met a woman who grew up in East Berlin. I asked her what it was like and she said "we didn't have luxuries like you do, bananas and blue jeans". That comment has always stuck with me.

[Robby Starbuck @robbystarbuck]

This survivor of the Maduro regime should be required viewing for every American and it should be played on every news station in America before anyone forms an opinion about the Venezuela op.