I am grateful for the untiring efforts that Family Renewal Project undertakes to make the Theology of the Body more widely known and understood. Inspired and directed by their Catholic faith, their efforts bear wonderful fruits in the lives of the faithful. I am happy to endorse Family Renewal Project and recommend their programs to all. I pray God’s blessings upon the team, their mission and ministries!
Most Reverend Shelton J. Fabre
Archbishop of Louisville
Family Renewal Project is providing a wonderful service to the faithful, as all involved with this effort seek to renew family life in our Church and in our culture. These programs are based on solid Catholic teaching, on a clear and accurate Catholic vision of sexuality, and on a deep desire to truly accompany all within our church and beyond. I am pleased to provide this endorsement of Family Renewal Project.
Most Reverend Joseph E. Kurtz, D.D.
Former Archbishop of Louisville, 2007-2022
The importance and centrality of the family with regard to the person and society is repeatedly underlined by Sacred Scripture (Compendium on Catholic Social Teaching). This truth has seemingly been forgotten, or ignored, by much of our contemporary culture. The Family Renewal Project is an important pro-life, pro-family, authentically Catholic ministry which works to support couples and strengthen families, particularly through the teachings of St John Paul II. I support this ministry and pray its work may be replicated throughout the Church.
Most Reverend Salvatore J. Cordileone
Archbishop of San Francisco
Family Renewal Project is addressing one of our most critical needs at this time in human history — renewal of the family. Most of the ills that plague our modern world, Church, and nation are rooted in the breakdown of the family. The tragedy of this is that it not only undermines the basic blueprint for how we live out our lives but it also threatens the joy that God has in store for us if we are willing to embrace His plan. I wholeheartedly endorse the work of Family Renewal Project and pray that it may be abundantly successful.
Bishop Joseph E. Strickland
Family Renewal Project is making important contributions to the New Evangelization in the Bluegrass State and, I hope beyond. This is exactly the kind of lay initiative that St. John Paul II encouraged. It should be replicated throughout the United States as we rebuild a culture of life.
George Weigel
Distinguished Senior Fellow and William E. Simon Chair in Catholic Studies Ethics and Public Policy Center
Biographer of Saint Pope John Paul II
Mary Rice Hasson, JD
Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center | Washington DC
Family Renewal Project is one of the most encouraging signs out there that we as Catholics continue to be a “creative minority” in the ongoing development of human culture. In the midst of a society that is more and more aggressively post-Christian, we can be tempted to complain, withdraw, and become defensive. FRP is a model of the contrary: proactive, courageous, Christ-centered, joyful, entrepreneurial evangelization.
Fr. John Bartunek, LC, SThD
Author, Retreat Leader, and Speaker
Spiritual Advisor on the set of Mel Gibson’s Passion of the Christ and author of Inside the Passion: An Insider’s Look at the Passion of the Christ — the only authorized, behind-the-scenes explanation of the film.
www.RCSpirituality.org
God be praised for the wonderful work being done by Family Renewal Project in Louisville. The rich thought of Pope St. John Paul II has only begun to be mined, for the help of families and married couples. The education programs offered by FRP are badly needed in the Church, as so many adult Catholics are realizing they went through 12 years of Catholic schooling and were robbed of the one thing necessary: the surpassing knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ. May God bless this lay organization and give success to the work of their hands.
Fr. Peter Fegan, O.P.
Former Pastor, St. Louis Bertrand | Louisville, KY
In today’s world, nothing could be more important than understanding, renewing and strengthening families. That’s why I have been so excited to learn about the wonderful work being done by Family Renewal Project and their focus on helping others to learn and live authentic love and responsibility. In addition to serving the spirit through their education and formation programs, they serve in a holistic way by offering psychological services in harmony with the Catholic faith to those good souls who have been wounded by our challenging contemporary culture.
Fr. Charles Sikorsky, LC, JD, JCL
President, Divine Mercy University | Sterling, VA
It was a great pleasure for me to be in Louisville in September 2019 and have the opportunity to share the rich message of Theology of the Body to sold out audiences on two nights. My team and I thoroughly enjoyed our time with the folks behind Family Renewal Project (many of whom are my students). The work they are doing to bring the profound truths of Theology of the Body alive in the hearts of the faithful throughout the Archdiocese of Louisville is critically important. Most especially in these times when the culture is utterly confused about what it means to be a person, there is no greater message – it’s the message of the Gospel, the Good News, the necessary message for the aching heart of every human person.
Christopher West, Th.D.
President, Theology of the Body Institute | Pennsylvania
Family Renewal Project is an excellent resource for anyone wanting to learn about St. John Paul II’s Theology of the Body. It will help anyone live a more authentic Catholic life.
Peter C. Kleponis, PH.D., LPC. SATP, CSAT
Licensed Professional Counselor and Certified Sex Addiction Therapist
Damon Owens
Founder & Executive Director, joytob
Proclaiming the joy to be joytob.com
I was first introduced to Theology of the Body at some point in my seminary years. I dabbled a bit with it, but never read St. John Paul’s writings in their entirety. However, it was something that I could never quite let fade completely into the background. It kept coming back to find me, each time with more light and force. Once, I used part of a study guide from Christopher West with some youth and was amazed to see how much they too found this explanation of the meaning of the human body as nothing less than fascinating. There was power in this fresh, new, profoundly positive approach so far from anything like cold moralistic rulebook. In a TOB mini-course offered by Family Renewal Project it all came together again, crystal clear. This is exactly what our world today needs. We may all be witnesses to how a saint is changing the world with his writings. TOB certainly has world-changing capacities. It changes your idea of what it means to be human.
Father Scott Murphy
Pastor, St. Edward | Louisville, KY
[Former Associate Pastor, St. James | Elizabethtown, KY]
Family Renewal Project seeks to address the deep truth within each of us, that we are made in the image of God. Their programs in education, formation, and counseling nourish the hunger we all have for true communion and love from an authentically Catholic foundation. Meant for any person and focused on the whole person, Family Renewal Project offers a vision of hope for what it means to be truly and fully human.
Father Jeff Shooner
Vicar for Priests, Archdiocese of Louisville
Pastor, St. Patrick & St. Boniface Churches | Louisville, KY
Family Renewal Project is doing the work of God by bringing St. John Paul II’s vision of the human person to the people of Kentucky. This vision has the power to heal, elevate, and inspire generations. I am honored to support their apostolate and encourage others to do so.
Andrew J. Sodergren, MTS, Psy.D.
Clinical Psychologist, Ruah Woods Psychological Services
I very heartily endorse the faith-based counseling services offered at Family Renewal Project/Good Shepherd Institute of the Bluegrass. Catholics (and other Christian clients) will find the Lord and His Grace acting within the excellent clinical services being provided. I greatly encourage all people of Faith to call on FRP/GSIB should they encounter the need for psychological services to address situational &/or longer-term issues. Inviting Jesus into the need for healing of our emotional and interpersonal pain, from qualified professionals who acknowledge His Lordship, is always the right thing to do.
Richard R. Meyer, Psy.D.
Supervising Clinical Psychologist, Good Shepherd Institute of the Bluegrass
*Recently marked his 45th year as a practicing Catholic Clinical Psychologist
I wholeheartedly endorse the good work of Family Renewal Project through which my own parish has already greatly benefited; by instruction, offering professional development days for our teachers and our catechists, through their Theology of the Body education courses which they’ve made possible for members of our parish and with their recent addition of psychological services through Good Shepherd Institute of the Bluegrass — Family Renewal Project is truly affecting a cultural revolution in the Archdiocese of Louisville. May God continue to bless their good efforts.
Sr. Augusta, OP
Dominican Sisters of Saint Cecilia | Nashville, TN
Director of Faith Formation, St. James Parish | Elizabethtown, KY
Family Renewal Project was established in 2016 to help “restore the family and renew the culture by educating and forming men and women to understand, embrace, and live authentic love and responsibility.” We strive to connect persons of all ages with the message of Theology of the Body through various programming and events.
Call: 502.303.1996
Email: [email protected]
Louisville, KY