
There will never be a way to repay Him for His goodness and His grace.


Schmitz was the keynote speaker at the 2022 March for Life rally, an annual pro-life event in Washington, DC. Even before it launched, it had become the number-one ranked podcast on Apple Podcasts. On January 1, 2021, Schmitz and Ascension launched a new podcast, The Bible in a Year, which consists of 365 daily episodes in which he reads and discusses sections of the Bible and adds his own commentary and prayer.

Beginning in 2017, these talks have also been offered as podcasts. Schmitz's videos have covered topics from mixed martial arts to Batman v Superman.
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Since 2015, Schmitz has been the host of Ascension Presents, a YouTube series produced by Ascension Press offering Catholic perspectives on cultural societal issues. In a Steubenville Youth Conference presentation in 2015, and later in his book, Made for Love: Same-Sex Attraction and the Catholic Church, published in 2018, Schmitz alludes to having a sibling who is homosexual. Schmitz is currently the director of youth and young adult ministry for the diocese as well as the Newman Center chaplain at the University of Minnesota Duluth. After spending time as a missionary in South America, Schmitz attended Saint Paul Seminary School of Divinity and was ordained in 2003 for the Diocese of Duluth. According to Schmitz, this encounter "led me down the road to asking God what He wants". ĭespite being brought up in a Catholic family, Schmitz was largely indifferent to religion until an encounter with Christ through Confession at the age of 15. He attended St Francis of the Lakes Catholic School for elementary school, Brainerd High School, and St John's University, where he majored in Theology. Schmitz was baptised on the 1st March 1975 at the Church of the Assumption, Richmond, Minneapolis. Schmitz is of Irish and German descent his paternal grandmother comes from County Cork. The family then relocated to Brainerd, Minnesota, where his father practiced medicine.

Schmitz was born in Oakland, a Chicago neighborhood where his father attended medical school. Mike Schmitz is the fourth of six children, born to Peter Schmitz, an orthopedic surgeon, and Gudrun "Goodie" Schmitz (née Amundsen). Schmitz is a nationally renowned public speaker and makes speeches at Catholic events such as the Fellowship of Catholic University Students leadership summit, Steubenville Youth Conferences, and the Good News Conference. The Director of Youth and Young Adult Ministries in the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota, Schmitz is most notable for his social media presence, which mainly consist of his YouTube videos and The Bible in a Year podcast, both of which are produced by Catholic publisher Ascension Press. Michael Thomas Schmitz (born December 14, 1974) is an American Roman Catholic priest, speaker, author, and podcaster. Cathedral of Our Lady of the Rosary, Duluth, Minnesota
