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The statistics are troubling: 6.5 people leave the Catholic Church for every one that joins, and 50% of young people who were raised Catholic are no longer Catholic today. The Catholic Church is hemorrhaging young people. Behind these statistics are countless stories of wounded families. Millions of mothers and fathers are longing for their prodigal children to come home to the Church, crying: "Where did we go wrong?" The passive wait-and-see approach is no longer an option. We need a different strategy. We need to understand the real reasons why our young people drift away, and we need a game plan to bring them home. We need Return.
Brandon Vogt
Brandon Vogt is the bestselling and award-winning author of thirteen books, including Why I Am Catholic (and You Should Be Too) and the three-volume What to Say and How to Say It series. He is the founder of ClaritasU, an online membership site that trains Catholics to speak clearly and confidently about their faith, especially on hot-button issues. He serves as the senior publishing director for Word on Fire Catholic Ministries.
Vogt is also the founder and chairman of Chesterton Academy of Orlando, a classical high school grounded in the Catholic faith, and the president of the Central Florida G. K. Chesterton Society. He previously cohosted The Word on Fire Show with Bishop Robert Barron and The Burrowshire Podcast with Fr. Blake Britton.
His work has been featured by media outlets including NPR, Fox News, CBS News, EWTN, America magazine, Vatican Radio, Our Sunday Visitor, National Review, and Christianity Today. He has been named one of the "Top 30 Catholics Under 30" and "one of the US Catholic leaders of today" by The Catholic Herald. His books have reached No. 1 on Amazon and have received first-place awards from both the Catholic Media Association and the Association of Catholic Publishers.
He lives with his wife and children on Burrowshire, a small farm outside Orlando, Florida.
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