Our forthcoming issue of Lay Witness (vol. 36, no. 4) will have an insert with additional Uniting the Faithful Conference information. Please keep a lookout for this issue of Lay Witness. If you are not currently on the Lay Witness mailing list and would like to be on it, please contact us via our contact us page, or by phone at 740-283-2484.
Our Lay Witness newsletter is a quarterly publication intended to assist in the formation of the laity; to examine, in the light of the official teachings of the Church, important issues of concern to Catholics; to help direct and coordinate the efforts of members in carrying on their work.
We are pleased to announce that one of the 220 Our Lady of Guadalupe Authorized Relics of Evangelization will be present at our Uniting the Faithful Conference.
Catholics United for the Faith has made a number of room block reservations at area hotels. Because Franciscan University of Steubenville will be hosting an event on the same weekend, hotel rooms in the area will be in high demand. Therefore, we highly recommend that CUF Conference participants book their hotel accommodations before August 1, 2018. Block reservations have been made at the following hotels for your convenience:
Our president, Philip Gray, was thrilled to sit down with Michael Roberts, host of Living Bread Radio’s Catholic Close Up to discuss the mission of Catholics United for the Faith, what brought Philip to his apostolic work, and our upcoming Uniting the Faithful Conference! Listen to the full interview with no commercials 
O God our Father, who sent Your only-begotten Son to suffer and to give His life for the life of His Church, rule, protect, and nourish her continually, we beseech You. Teach us of Catholics United for the Faith to direct our zeal first of all to the renewal of our own hearts. Then, if it be Your holy will to allow us to be in any way your instruments in the wider renewal of Your Church, give us the grace to know what services, small or great, You ask of us, and let the Holy Spirit teach us to perform them in obedience, patience, and charity, leaving entirely to You what fruits they may bear. We ask this through the same Jesus Christ Your Son, our Lord, who lives and reigns with You in the unity of that Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
We are excited to announce that we will be opening the CUF Archives to our conference guests!
Fr. Joseph was born in Columbus, OH, in 1967 and was raised in Canton, OH. He entered Borromeo College Seminary in 1986 where he earned his Bachelor’s degree in Behavioral Sciences in 1989. In 1990, he professed his first vows as a Capuchin Franciscan friar. Making his Perpetual vows in 1993, he went on to earn his Master’s degree in Theology at the Washington Theological Union in 1995 and was ordained to the priesthood in 1997 in Pittsburgh, PA, by Donald Cardinal Wuerl, now of the Archdiocese of Washington, DC.