Patrick Madrid is the publisher of Envoy magazine, a Catholic journal of apologetics and evangelization. Since its inception in 1996, the Envoy team has garnered several journalism awards, including the coveted magazine-of-the-year “General Excellence” award from the Catholic Press Association.
Patrick is the author of several books including, Pope Fiction, Any Friend of God’s Is a Friend of Mine, Where Is That In the Bible?, Search and Rescue, Why Is That In Tradition?, as well as editor of the acclaimed Surprised by Truth series. He is a contributor to the forthcoming Ignatius Press Encyclopedia of Catholic Apologetics. He has also produced many apologetics tape sets.
Active in fulltime apologetics since the late 1980s, he was the vice president of Catholic Answers from 1988-1995 and helped co-found that apostolate's flagship magazine, This Rock, in January of 1990.
Patrick is not a convert; he was raised in the Catholic Faith, growing up in Southern California. He earned a bachelor of science degree in business management from the University of Phoenix and has done graduate studies in theology in the IRPS program of the University of Dallas. His own story of recommitment to Christ, "Conclusions of a Guilty Bystander," appears in Surprised by Truth 2.
He is the host of two EWTN television and radio series: “Pope Fiction” and “The Truth About Scripture and Tradition,” and is the executive producer of the Envoy Communications radio program “Right Here, Right Now.”
At the invitation of bishops, priests, DREs, and lay groups, he has conducted hundreds of seminars and conferences, in English and Spanish, at parishes and universities across the United States, and abroad. He is a regular speaker at Franciscan University of Steubenville’s “Defending the Faith” summer conferences, and he's a veteran of over a dozen formal public debates with Protestant ministers, Mormon leaders, and other non-Catholic spokesmen.
Patrick and his wife Nancy have been blessed with eleven healthy and happy children. Their most important goal as a couple is to one day hear the Lord Jesus say to them and their children, “Well done, good and faithful servants; you have been faithful over a little . . . now enter into the joy of your master” (Matt. 25:21).
The "surprise" here is that he can find the time to write, lecture, maintain a blog ... and, occasionally post to FreeRepublic!
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