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Mark Pulte, Chairman of The Catholic Initiative, Honored with the 2026 Bowie Kuhn Award
Mark and Julie Pulte receive Legatus’s Bowie Kuhn Award for Evangelization, recognizing their work spreading the Catholic faith through business and philanthropy.
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Pulte Foundation ensures historic Detroit church survives another 200 years, lays path for new model
A new operating model secures the Basilica of Ste. Anne’s future and lays a path other historic parishes can follow.
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The Associated Press: New Father Mike Schmitz Podcast Charts in Top 3 of All New Apple Podcasts
Fr. Mike Schmitz’s latest podcast, produced with The Catholic Initiative and Ascension, debuts among Apple’s top three new shows.
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Catholic News Agency: Father Mike Schmitz to Launch New Podcast on Corporal Works of Mercy
The “Bible in a Year” host returns with a new series on the corporal works of mercy, in partnership with The Catholic Initiative.
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