Be a Witness and Take Courage Among the Wolves, by Joseph Reciniello

By Joseph Reciniello, Catholic Exchange, June 18, 2026

Joseph Reciniello is one half of the radio show The Frontline with Joe & Joe, which airs on Veritas Catholic Network, an EWTN affiliate. He is the author of Catholic Men Will Change America: Advent Reflections from the Frontline. He has a BS from the University of Scranton, an MS from New Jersey City University, and an MBA from St. Peter’s University. He and his wife, Sabryna, reside in New Jersey with their five children: Teresa, Francesco, Matteo, Gerard, and Maria.

St. Peter once said, “You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people of his own, so that you may announce the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light” (1 Pet. 2:9).

Catholics are specifically called to live among the people of the world. We are not to separate ourselves like the Amish or Mennonites. There is a reason for this: “To call others out of darkness into his wonderful light.”

Authentic Witness Changes Hearts

Within each human being there is a spark of the Divine, even in the darkest of people and the hardest of hearts. By the grace of God, encounters with authentic Catholicism can touch or ignite this spark within hardened hearts or within those who have fallen away. There is something inherently convicting about the authentically Catholic witness. This is why Catholics must be an example of and public witness to the Faith. …

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