Catholic Athletes for Christ

09/02/2026

Congrats to our good friend Trevor Williams on being picked up and now in the middle of a pennant race!

God is Good, and those who trust in the Lord will be rewarded!

God Bless this next chapter in your journey, Trevor!

We've signed RHP Trevor Williams to a Major League contract.

08/12/2026

Congrats to one of the founding members of our College Baseball Faith Community, JP Peltier, on his MVP of the Cape Cod Playoffs!

JP will now head off to begin his career with the University of Kentucky, after a standout career at Wright State University!

If you have not heard his conversation with Mike Hoendorf on the Virtuous Athlete Podcast, we encourage you to listen here:
https://open.spotify.com/episode/6kCiurq05JxUMGakR9sIAT?si=O-viq7vvRRaGlPoprbAjzA&utm_source=copy-link

08/11/2026

Love to see a future Showcase participants shining on the big stage! Shoutout to Boone Treadway, son of Badin High School Baseball Head Coach, Brion Treadway! Boone is putting on a show in the Great Lakes Little League Regional! Seen here signaling to his dad in CF as he rounds the bases for his HR!

08/02/2026

Last weekend, members of the Marian chapter of Catholic Athletes for Christ volunteered at the summer picnic at St. Joseph of the Panther Valley in Summit Hill.

07/20/2026

What a blessing to have the Archdiocese of Cincinnati do a feature on the work Mike Hoendorf is doing in the Midwest Region and specifically in the Cincinnati Archdiocese.

Catholic Athletes for Christ (CAC), a national organization serving professional and amateur athletes, is expanding its presence in the Archdiocese of Cincinnati through a new, local missionary focused on helping student-athletes and staff put faith at the center of competition. Based out of Dayton,...

07/12/2026

These three joined us this season for our College Baseball Faith Community with our Midwest Region Director, Mike Hoendorf.
So excited to see these guys now join our professional baseball ministry!
Congrats Gentlemen, your hard work and focus on God’s Will continues!

06/28/2026

https://www.americamagazine.org/features/2026/06/25/major-league-mass-when-chaplains-players-and-staff-gather-for-prayer-ballparks-become-cathedrals/

Masses and other religious services are not what one might expect to find in a baseball stadium—but for many MLB players, they are a Sunday pregame staple.

06/25/2026

Very blessed to have helped A.J. Pierzynski get an audience with Pope Leo XIV.

A.J. presented “the ball“, the Last out from the 2005 World Series, to Pope Leo XIV this morning!

06/24/2026

Owen Hull has been a member of our College Baseball Faith Community all season, and is a special young man with an amazing career ahead of him!

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DZ56G6dRWj5/?igsh=cHIwcGM0YWVhajFm