Common Sense Faith
Fr. Patrick Brennan, founder and director of the National Center for Evangelization and Parish Renewal, served for more than a decade as Director of the Office of Evangelization of the Archdiocese of Chicago. He continued the emphasis on evangelization as pastor of Holy Family Catholic Community, Inverness, IL, which he made the largest parish in the archdiocese. Fr. Pat is on the faculty of the Loyola Institute of Pastoral Studies, Chicago, Dominican University and several other academic institutions and is the author of many books, including The Mission Driven Parish and Re-Imagining the Parish.