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Catholic trainer merges faith and fitness in theology of the body-inspired program

By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Jun 28, 2025 / 07:00 am In 2019, Chase Crouse was working two jobs — in ministry at the Archdiocese of New York and as a personal trainer. He quickly realized that while he loved working with people at the gym, he hated not being …
Catholic gym trains members to become ‘warriors against the evil one’

By Francesca Pollio Fenton CNA Staff, Sep 29, 2023 / 08:00 am In 2020, after the COVID-19 pandemic and a storm wreaked damage on his town of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Joe Enabnit opened St. Michael Barbell Club in what he calls “a leap of faith.” The gym’s mission is “to make strength training …
Bishop Paprocki explores link between physical and spiritual fitness in new book

by Jonah McKeown Denver Newsroom, Apr 5, 2021 / 04:16 am MT (CNA).- Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois doesn’t generally introduce himself as a runner. His first love is hockey, which, at nearly 70 years old, he still plays regularly. He even coaches the goalkeepers at a local Catholic …