30th Annual Community Prayer Breakfast
News Release
Fr. Dave Dwyer Will
Speak at Prayer Breakfast
Nobody's Perfect: Share Your Faith Anyway
Battle Creek, Mich. Ð
Father Dave Dwyer, CSP, is Director of Busted Halo®, a ministry and media outreach to Catholics in their twenties and thirties created by the Paulist Fathers.
He is the publisher of BustedHalo.com®, a daily, faith-based web magazine for young adult spiritual seekers, as well as the host of “The Busted Halo® Show with Father Dave Dwyer,” a call-in radio talk show airing five nights a week on Sirius XM satellite radio on which he answer listeners’ questions about faith and the Church for more than twenty million subscribers (7-10 p.m. Eastern time on The Catholic Channel, Sirius 159 / XM 117).
Father Dave is frequently invited to speak to parishes, dioceses and ministry organizations around the U.S. and in Canada about reconnecting young adults to the Catholic Church.
He has offered commentary on or been profiled by NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams, Fox & Friends, CNN, The New York Times, The Today Show, The History Channel, Newsweek, The Washington Times, WCBS-TV and The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.
Father Dave has previously served in campus ministry at the University of Colorado and the University of Texas, and worked with the Archdiocese for the Military Services, USA, to develop and produce a multi-media young adult peer ministry program called Catholics Seeking Christ.
He is popular with young adults because of his dynamic and relevant preaching in person and downloaded as podcasts.
He was ordained a Paulist priest in May 2000, but prior to answering the call to priesthood he produced and directed television programs for MTV and Comedy Central, and as an on-air personality for a hit music radio station, he was known to listeners as “Happy Dave.”
He holds a Masters of Divinity from the Catholic University of America and a Bachelor of Science degree in communication from Syracuse University.
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