One of the most popular Catholic
novelists in America, Bud grew up in New Jersey in a huge family, was a gifted athlete, is a Notre Dame grad, and has four adult sons—along with a growing bevy of grandchildren. After a miraculous
intervention from the Mother of God in 1991, he started the Ohio-based
Mary Foundation, whose supporters have since distributed tens of millions of highly-effective, super-affordable
tools for evangelization. He recently spearheaded the daring spiritual warfare campaign, the
True Cross Pilgrimage, as part of the
Operation True Cross national prayer movement. In 2024, he initiated the Treasure in Heaven project to help believers become the saints God will use to make America the most Catholic nation on earth. He is also currently writing screenplays for major motion pictures. You can read all his public commentaries
here.
