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Host of media platform Ascension Presents Fr Mike Schmitz has brought his Parables Tour to Ireland, filling a church with mostly young adults to maximum capacity and speaking to 1,600 attendees at the Dublin National Stadium – with bishops pointing to a renewed interest in the Faith amongst young people.

Fr Schmitz hosts the Bible in a Year Podcast, which has consistently garnered high ratings since its launch in 2021, becoming iTunes’ most popular podcast for multiple days in 2021 and 2022. Ascension Presents has more than 1.3 million subscribers on YouTube. His Parables Tour last year sold out across the US and Ireland.

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