NCRegister features Fr. Heilman's new book

Father Rick Heilman wants to challenge Catholics to a boot camp in 2013 — a Church Militant boot camp.

His use of military imagery to promote a strong devotional life has a purpose: to unite Catholics as spiritual warriors under the supernatural power of God.

This is precisely his reason for developing ChurchMilitant.com, along with a book of the same name and other tools that promise to assist in reawakening faith, battling evil and rescuing souls.

"In the U.S. Army, the first goal is to get everyone working and functioning as a team, so they can accomplish the goals and training before them," says Father Heilman. "That draws from St. John the Baptist, who said he [God] must increase, while I must decrease. That is what military training really is all about: that nobody is trying to stand out, but they work together as a fighting force of warriors — but as warrior saints."

Father Heilman founded the Knights of Divine Mercy men’s apostolate in his parish, St. Mary’s Catholic Church in Pine Bluff, Wis., in the Diocese of Madison. It is now a growing grassroots movement, with a national office, chapters in Wisconsin and in several other states. Father Heilman is also a guest spiritual director on Relevant Radio’s The Inner Life.

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