The Catholic Book of the Year 2025: The St. John Vianney Playbook That Can Bring Your Kids Home This Christmas
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No budget.
No committees.
No felt banners.
Not even a synod.
Just prayer, old-fashioned self-sacrifice, total trust in Our Lord - and a surprising assist from his heavenly powerhouse, St. Philomena.
So, can this game plan be duplicated today, in our own morally exhausted towns and cities? Or more simply even, can a dad apply this directly to his own family?
Absolutely.
And Kevin Wells has just handed us the blueprint. Yes, the same Kevin Wells who writes the powerful and moving articles for Crisis Magazine.
My 2025 Catholic Book of the Year
Coached by the Curé: The Spiritual Playbook of St. John Vianney
by Kevin Wells
I read a mountain of Catholic books this year.
Some good, some better, some forgettable.
But this one? It hit home.
I even bought an additional 50 copies...for friends, family and neighbors.
Because I’m done watching families I love lose their kids to the world.
It's time to fight back. Let's do for Cleveland what Vianney did for Ars.
This book will show you how. How Vianney did it.
So, I'm going to get it into the hands of friends with estranged kids, co-workers who have given up, neighbors who seem broken.
Together could we personally put this book into the hands of every Cleveland family we know who’s drifting away from the faith?
Here’s why this book is different.
What One Priest Did in Ars — and Why It Still Matters
1818 – Ars, France
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Church empty, taverns overflowing
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Blasphemy with breakfast
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Sunday work the norm
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Confessions basically extinct
They tried to run Vianney out when he got there
1859 – The same village
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20,000 pilgrims a year (they rerouted trains to handle the crowds)
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Vianney hearing confessions up to 18 hours a day
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Atheists, intellectuals, and battle-hardened soldiers walking out converted
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Rosaries on every dinner table
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Daily Communion normal
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Miracles everywhere
One priest. Zero budget. Forty-one years of holy stubbornness.
Why Kevin Wells’ Playbook Works in 2025
Wells takes Vianney’s exact spiritual game plan and translates it for exhausted 2025 parents whose kids scroll past the faith like it’s background noise.
A few plays that hit me hardest:
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Becoming the “domestic priest” (or “domestic Philomena”) of your home
— even when you feel wildly unqualified -
The 19th-century move that shut down the taverns
— and the 2025 version that actually shuts down screens -
St. Philomena: the Curé’s teenage “secret weapon”
— and why she’s ready to go to war for your kids right now -
Turning daily suffering into rocket-fuel grace
— not just for yourself, but for the whole family -
How to light a fire for daily Mass that spreads instead of fizzles
This isn’t soft-focus inspiration.
It’s step-by-step, living-room-ready, spiritually lethal strategy.
Christmas 2025 Is Our Shot
One copy on the nightstand.
One quiet invitation:
“Hey, read pages 87–92 with your coffee tomorrow?”
That can do more than a decade of nagging ever will.
If you want a book that actually moves the needle, this is it.
Get it for less than $15 straight from Scepter Publishers. Buy a few, like I did, and let's get them out there!
Give it to a parent.
Give it to a friend.
Give it to yourself.
And this Christmas, let St. John Vianney coach your family home.
*And exciting news. Kevin Wells is scheduled to speak this Spring at Cleveland's Bringing America Back to Life convention.
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