Message from the Board Chairman Message from the President
Message from the Vice-President Returning to Our Roots
‘Doing RENEW’: Two New Resources
The Brand
Where It All Begins: The Core Community
In the Bookstore: More Choices for Small Groups
Financial Summary
Development
RENEW Gala
Honoring Our Supporters
Leadership
The history of RENEW International is a history of relationship with dioceses. RENEW itself evolved from a pastoral office in the Archdiocese of Newark. The origins of many RENEW resources were rooted in dialogue with dioceses: ARISE with the Archdiocese of Boston; New Wine, New Wineskins with the Diocese of Metuchen; Healing Our Church with the Diocese of Allentown; Grateful Living with the Diocese of Jefferson City; and the revised edition of Grieving the Death of a Loved One with the Diocese of Trenton.
In a broader way, the success RENEW enjoyed for decades was built on its agreements with bishops to introduce the RENEW process in their parishes. With more than 17,000 parishes in the United States, marketing to dioceses has been the only practical approach. In recent years, a variety of factors, including declining church attendance, severe financial problems in many dioceses, and the pandemic has undermined this strategy.
We are convinced, however, that faith sharing in small Christian communities is the best means of parish revival. We are also convinced that RENEW can build lay leadership, introduce and help sustain small communities, and transform parish life—all with a process that dioceses would find cost effective.
President Joe Nuzzi and the staff at RENEW are focusing attention where it has been most fruitful, on engagement with bishops and the dioceses they lead. We are confident that, with your continued support, RENEW will succeed in this essential ministry in the Church.
Sincerely,
Donald J. Whittam Chair, Board of Trustees
When I returned to RENEW, where I began serving the Church in the late 1990s, it felt like a homecoming. But a homecoming can feel both familiar and unfamiliar. A lot changes in 25 years!
Some of the changes at RENEW impacted pastoral services most directly. In a desire to meet other needs in the Church, such as sacramental preparation, pastoral planning, and outreach to homebound people, RENEW diverted its attention from its core mission of renewing parish life by bringing people together in small communities.
With the proliferation of smart phones and social media and the stresses of the modern economy, especially on young families, came a decrease in church attendance and fraying of the fabric of community life. Then the pandemic made matters worse.
RENEW’s core pastoral work is needed now more than ever, in the Church and in society at large. Human beings were designed by God for community. The first comment God makes in the book of Genesis about his new human creature is, “It is not good for Adam to be alone.” We know this is true, but it’s not so easy to fight loneliness. Building community takes vision, work, and commitment. RENEW helps parishes through this process, bringing people together to share life and faith and to commit more deeply to being missionary disciples.
There is something unique about the way RENEW helps dioceses and parishes. We work directly with the laity. We spend time helping pastors call forth volunteers, and then we spend time training these new leaders. Through the whole process, RENEW’s pastoral staff walks with the parishes to help them succeed.
Our process works. After working closely for the past year with our pastoral team to refresh RENEW’s core process of parish renewal, I’m pleased to say that our staff is ready to go out and help dioceses and parishes come alive.
One small community filled with the Spirit sparked 2,000 years of commitment to the Gospel. Small communities, gathered in faith and filled with the Spirit, can set the world ablaze again in our own day. RENEW is here to make sure that happens.
Joseph Nuzzi President and Executive Director
A new vice-president at RENEW
Dear Friends,
When I stepped into the role of vice president of pastoral services at RENEW International, I knew I was joining a community that believes deeply in the power of faith shared. This work builds on years of ministry as a musician, retreat leader, pastoral minister, and clinician, but here, those threads come together in service of the wider Church.
One of the great joys of this past year has been creating resources that meet people where they are. From Catholic Social Teaching to Advent and Lent guides, as well as a special resource to support those carrying grief during the holidays, I’ve had the privilege of shaping materials that help parishes place faith-sharing right into the hands of their people. Writing these resources is more than publishing booklets; it’s about opening doors for prayer, reflection, and deeper community life.
Again and again, I’ve seen how gathering changes the experience of faith. In parish halls, living rooms, and even online, people discover that faith is not an idea but a shared journey. They listen with greater care, support one another in real ways, and start to recognize the Gospel at work in their daily lives. That’s the heart of RENEW: helping faith feel alive, connected, and transformative.
Looking ahead, I am hopeful. Hopeful that more parishes will discover the gift of small Christian communities. Hopeful that lay leaders will be formed and empowered. And hopeful that RENEW will remain a bridge, helping people encounter God and one another in meaningful ways.
Thank you for being part of this journey. Your prayers, generosity, and partnership make it possible for us to keep renewing the Church, one community at a time.
Blessings and Gratitude,
Meredith Augustin, Vice President of Pastoral Services
Returning to Our Roots
When a priest and one secretary opened an office in the Archdiocese of Newark in January 1976, they didn’t know what they were starting. Father Tom Kleissler and Liz Mullen first turned the lights on at the Office of Pastoral Renewal, a ministry Father Tom was launching at the request of Archbishop Peter L. Gerety. The goal of this ministry was to reinvigorate parish life by enabling lay leadership.
In 1976, the Church was still feeling the inspiration of the Second Vatican Council, including the council’s call for a more vigorous role for the laity. In that atmosphere, the Office of Pastoral Renewal launched a project to establish parish councils throughout the archdiocese. The office also introduced what until recently as known as the Rite for the Christian Initiation of Adults or RCIA. And the office committed itself to develop and build small Christian communities. Members of those small groups would gather to reflect on Scripture, share faith experiences, and be moved to acts of compassion, generosity, and justice. As the new spiritual energy was felt in the parish, it would become a community of small communities, reflecting the life of the infant Church.
To implement small communities, Father Kleissler and his rapidly growing staff developed what came to be known as the RENEW Process which involved discerning and training lay leadership in the diocese, the parish, and the small group itself. The first groups to meet used a resource known simply as RENEW as their source of prayer, scripture, reflections, and invitations to action. The success of RENEW, originally intended only for the archdiocese, attracted wide attention and was implemented in dioceses and parishes around the United States and, eventually, around the world.
The Office of Parish Renewal has long since been transformed from an office of the archdiocese into a freestanding “association of the laity,” RENEW International. In nearly 50 years, RENEW has published dozens of resources for small-group faith sharing with themes including the Gospels, the environment, the death penalty, the workplace,
Father Tom Kleissler
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and the sexual-abuse scandal in the Church. But as effective as these resources may be, producing them is not the primary mission of RENEW. If it were, it would leave RENEW as only a small player in a crowded publishing marketplace. Rather, as it was when Father Kleissler launched RENEW, the primary mission is helping parishes to identify, train, and empower lay leaders who will build, grow, and sustain small Christian communities.
Helping local churches establish small communities does not mean selling them a packaged program and moving on to the next customer, but rather walking with them, supporting them, counseling them throughout this process. Because of this level of pastoral service, RENEW can offer dioceses something they might not be willing or able to do with paid staff. In this respect, RENEW is unique.
RENEW experienced the combined impacts of declining religious practice, diocesan financial crises, and the Covid pandemic, perhaps with an uncertain vision of a path forward. As we look ahead now, however, we think of our approach as a return to our roots, a “re-founding” of the pastoral-services component of RENEW, focusing our attention not on products but on the core process that made RENEW a success in the first place. We have rewritten that process and training materials for the mid21st century. We are focusing our marketing on the process rather than the publications. This mission—discerning and training the leadership that will make small groups a vibrant and growing part of parish life—is at least as important to the Church today as it was in 1976; in fact, it is especially relevant in view of the Church’s emphasis on synodality— the active participation of all the faithful in the life and mission of the Church.
A volunteer leader in San Angelo, Texas, participates in a training workshop.
‘Doing RENEW’: Two New Resources
During this fiscal year, we began developing two core faith-sharing experiences for small Christian communities that will “do RENEW.” The new resources are REKINDLE, which is designed to reintroduce Catholics to Christ and to the great mysteries of our faith, and In the Light of Justice: Catholic Social Teaching for a New Era. Both will be available in English and Spanish.
REKINDLE, being written by RENEW President Joe Nuzzi, will consist of six seasons of six gatherings each:
Season 1: Encountering Christ and His Kingdom
Season 2: Encountering Christ in the Mysteries of the Faith
Season 3: Encountering Christ in the Mass
Season 4: Encountering Christ in the Sacraments
Season 5: Encountering Christ in the Liturgical Year
Season 6: Encountering Christ is Others
The series will be suitable for a three-year comprehensive parish-renewal process, but it will also be available in its individual seasons to small Christian communities, ministry groups, catechists, or anyone else interested in contemplating various aspects of the Catholic faith in an environment of prayer, sharing, and support.
Season 1 is also designed to stand alone and can be used as a six-week series to welcome new members of a parish, to introduce the faith to inquirers, or to re-engage Catholics who want to take their first steps to know Christ more deeply.
What makes this RENEW series unique is the place of the liturgy and the sacraments as major components of three of the seasons. The liturgy, often overlooked in faith-sharing resources, makes Christ present in a real and profound way, and it is catechetical and formational for our faith. While the sacraments require and presuppose faith, they also strengthen and deepen that faith. Three of the seasons of REKINDLE will break open our experience of the liturgy in order to deepen our connection to the celebration of the Mass and the other sacraments.
In the Light of Justice will also comprise a series of six-week seasons that respond to a theme in the papacy of Leo XIV—Catholic Social Teaching, a term that evolved from the teaching of the pope’s predecessor and namesake, Leo XIII. As the 19th century
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pope addressed the injustices of the first industrial revolution, Leo XIV is ministering in a world shaped by a second: the revolution of artificial intelligence, automation, and unchecked economic power. Once again, the Church is summoned to bring moral clarity, human dignity, and gospel light to the pressing social questions of our time.
At RENEW International, we believe the heart of the Church’s social teaching comes alive when people gather to reflect on Scripture, share their lived experiences, and discern how faith leads to action in everyday life. Accordingly, we are creating this resource, written by Meredith Augustin, vice president of pastoral services at RENEW, to help parishes, small groups, and individuals explore, embody, and activate the wisdom of Catholic Social Teaching.
The first season, which is available in the online book store for presale, will be a six-week foundational resource exploring these topics:
• The Common Good
• The Dignity of Work in the Age of AI
• The Option for the Poor and Vulnerable
• Solidarity and the Human Family
• Care for Our Common Home
• Faith in Action: Disciples Shaping the Future
Additional seasons will deepen and expand the conversation:
• The Faces of Justice – narrative-based reflections on poverty, labor, exclusion, and resilience
• The Prophetic Imagination – voices of scripture and modern prophets calling the Church to conversion
• Faith at Work – practical pathways for living CST in daily life
• Wired for the Kingdom – Catholic Social Teaching and the ethics of AI, technology, and digital culture
• Communities of Hope – helping parishes reflect the justice they proclaim
Each session will include prayer, Scripture, reflection, key quotes, questions for faith sharing, and invitations to action, rooted in the Church’s teaching and attuned to the reality of 21st century life.
The Brand
“I’m with RENEW International.”
“RENEW? Are they still around? My parents did RENEW in the ’70s.”
That’s a conversation that RENEW personnel have often heard, and it illustrates the need to refresh and, to be frank, reintroduce the RENEW brand to the Church. The evidence is that, because of marketing practices in the past, even folks who have used resources such as Why Catholic? and ARISE Together in Christ have done so without making the connection to RENEW. They speak of “doing Why Catholic?” or “doing ARISE” rather than of “doing RENEW.”
They also may think of “doing” one of our resources as “one and done” rather than focusing on the continual activity and growth of small groups, formed by the RENEW process, in their parishes—regardless of what faithsharing resource they use in a given season.
During the past year, we have addressed this issue by redesigning the RENEW logo and the RENEW website. The logo, which was itself a recent iteration, was changed again to reflect both the history and the mission of this organization. A tree has been the symbol of RENEW from the beginning. In the new design, a gnarled olive tree, with its roots set deep in tradition, gives birth to new life, the sprightly green leaves.
The home page of the website has been revamped; the focus is not book sales but rather RENEW’s mission: fostering the establishment, maintenance, and growth of small Christian communities in parishes. A link takes visitors to an explanation of the “RENEW Process” for implementing small groups without adding to the workloads of the pastor or the parish staff. The website features a video in which Joseph Nuzzi, RENEW president, and Meredith Augustin, vice president for pastoral services, invite parishes to “do RENEW” using the new resource, In the Light of Justice
Where It All Begins: The Core Community
At the heart of the RENEW process is the Core Community, the gathering of lay leaders in each parish who will facilitate the establishment of small Christian communities. As we return RENEW to its original mission, we have made the Core Community manual process less complicated and more flexible.
The manual provides seven gatherings in which members of the Core Community will continually grow as a community; share faith through scripture, prayer, and personal reflection; and take steps to launch small groups in the parish:
1. Becoming a Community: Understanding their responsibilities.
2. Working as a Team: Delegating responsibilities among the members; brainstorming ideas to publicize RENEW in the parish; setting a timeline for launching RENEW.
3. Getting the Word Out: continuing to mine ideas for spreading the word about RENEW.
4. Planning and Organizing Sign-Up Sunday when parishioners are invited to join small communities, and the weeks leading up to that day.
5. Discerning Small-Group Leaders: Identifying people to invite as group leaders; planning ways to prepare and support those who accept this role.
6. Forming Small Communities and Assigning Leaders.
7. Preparing for the Next RENEW Season: Planning how to communicate with existing small groups to determine their status for the next season; planning what needs to be done before the next season.
Streamlining our pastoral services will enable parishes to easily engage with RENEW—to “do RENEW,” to revive the original concept—choosing the resource that best fits their needs, including our signature “core processes,” ARISE Together in Christ, Why Catholic?, Be My Witness, and Grateful Living.
In the Bookstore: More Choices for Small Groups
RENEW’s mission, reasserted during this fiscal year, is to foster the establishment of vibrant small Christian communities—frankly, regardless of what resources the communities choose for faith sharing.
Still, beginning with the program known as “original RENEW,” a part of the ministry has been producing theologically sound, accessible publications on topics ranging from protecting the environment to grieving for lost loved ones. These resources have been published in English and in many other languages, most often in Spanish. The RENEW catalog compiled this year lists 35 English faith-sharing titles, and several more were being developed.
While RENEW is not a publishing house and selling books is not its primary mission, offering these resources helps small groups find faith-sharing material that suits them, and they help promote the RENEW brand and recover its competitive edge in a crowded market.
RENEWED by the Word
During this fiscal year, RENEW, for the first time in its history, made one of its resources available as a digital download. That resource, PrayerTime for Year C, contains a faithsharing session based on each Sunday gospel reading and for solemnities that fall on Sundays. Unlike the physical books, each download is for use in a specific liturgical year, dating the Sundays and taking into account such variations as the dates of Advent, Lent, and Easter and occasions when a feast supersedes the Sunday liturgy. Parishes and others could download the PDF for $52 and were licensed to make as many copies as needed. For liturgical Year A, a revised version of the resource, RENEWED by the Word, will be available for download.
Walking with Francis
When Pope Francis died in April 2025, RENEW responded by offering, as a free download, Walking with Francis: A Journey of Gratitude, Grief, and Gospel Hope which included four faith-sharing sessions reflecting on various aspects of Francis’ papacy. This resource was written by
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Meredith Augustin, RENEW’s vice president for pastoral services, and was available for download two days after the Holy Father died.
Lent 2025
RENEW also employed the digital-download model for a new resource, Lent 2025: Renewal in the Midst of Change by Meredith Augustin. Priced at $15 per parish, this resource included a faith-sharing session for each of the Sundays of Lent and Palm Sunday. Links were also provided to music for each session.
Jubilee
Pope Francis declared a holy year, or jubilee, that began on Christmas Eve 2024 and ends on the feast of the Epiphany in January 2026. Although the central activity of this observance involves pilgrimages to Rome, Catholics—wherever they may be—were encouraged to observe it in a variety of ways. RENEW offered one opportunity by publishing, in English and Spanish, Jubilee: Join the Journey of Hope, with six faith-sharing sessions written by Deacon Charles Paolino, managing editor at RENEW.
Walking to Emmaus
“Accompaniment” was a frequent theme in the teaching of Pope Francis, who stressed that we should not “go it alone” in spiritual life. The term means building relationships in ways that mirror Jesus’ example in his interactions with his disciples and with other men and women he encountered. To introduce Catholic men and women to this ideal, RENEW developed Walking to Emmaus, which was adapted from a book published by the Catholic Apostolate Center. Six faith-sharing sessions by Lorene Hanley Duquin encourage participants to accompany others in their spiritual journeys and to be accompanied themselves. The book is featured on the website of the Apostolate Center.
Financial Summary
RENEW International Key Statistics
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RENEW International gratefully shares its mission with donors including individuals, foundations, and businesses that make direct gifts or participate in our annual Gala. These benefactors make it possible for our staff to develop new faith-sharing programs and accompany participating small Christian communities and parishes. Donors also help RENEW to respond quickly to the needs of Catholics by providing free resources such as Walking with Francis, and to develop new multi-season resources such as In the Light of Justice. Thank you! Net
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RENEW Gala
RENEW International hosted its 26th Gala on June 5 at the Pleasantdale Château in West Orange, New Jersey. The highlight of the annual event was the presentation of awards to RENEW honorees. The Infernos provided musical entertainment, joined by vocalist Meredith Dean Augustin, vice president for pastoral services at RENEW. The event succeeded in large part due to the efforts of the volunteer committee: Diane Forastiero, Lisa Meehan, Sister Honora Nolty, O.P., Thomas Rickard, Walter and Lynn Rickard, and Jeanette Walton. The Gala was streamed live and was made available for later viewing on YouTube.
RENEW Vice President Meredith Augustin, left, and President Joseph Nuzzi pose with Sister Theresa Rickard, longtime president and executive director of RENEW. Sister Terry received the Msgr. Thomas A. Kleissler Memorial Award.
RENEW President Joseph Nuzzi with members of the Donahue family, longtime RENEW supporters and participants and winners of this year’s President’s Award. From left, Robert Dempsey, Joseph Nuzzi, Mary Sheehan, and Dolly Donahue. Posthumously sharing in the award was Jerry Dempsey.
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RENEW’s vice president for pastoral services, Meredith Augustin, with Father James Martin, S.J., recipient of the 2005 Spirit of RENEW Award. Father Martin is editor at large at America magazine and founder of Outreach, a ministry for LGBT Catholics.
RENEW’s annual Gala runs smoothly because of the work of volunteers.
Facilitating this year’s event were, from left in front, Joseph Anton; Haley Reece; Diane Anton; Sister Mary Jo Kearns, RSM; and Patricia Dougherty; and, from left in back, Steve Anton, Kenneth Lynch, Bob D’Meo, Mimi Gabel, and Evan Bellouny.
Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin, C.Ss.R., archbishop of Newark, addresses the attendees at RENEW’s annual Gala.
Honoring Our Supporters
RENEW International is a donor-funded ministry whose work is made possible in large part by the generous gifts of individuals, foundations, and businesses. Their generosity has been indispensable in helping us to create strong Christian communities, revitalize parishes, and transform the Church so that the Church can transform the world. Our donors, honorees, and volunteers are catalysts for change, and we thank them all.
President’s Society - $20,000 and above
The James and Loretta Colotto Foundation, Inc.
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The Lynch Foundation
The Loyola Foundation
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Patrons of RENEW - $10,000 and above
Anonymous
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Partners in Mission - $5,000 and above
Anonymous
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RENEW Supporters during the period July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025
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Sponsors - $1,000 and above
Dr. Alice Beal and Hon. William Kuntz, II
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Father Stephen Fichter
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The Monsignor Thomas A. Kleissler Legacy Society
Members of the Legacy Society make a gift to RENEW that will endure beyond their lifetimes. The following have named RENEW International as the beneficiary of a planned gift.
+Msgr. Edward J. Ciuba
Margaret and +Robert
Graham
Monica Garofalo
Lynn Hull
+Msgr. Thomas Ivory
John Kennelly
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+Msgr. Tom Kleissler
+Kevin Lawler
+Barbara Miller
Jack Norris
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C. William Reilly
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Anonymous
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We thank all our friends, volunteers, and supporters not mentioned here. Truly, we could not do this work without you.
Members of St. Simon Catholic Parish in Los Altos, California, participated in the “Love Thy Neighbor” parish-renewal webinar in February 2025.
STAFF
President and Executive Director
Joseph F. Nuzzi
Development
Cynthia Chovan-Dalton Director
Sales and Marketing
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Finance
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Pastoral Services and Parish Mission
Meredith Augustin Vice-President
Palma Anton Pastoral Consultant
Sr. Ruth Bolarte, I.H.M.
John Fontana
Dr. Sourette Fougère
Sr. Chela Gonzalez, O.P.
Sr. Janet Schaeffler, O.P.
RENEW Africa
Rev. Ludwe Jayiya Director
Charmaine Woolard Administrator
Publishing
Deacon Charles Paolino Managing Editor
Human Services
Jana Venkataramanan Senior Advisor
Members of the RENEW staff gather at the 2025 Gala: from left, Joseph Nuzzi, Meredith Augustin, Millicent Anderson, Eileen Lynch, Laura DePalma-Bellouny, Cynthia Chovan-Dalton, Denise Reece, Palma Anton, Charles Paolino, Alesha Curry, and Jana Venkataramanan.
of the
BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Joseph F. Nuzzi
President and Executive Director
Donald J. Whittam, Chair
Patricia A. Murphy, Secretary
Thomas Gorman, Treasurer
Victoria Carey
Eric Dill
Olivia Dinneen
Martin Garofalo
Robert P. “Pat” Kane
CORPORATE BOARD
Rev. Thomas P. Looney, C.S.C., Ph.D.
Lisa Meehan
Rev. Abraham Orapankal
Mario Paredes
Dominick Preziosi
Walter I. Rickard
Felipe “Flip” Sanchez
Dennis Stripe
Jeanette Walton
Cardinal Joseph William Tobin, C.Ss.R., Chair
Very Rev. John J. Chadwick, S.T.D.
Sr. Donna L. Ciangio, O.P., M.A., Min.
Sr. Patricia Wormann, O.P., M.Div., M.S.W.
Rev. Timothy McGraff, M.Div.
Members
RENEW International Board of Trustees gather at the 2025 Gala: Joseph Nuzzi, president and executive director; trustees Rev. Abraham Orapankal; Olivia Dinneen; Thomas Gorman; Lisa Meehan; Dominick Preziosi, Jr.; Dennis Stripe; Victoria Carey; Patricia A. Murphy; and Donald J. Whittam, chair.
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