The American Platform Catholicvote has appointed Kelsey Reinhardt as his new president as of June 19, after the appointment of the co -founder leader of the organization, Brian Burch, as the United States ambassador to the Holy See.
Reinhardt was previously director of media projects and evangelization for Catholicvote, an American Catholic activism organization.
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Before joining Catholicvote, Reinhardt served as executive director of the ACI group, an international network of news agencies operated by EWTN News, the parent company of ACI Press. Before his work with Ewtn, Reinhardt had professed temporary votes with the Dominican sisters of Santa Cecilia. It has a Bachelor of Theology at the University of Notre Dame and a Master’s Degree in Theology of Augustine Institute. He also worked as a legislative correspondent for the United States Catholic Bishop Conference (USCCB) on immigration and refugee issues.
“I am extremely excited to serve such a noble cause,” said Reinhardt, According to Catholicvote. “Under intrepid leadership and focused on Christ of Brian Burch, Catholicvote has become one of the largest and most effective Catholic activism organizations in the country, making a difference in the media, politics, law and education.”
He also said that “the energy unleashed by the choice of the first American Pope gives US Catholics the historical opportunity to look at our faith with gratitude and commit ourselves to embody that same faith with unprecedented energy and joy in the public sphere.”
Reinhardt assumes the position while Burch, who was president of the organization for 17 years, expects the confirmation of the Senate. Catholicvote He had previously indicated that Burch would leave the position of president if he was confirmed by the Senate.
Last month, the Senate Democrats blocked Bock’s confirmation, stopping the process before the inaugural Mass of Pope Leo XIV. The Republicans of the Senate had requested that the nomination of Burch accelerated by unanimous consent together with the rest of the nominees to ambassadors of President Trump, but the Democrats rejected the effort, forcing an individual vote for each nominee, including butch, whose final confirmation vote is still pending.
Translated and adapted by the ACI Press team. Originally published in CNA.
Low Elhabbal
Madalaine Elhabbal is a CNA journalist based in the Washington DC office in EWTN. He has published articles in Catholicvote and has also worked as a foreign language assistant in France. She is a graduate of Benedictine College.