In his last words to his Apostles, Christ said: “Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you” (Mt 28:19-20). The Napa Institute was founded in order to help Catholics follow this final commandment by promoting excellence in Catholic thought and apologetics.
It also seeks to instill a new zeal for Jesus Christ and the Catholic faith in all its participants. To accomplish this, one of the Institute’s key tools is an annual conference designed to help attendees respond to the moral, spiritual, and intellectual challenges posed by America’s emerging “post-Christian” culture. Though not a ministry of the Diocese of Santa Rosa, the Napa Institute annual conference is hosted within the Diocese with the approval of His Excellency, The Most Reverend Robert F. Vasa, Bishop of Santa Rosa.
“The ‘next America’ has been in its chrysalis a long time…. But the future is not predestined. We create it with our choices. And the most important choice we can make is both terribly simple and terribly hard: to actually live what the Church teaches, to win the hearts of others by our witness, and to renew the soul of our country with the courage of our own Christian faith and integrity.”
-Archbishop Charles Chaput, Archdiocese of Philadelphia
