ABOUT KEVIN

Kevin Wells is an award-winning Catholic author, acclaimed Catholic speaker and former sports reporter with the Tampa Tribune, where he covered Major League Baseball. He is the best-selling author of two books, including Priest and Beggar: The Heroic Life of Venerable Aloysius Schwartz and The Priests We Need to Save the Church, a written plea for holy priests written in the aftermath of 2018 scandals. The Priests We Need was quickly disseminated to seminaries on four continents, and has been read by faithful Catholics throughout the world.

Wells is an active evangelist who has spoken on a national Catholic stage including the Legatus Summit, Napa Institute, That Man is You, on EWTN, the TASTE program, as well as hundreds of other men’s and women’s conferences, retreats, missions, and on television, radio, and podcasts, where he often speaks on the urgent need for heroic lives of virtue and untamed Catholicism in the public square. His articles have appeared in Crisis Magazine, Catholic World Report, The Imaginative Conservative, The National Catholic Register, Catholic Exchange, LifeSiteNews, and Homiletic and Pastoral Review and various other periodicals. 

Wells's searing memoir: The Hermit: The Priest Who Saved a Soul, a Marriage, and Family (Ignatius Press) received wide literary acclaim from best-selling Catholic authors, theologians, and clergy throughout the world in 2024. 

Inspired by the startling life of American Venerable Aloysius Schwartz, Wells traveled to Mexico and spent a month with The Sisters of Mary, a religious community founded by Venerable Schwartz. Wells was so moved by the stories of “Fr. Al” and witnessing firsthand the sisters’ round-the-clock work to nourish, catechize and care for 20,000-plus bullied teens, he penned the acclaimed best-selling biography: Priest and Beggar: published in 2021 by Ignatius Press.  

Wells served as a “content expert” for the EWTN series “They Might Be Saints,” featuring Fr. Al Schwartz, in collaboration with Michael O’Neill, The Miracle Hunter. He is in the process of writing Fear Nothing, the story of “Fr. Al” for Voyage Comics.

In 2009, he survived a brush with death after a malformed line of vessels in his brain hemorrhaged. The day after invasive brain surgery failed to control the flow of blood, Kevin was anointed by Fr. James Stack – the longtime best friend of his murdered uncle, Msgr. Thomas Wells. To this day, witnesses in the neuro-ICU room tell of the miracle that unfolded at his bedside. He wrote Burst, A Story of God’s Grace When Life Falls Apart during his recovery.

Wells is the former president of the Monsignor Thomas Wells Society for Vocations, which commits itself to the promotion of strong priests, seminarians, and practicing the fullness of the Catholic Faith. His work with youth earned him the James Cardinal Hickey National Figure Award from the Archdiocese of Washington.

When Kevin is not writing and speaking, he enjoys spending time with The Sisters of Mary and their 20,000 children in Boystowns and Girlstowns throughout the world. Kevin loves baseball, reading, writing and lives in Maryland with his wife and three children.