Washington D.C., Nov 2, 2012 / 01:17 am
For more than two years, the Frontline Faith Project has worked to send MP3 players with Catholic content to U.S. troops, who may not be have regular access to a chaplain or religious services.
"The whole idea was to bring the Catholic Church to those troops who don't have a chaplain available to them," said Cheri Lomonte, founder of the Frontline Faith Project.
The project was initially founded in response to a shortage of Catholic chaplains in the military. Working as the co-host of Mary's Touch radio program, Lomonte received a prayer request for a listener's son who had been in Afghanistan for nine months without seeing a Catholic chaplain.
"I had to do something about this," she told CNA in an Oct. 31 interview, adding that she "knew right then it was the Holy Spirit."