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A Brief Timeline
of the Apostolate

From a seminary webcomic to a national television broadcast — Faith Gone Digital.

2000
  • Programmed by Deacon Joshua LeBlanc, cyberCatholics.com launches as a web portal for Catholic seminarians — one of the first Catholic blogs on the internet.
  • (Then seminarian) Fr. Chris launches a webcomic, "The Road to Emmaus" — drawn and written by him.
2001–02
  • A German Catholic website discovers "The Road to Emmaus" and dubs Fr. Chris' comic part of "the Catholic underground." Liking the name, Fr. Chris registers the catholicunderground.com domain.
  • Fr. Ryan Humphries and Fr. Chris Decker (then seminarians) brainstorm possible projects under the "Catholic Underground" banner.
2004
  • A meeting at a coffee house between Fr. Chris, Fr. Ryan, Deacon Joshua, and Daniel Kedinger — a casual conversation about a shared love of technology and its usefulness in evangelizing the Catholic Faith.
2006
  • Catholic Underground launches as an audio podcast about the intersection between faith and technology.
  • The podcast is hosted live at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Baton Rouge, LA, while Fr. Chris served there for his diaconate internship.
2008
  • The Catholic Underground incorporates as a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible.
2010
  • The Catholic Underground begins a video webcast.
2011
  • The Catholic Underground organizes and hosts CatholiCon Expo 2011 in Houston, TX — a think tank on issues facing the Catholic Church and its use of technology.
2012
  • The Catholic Underground begins broadcasting its live weekly webcast from Catholic Community Radio in Baton Rouge, LA — available on radio, the CU live stream, and the CCR webstream.
  • The Catholic Underground announces "The CU Later Show" — the webcast version that continues after the radio show ends.
2013
  • The Catholic Underground webcast goes on the air in the Diocese of Baton Rouge on Catholic Life Television.
  • The Catholic Underground begins its live weekly broadcast on YouTube Live.
2015
  • The Catholic Underground moves to new permanent studio facilities in Baton Rouge with Catholic Community Radio. (Previously, the studio was in Fr. Chris' bedroom.)
2016
  • The Catholic Underground goes on the air with CatholicTV, placing it in major U.S. cities.
  • The Catholic Underground goes on the air with Telecare Television (now the Catholic Faith Network) in New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.
2020
  • The Catholic Underground keeps broadcasting through the Long Night of Lockdown. The CU Weekly stays in some form of production while Fr. Chris hosts "The Night Office" which includes a check-in via the chat room, a brief teaching, and celebration of The Liturgy of The Hours Compline or Night Office of prayer.
2016
  • The Catholic Underground concludes its CU Weekly podcast and television schedule as the CU Crew moves on to other apostolates, assignments, and ministry. While the archive may seem a bit silent, CU merely sleeps. One day, that which slumbers may awaken!