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Catholic World Report: Joe Schmid ran a highly popular agnostic YouTube channel for years, but “a gift of God’s grace” has led him back to the faith.

Joe Schmid shares news of his conversion to Catholicism with viewers on his YouTube channel “Majesty of Reason,” Aug. 21, 2026. Schmid has run the popular philosophy channel from an agnostic’s perspective but recently announced a return to the Catholic Church. | Credit: Courtesy of Joe Schmid
Joe Schmid shares news of his conversion to Catholicism with viewers on his YouTube channel “Majesty of Reason,” Aug. 21, 2026. Schmid has run the popular philosophy channel from an agnostic’s perspective but recently announced a return to the Catholic Church. | Credit: Courtesy of Joe Schmid
“Big news. God exists. Christ is Lord, and he established the Catholic Church.”

That’s how Joe Schmid announced his conversion to Catholicism on his YouTube channel, “Majesty of Reason,” on Aug. 21.

Conversion is always a cause for celebration, but in Schmid’s case it was likely unexpected among his channel’s 55,000 subscribers.

For years, Schmid has used his YouTube channel to explore a broad variety of philosophical and naturalistic arguments and principles — and Schmid himself has openly identified as an agnostic for most of that time.

Schmid, who was raised Catholic, told EWTN News that he adopted atheism and then eventually agnosticism in high school. He said he was originally led to atheism because of “the problem of evolutionary animal suffering,” a well-known topic of philosophical and theological debate.

Philosophers such as Joshua Rasmussen and Alexander Pruss led him to consider “contingency arguments” in favor of God’s existence, he said, but his own “arduous conversion process” would ultimately last a decade.