Refine Is Becoming Zeale — and Growing Into Something More

Refine is entering a new season.

The beloved Refine community — known for its celebration of beauty, family life, culture, art, food, faith, and the quiet heroism of daily living — is moving to Zeale, a new digital home created to expand Refine’s vision, deepen its impact, and carry it to a wider audience hungry for meaning, excellence, and renewal.

Zeale builds on everything Refine readers love — elegant storytelling, common sense wisdom, attention to the goodness of embodied life — and gives it room to flourish. Think of Zeale as Refine fully unleashed: More voices, richer media, deeper formation, and a broader cultural reach, all anchored in the conviction that beauty still saves, families still matter, and faith is meant to be lived joyfully.

“Refine showed us that Catholics are longing for more than arguments: They want beauty, depth, and a way of life that feels whole,” said CatholicVote President and CEO Kelsey Reinhardt. “Zeale is how we honor that insight and take it further. It’s Refine’s spirit, scaled up for a new moment.”

The Refine newsletter will continue to land in subscribers’ inboxes, preserving its distinctive voice and rhythm. At the same time, original Refine stories and contributors now live on Zeale and are found in the Lifestyle and Culture sections of Zeale; where they sit alongside new long-form essays, films, podcasts, and visual storytelling designed to nourish the imagination and strengthen the interior life.

Zeale was created for a cultural moment marked by exhaustion, fragmentation, and spiritual hunger. Rather than shouting into the noise, it invites readers and viewers to slow down, rediscover what is worth loving, and recover confidence in the goodness of marriage, family, creativity, and faith lived publicly … but humanly.

“Culture isn’t renewed primarily through pressure or outrage,” Reinhardt said. “It’s renewed when people fall back in love with what is true and beautiful. Zeale exists to help that happen through art, story, prayer, and real human witness.”

In addition to essays and features on relationships, health, food, travel, creativity, and the arts, Zeale offers immersive multimedia programming, including podcasts and documentaries created by both in-house teams and independent Catholic artists. The platform also integrates prayer into daily life, offering Mass readings, shared prayer intentions, and ways to pray together as a community.

“Zeale is about formation, not consumption,” Reinhardt added. “It’s about helping people live with clarity, joy, and purpose; reminding them that the Catholic vision of life is not small or defensive, but expansive, creative, and full of life.”

Zeale is free to use, with no cost to access any of its resources and content.

Refine helped thousands of readers rediscover a Catholic way of living beautifully. Zeale exists to carry that renewal further into homes, families, friendships, and culture itself. Zeale is now live at Zeale.co, with the Zeale app available on Google Play and the App Store.