Posted on 03/20/2009 8:48:58 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
Maybe TV isn’t so bad after all.
An estimated 92,000 inactive Catholics have come back to the Church in the last year thanks in large part to the groundbreaking Catholics Come Home television advertising campaign.
The promotional spots featured people and locations from around the Phoenix Diocese to promote the Church during prime time television. The cornerstone of the campaign, the Catholics Come Home Web site, addresses often misunderstood aspects of the faith.
“For those who had fallen away from the practice of their faith, it let them know that we want them to come home,” Bishop Thomas J. Olmsted said.
The commercials, which ran this time last year, detail the good works of the Catholic Church throughout history. They also offer real-life testimonials of local fallen away Catholics explaining what turned them away and what drew them back.
“Phoenix was supposed to be this quiet little test,” said former Phoenician Tom Peterson, president and founder of Catholics Come Home based in Georgia. “Word went worldwide as soon as you launched.”
More than half a million different visitors from all 50 states and 80 countries have visited the catholicscomehome.com Web site since the spots first aired.
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Our parish uses another program, but it is amazing how many Catholics are coming back to the Church! God bless them.
Actually, CatholicsComeHome is not a specific program, but rather a set of television commercials and a website which act to encourage Catholics to use programs such as the one your parish uses.
That's great news!
Thanks for the clarification.
I’m not Catholic, but it’s really great they are coming back. Now I just hope the Catholic chuch doesn’t succomb to the big tent theology just to try and hang on to these returning folks.
“Now I just hope the Catholic chuch doesn’t succomb to the big tent theology ...”
You may not be a Catholic, but you think like many of us do.
Wow. That picture brought back this amazing instant flashback to my childhood.
We call that the "Nostalgia" scene. Effective, isn't it?
I don’t think that will happen. Not with this Pope!
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