At about the time a Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life study reports that one out of every ten adult Americans is a lapsed Catholic, a new campaign has emerged to invite those Catholics home.
The Cause of Our Joy blog reports:
The Cause of Our Joy blog reports:
There’s a new advertising campaign originating out of Phoenix called Catholics Come Home. Using slick commercials and a high-tech web site, the campaign seeks to goad the conscience of lapsed Catholics to re-discover (or discover for the first time) why their Catholic faith is important to their lives, their families, and their eternity.
They have three commercials at the moment: “Epic 120”, which is a two-minute tour through the impact the Catholic Church has had on history and still does today; “Movie” which reminds us that after our lives end we will review our lives (like a movie) and will get to evaluate what we have done; and “Mix”, which shows individual Catholics explaining how they left the Church, why they came back, and what a difference it’s made.
These are high-quality productions, as good as anything out there. The local Phoenix Catholic newspaper, The Catholic Sun, did a story on the start of the campaign in that diocese recently. They say the average Phoenix household will see the commercials 13 times between now and Easter.
And if it’s successful—and they have the money for it—they’ll expand into other dioceses. Looks promising. I know where my Lenten almsgiving is going.
I was raised a catholic, and would never go home to that. Where did they ever get the idea that Peter was the first pope,he was a Jew as were the people the vatican worked along with Hitler to destroy. Jesus never said anything about catholics being the church. As a catholic I never learned from the bible, only about their own doctrine, people need to wake up!
ReplyDeleteHumm I think that the catholics wrote the new testament ...And the
ReplyDeleteJewish Rabbis wrote the old testament..Peter was the first pope.. Aposatle John Wrote Rev.,John 1 Etc. He lived to be 100 years old and the last living Apostle .. in 100 A.D. He saw the first Five Popes, if he thought the Catholic church (Universal Church) was not the church that christ wanted Peter to build..
he would of said so.. and paul also
who went off to start church's and came back to give the donations to peter.
The catolic church is the largest
ReplyDeletecharity on the planet...
They started the college system,
educated more people world wide,
compiled the Bible.. I see a lot
of good they have done. But this
thing about the Jews and Hitler
I think they were also looking
out for their lives as well others . I don't know what happened in the church in WWII.