Catholics Coming Home

For several months now I have been updating information, thanks to many others who love to blog too, about increasing converts to Catholicism in the midwest, the deep south, in the heart of the Bible Belt. Now, thanks in large part to the efforts of an organization called Catholics Come Home, hundreds of thousands of Catholics are returning to the church, to the Eucharist, to the faith. After you read the article below, scroll down my blog and you will see a link for Catholics Come Home. Click to view the video presentations called "movie" and "epic" and read the testimonials too.

Jesus promised that His church would last forever and it's recent growth, after 2,000 years of faithfulness is His promise.

FOX NEWS REPORTS CATHOLICS COME HOME.ORG SUCCESS STORY August 24, 2009 – Atlanta, GA. CatholicsComeHome.org Founder and President, Tom Peterson appeared in multiple stories on FOX NewsChannel to discuss the much hyped “Pew Study,” issued in April 2009. The Pew Study reported that about half of American adults change religious affiliation at least once during their lives. “Some Christians are drawn to faith communities that promote an ‘a la carte’ practice of faith, while others are lured out of religious practice altogether by the perceived glamour of secularism,” says Peterson. By using compassionate commercials that motivate viewers to visit our interactive website, Catholics Come Home.org invites inactive Catholics and others to the sacraments found only in the universal Church Jesus started 2000 years ago.” Peterson went on to explain that, “CatholicsComeHome.org messages also minister to people who are struggling with faith, helping them to find the answers, hope and peace that only comes from a relationship with Jesus.”Catholics Come Home, Inc. is a lay Catholic organization faithful to the Church’s teachings. It creates effective and compassionate media messages and broadcasts them nationally and internationally to inspire, educate and evangelize inactive Catholics and others to come home to our faith family. Results from initial television campaigns show that the commercials are also motivating existing Catholics to share their faith with their friends, relatives and neighbors. Additionally, it appears that 25% of the CatholicsComeHome.org web visitors are potential converts looking for a faith family and church home. Peterson’s international apostolate has already touched millions of souls around the world, welcoming them back home to the Catholic Church. In addition, Catholics Come Home.org reaches out to people of other faiths to help them discover the sacraments, beauty, truth and accomplishments of the Catholic Church, which helped build Western Civilization.According to Catholic News Service (CNS), parishes in the Diocese of Phoenix reported a 12 percent increase in weekly Mass attendance that still continues long after the commercials aired. The CatholicsComeHome.org television initiative and web site were directly responsible for bringing nearly 100,000 inactive Catholics and converts home to the Church during Lent 2008.The Diocese of Corpus Christi, Texas, experienced similar success with its 2009 bi-lingual (www.catolicosregresen.org) Catholics Come Home.org campaign, where initial results show a 17.7 percent increase in weekly Mass attendance throughout 38 surveyed parishes. Interestingly, Hispanics responded at nearly the same rate to the Spanish language commercials and web site.These consistent results have motivated a dozen other archdioceses and dioceses throughout the United States to partner with CatholicsComeHome.org to launch campaigns in their areas during the upcoming seasons of Advent and Lent. These include: the Archdioceses of Chicago, Atlanta, Omaha and Seattle, and the Dioceses of Sacramento, Colorado Springs, Lincoln, Green Bay, Rockford, Joliet, Charlotte, Providence and Venice (FL). The momentum of CatholicsComeHome.org has now extended internationally into Australia where Peterson recently returned from a national media conference followed by the Plenary meeting with Cardinal Pell and the 44 Bishops of Australia. They are discerning implementation of CatholicsComeHome.org on their continent. It appears that the Archdiocese of Brisbane may be the first international archdiocese to launch the CatholicsComeHome.org campaign. “No creative marketing team could possibly yield these miraculous results,” Peterson concludes. “This is truly an apostolic movement designed and directed by the Holy Spirit. Our invitation is simple: ‘We are Catholic. Welcome Home’.”