Who we are 
Catholics Come Home is an independent, non-profit charity started and supported by a number of Catholic families and individuals. We are a welcoming ministry for anyone who has left the Catholic Church, for whatever reasons. Whether it was resentment, anger, divorce, isolation, apathy, rebellion, or a lack of understanding of the faith, coming home has never been easier.
Our beloved late Pope, John Paul II, continually exhorted the Church to begin a new evangelization. He described modern media as an indispensable means of achieving it. In Ecclesia in America he wrote, 'Using the media correctly and competently can lead to a genuine enculturation of the Gospel." Furthermore, he realized that the old methods from the past needed refreshing, "This vital field of action for the Church requires a radical change of mentality, an authentic new awakening of conscience in everyone. New methods are needed, as are new expressions and new courage."
Inspired by the Holy Father's call to a new evangelization, Catholics Come Home reaches out to, ˜the lost sheep of Israel: inactive Catholics. Without pressure or obligation, Catholics Come Home.org offers an opportunity to learn the truth about the Catholic faith, in a loving, non-judgmental atmosphere. Many resources are offered to visitors, so that those who want to learn more can find an RCIA program and local parish in their community. Coming home has never been easier!
Endorsements from Noteworthy Catholic Leaders
1Late Pope's New Evangelization Has Transformed Airwave, 2006 Catholic News Source/U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops
2Cf. John Paul II, Discourse to the 19th General Assembly of CELAM, March 9, 1983, Insegnamenti di Giovanni Paolo VI, 1 (1983) pp660-699
Our Mission:
Catholics Come Home, Inc. is an independent non-profit Catholic apostolate that creates effective and compassionate media messages and broadcasts them nationally and internationally, in order to inspire, educate and evangelize inactive Catholics and others, and invite them to live a deeper faith in Jesus Christ, in accord with the magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church.
The Need:
Here is the evidence that the need for Catholics Come Home is great:
- In 2005, Catholics accounted for nearly 23% (64.8 million) of the U.S. population, yet according to the CARA Catholic Poll (CCP), only 33% of U.S. Catholics attend Mass on a weekly basis. That means that approximately 42.7 million U.S. Catholics are not even regular worshipers!
- The number of Americans identifying themselves as non-religious/secular increased 110% from 1990 to 2000. It is now 13.2% of the total population.3 Comparing this statistic with the previous one, non-religious-secular individuals outnumber active, Mass attending Catholics by 58% (13.2% vs. 7.59%). Imagine the negative impact these individuals have on culture and public policy.
- As many as 100,000 baptized Catholics in the U.S. drift away from Church each year.4
- One-third to one-half of Catholic marriages now ends in divorce.4
- 72% of Catholics have not tried to win a convert to Christ.4
- For every four Protestants, there is one convert. For Catholics, the numbers were 250 to one. That is about one convert for every 807 Catholics.4
- If every Catholic brought one person into the Church each year, it would only take only three years to be a totally Catholic society.4
Archbishop Stanislaw Rylko, President of the Pontifical Council for the Laity, reiterated the present state of the world's spirituality when he addressed a congress of ecclesial movements on March 9, 2006. He pointed out the obstacles that face the Church's evangelizing efforts.
- An expanding secularization and an authentic dictatorship of relativism (Benedict XVI): This sad truth manifests itself in a suppression of any public religious expression and the belief that truth is relative only to the individual who wants to believe it. Immoral acts such as abortion, euthanasia and gay marriage are seen as legitimate choices and the rights of a free society. The new god of the secular world is the feeding of one's appetites.
- In the vacuum left by the suppression of traditional Christian religion an invasion of religious sects and New Age attitudes and lifestyles has occurred. Pseudo religious phenomena such as magic and the occult have now come into vogue. New age philosophies propose that individuals are the center of their own universes and no rules apply to anyone.
- Lack of religious formation: Children are being brought up in faithless households without Christian values or boundaries to their behaviors. The liberal press, television, and other media have become the new source for education and values, emphasizing money, power, and social position. While many parents are distracted pursuing their own goals, the TV has become their children's default educator.
3 World Christian Encylopedia's Comparative Study of Churches and Religions in the Modern World
4 Claveau, Victor The 7% Solution, A Guide to Evangelization at the Parish, Community or Diocesan Level
Our History:
Our Catholics Come Home program began in 1998, with the creation of a multimedia campaign for the Diocese of Phoenix, Arizona (USA). In a matter of only a few weeks, the ads, blessed by God's grace, helped 3,000 inactive souls return to their Catholic faith!
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Imagine 3,000 inactive parishioners returned to church in a three week multi-media campaign, at a cost of only $10 per soul!
Soon afterward, the Catholics Come Home video resources were shared with other parishes and diocese across the United States, then with other countries. This campaign helped countless inactive Catholics rediscover the Catholic faith and return home.
Today, our team at Catholics Come Home, Inc. combines the effectiveness of mass media outreach, with the ease of web-based fulfillment, to create a highly effective evangelism effort never before seen in our country! After viewing our inviting and inspiring television commercials, viewers are directed to visit the catholicscomehome.org website to learn more about the Catholic faith, and help them find a local parish and return home.
What We Do
Our Television campaigns:
Imagine seeing inspiring Catholic messages on prominent programs every day, every year, and on primetime TV shows, major sports events, popular cable programs. CatholicsComeHome.org runs these inspiring commercials on non-Christian, mainstream networks and cable channels where millions of un-churched souls are watching.
Our team of Catholic media professionals and business leaders have witnessed that no other single advertising medium has the reach and impact of television.
- The average American watches more than 4 hours of television each day and 98.2% of all U.S. households own at least one television.5
- A 2006 study shows that students recalled 2 minute ads better than a full length news story.6
The campaigns consist of the following essential television commercials.
