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Who’s Coming Home?
According to a number of CCH Partner Dioceses, over 300,000 souls “came home”, and Mass attendance increased an average of 10% following Catholics Come Home campaigns. Check out our interactive map to see a sampling of some of the dioceses that have run the Catholics Come Home program and what they’ve had to report back!
Has your diocese had Catholics Come Home? If you want to see CCH television commercials and people return to the Church in your area, contact your diocese and let them know!
Thank you for your continued support of Catholics Come Home. God bless you!
Happy Feast of St. Gregory the Great!
St. Gregory the Great truly was a saint of “great” accomplishments. But most importantly, St. Gregory accepted God’s will for him with deep humility and a servant’s heart.
Read more about the life of St. Gregory the Great. One of the things he is known for is strengthening respect for Catholic doctrine among the faithful. How well do you know your Catholic doctrine? Take a moment to learn how to better explain and defend Catholic Church teachings at CatholicsComeHome.org!
St. Gregory the Great, pray for us!
CCH Featured Question
The Bible says to call no man Father, so why do we call our priests ‘Father’?
Find out the answer here!
Check out more of our Q&A section to learn what Catholics believe or how to defend and explain your Catholic Faith at CatholicsComeHome.org!
Happy Feasts of Saints Monica and Augustine!
At Catholics Come Home, we hear from many parents who continually pray for their children to return to the Catholic Church. There are few people who understand these parents’ hearts and struggles better than St. Monica.
St. Monica prayed unceasingly, fasted, and wept for the conversion of her son, Augustine, back to the Catholic Faith from his wayward lifestyle. Before St. Monica’s death, St. Augustine became a practicing Catholic–and he would later go on to become one of the greatest bishops and theologians the Church has ever seen.
“I do not know what there is left for me to do or why I am still here, all my hopes in this world being now fulfilled. All I wished for was that I might see you a Catholic and a child of Heaven. God granted me even more than this in making you despise earthly felicity and consecrate yourself to His service.” -St. Monica to St. Augustine
If you have children away from the Church (or any family or close friends), pray to St. Monica! In her own words: “Nothing is far from God.”
St. Monica (feast day: August 27) and St. Augustine (feast day: August 28), pray for us!
Invite people home to Rome on the road!
Do you have a Catholics Come Home car magnet on your car? If not, order a car magnet today for you and a friend and evangelize in traffic!
“Just want to let you know that a few days after I put my recently-purchased Catholics Come Home magnet on my car, someone stopped me in the grocery store parking lot to discuss it. He said he was thinking about coming back to Mass. I knew your magnet was going to impact someone; that’s why I wanted to display it. I just didn’t know I was going to get a personal response. Keep up the good work!!!” -Evelyn S. Park Forest, IL
Thank you for supporting Catholics Come Home with your small donation, and for helping invite more Catholics home to the Church!
Feast of the Queenship of Mary
“The feast is a logical follow-up to the Assumption and is now celebrated on the octave day of that feast. In his encyclical To the Queen of Heaven, Pius XII points out that Mary deserves the title because she is Mother of God, because she is closely associated as the New Eve with Jesus’ redemptive work, because of her preeminent perfection and because of her intercessory power.” -read more from AmericanCatholic.org.
Where in Scripture do we see Mary as Queen Mother? Check out CCH theological advisory board member Dr. Scott Hahn’s article: Mary, Holy Mother.
How are you celebrating Mary’s Queenship in your life and home today?
Real People, Real Stories
Check out the testimonials page of our CatholicsComeHome.org website. Do you know anyone away from the Church who has a story like this? Consider inviting them to come to Mass with you. Ask them if they’ve thought about returning to the Catholic Church, and invite them home.
Human Personhood Begins at Conception
How do you respond to arguments that an unborn child is not a human person yet? Learn how in CCH theological advisory board member Dr. Peter Kreeft’s article, “Human Personhood Begins at Conception.”
“The issue I have been asked to argue, the personhood of the fetus, is triply crucial. It is crucial for abortion, abortion is crucial for medical ethics, and medical ethics is crucial for the future of our civilization…”
Read more about abortion and see pro-life commercials by visiting this page of our CatholicsComeHome.org website.
CCH Featured Apologetic Question
Why can’t non-Catholics receive Holy Communion in the Catholic Church?
Find out the answer here!
Learn how to answer more objections to Catholic teachings at CatholicsComeHome.org!