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Catholic Group Fires Back at Newsweek Cover Story
PR Web ^ | pril 8, 2009

Posted on 04/09/2009 10:40:30 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler

Atlanta, GA (PRWEB) April 8, 2009 - An estimated 92,000 inactive Catholics in the Phoenix Diocese have come home to the church in the last year.

Take that Newsweek!

CatholicsComeHome.org, an international apostolate welcoming fallen away, inactive and non-Catholics home to the church, has the real facts about the state of Christian America. While Newsweek magazine prints yet another doom and gloom article on Christianity and its future in the April 13 article proclaiming "The End of Christian America," CatholicsComeHome.org is witnessing the greatest return to the Catholic faith in recent times.

How did it happen? Simply by airing TV commercials inviting people to come home.

(Excerpt) Read more at prweb.com ...


TOPICS: Catholic; Current Events; General Discusssion; Religion & Culture
KEYWORDS: catholic; catholics; newsweek; returning

www.CatholicsComeHome.org


1 posted on 04/09/2009 10:40:30 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler
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To: Jeff Chandler

Who reads Newsweak?


2 posted on 04/09/2009 10:42:27 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: Jeff Chandler

I can state with absolute certainty that “News”week will be dead LONG before the demise of Christianity.


3 posted on 04/09/2009 10:42:30 AM PDT by Adams
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To: Jeff Chandler

“The end of Christian America”? The last I looked it was the end of Newsweek, and Time, and a few dozen lib newspapers coast to coast.


4 posted on 04/09/2009 10:44:04 AM PDT by BlueStateBlues (Blue State for business, Red State at heart.........2012--can't come soon enough.)
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To: b4its2late

“Who reads Newsweak?”

I think just the staff.

This is standard issue; “The Easter-Americans-No-Longer-Believe-In-Jesus Issue”.

Yhey think because they print it that people will believe it.


5 posted on 04/09/2009 10:45:25 AM PDT by incredulous joe
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To: Jeff Chandler
An estimated 92,000 inactive Catholics in the Phoenix Diocese have come home to the church in the last year.

Hopefully this translates into a spike in church attendance numbers....

Church-Going Among U.S. Catholics Slides to Tie Protestants

According to Gallup Poll trends on church attendance among American Christians, weekly attendance among Protestants has been fairly steady over the past six decades, averaging 42% in 1955 versus 45% in the middle of the current decade. However, attendance among Roman Catholics dropped from 75% to 45% over the same period.

6 posted on 04/09/2009 10:47:45 AM PDT by Alex Murphy (Presbyterians often forget that John Knox had been a Sunday bowler.)
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Hopefully this translates into a spike in church attendance numbers....

It certainly addresses it.

7 posted on 04/09/2009 11:10:02 AM PDT by Jeff Chandler (Obama is dead wrong on the first principle of justice: innocent human life deserves protection.)
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To: incredulous joe

I think you are correct.


8 posted on 04/09/2009 11:26:04 AM PDT by b4its2late (Ignorance allows liberalism to prosper.)
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To: b4its2late

Who reads Newsweek?

Only people in hospital waiting rooms.


9 posted on 04/09/2009 3:26:24 PM PDT by vladimir998 (Ignorance of Scripture is ignorance of Christ. St. Jerome)
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