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Companion blog to The Catholic Sun, newspaper of the Diocese of Phoenix.
March 4, 2011

Weekend Calendar: March 4-6

Posted by : ambria

On deck: spring plays, movie reviews, “Catholics Matter” program, Hike for the Homeless, lessons in global solidarity, Crozier Gala, a podcast to help you prepare for Sunday’s Mass readings and Catholics Come Home. “Museum,”  Xavier/Brophy spring play — 7 p.m. March 4 and 1:30 and 7 p.m. March 5. Admission: $7. Details. “Joseph and the [...]


December 13, 2010

The New Evangelization and TV

Posted by : ambria
Filed under : Media/Arts, Nation/World, Video

Catholics Come Home, a lay Catholic apostolate aimed at bringing fallen away Catholics back to the Church and strengthening the faith journey of active Catholics, will be featured in a two-part series dedicated to The New Evangelization starting today. Tom Peterson, its founder and a longtime Phoenix Catholic, will be on EWTN TV‘s “Women of [...]


August 6, 2010

Preview new TV ads for Catholic faith

Posted by : ambria
Filed under : Media/Arts, Nation/World, Video

One of Pope Benedict XVI’s mission prayer intentions this month is “That the Church may be a ‘home’ for all people,” according to a recent Catholics Come Home news release. And the Catholic media apostolate, which used Phoenix as a test market for its television commercials targeting the fallen-away demographic in 2008, continues its efforts [...]


December 22, 2009

New blog reaches fallen away Catholics

Posted by : ambria

I happened to run across a relatively new blog today. It’s from Catholics Come Home, the lay apostolate that uses Mass media– namely TV commercials  and an interactive Web site– to reach fallen away Catholics. CatholicsComeHome.org has been a domain name since 2004 and went live in 2008. People in every U.S. state and some [...]


July 8, 2008

Catholics Come Home

Posted by : J.D. Long-García
Filed under : From the Staff, Local News

Zenit, a non-proft agency that covers Catholic Church news, reported on the Catholics Come Home campaign today. The campaign, an effort by the Catholic apostolate of the same name, aired nearly 1,000 television commercials on Phoenix local and cable networks during Lent. The commercials detailed the good works of the Catholic Church throughout history. They [...]