29-12-09
“Catholics Come Home” to their parish for Christmas
AMERICA/UNITED STATES - “Catholics Come Home” to their parish for Christmas
The CCH advertising campaign includes three different types of commercials, from 30 seconds to two minutes in length, aired at “prime-time hours” that present Catholicism from various viewpoints. One of the ads shows all the good that the Catholic Church has offered and continues to offer society, another shows someone at the end of their life reflecting on how they have lived it until that moment, and others are simply brief testimonies from people who have returned to the practice of their faith. Dioceses across the nation are launching the Catholics Come Home program either this Advent or during Lent next spring. In the Archdiocese of Chicago, for example, the ads will be appearing on all the major television networks throughout the area in English, Polish and Spanish.
The Atlanta-based “Catholics Come Home” was founded by Tom Peterson who, after having himself “returned home” to the Catholic faith, felt called to found Catholics Come Home, Inc. and VirtueMedia, Inc., educational not-for-profit apostolates, dedicated to promoting Catholic evangelization and the sanctity of human life. Its first Catholic evangelism messages began airing on television in 1998, in preparation for the Jubilee 2000. In 2008, Catholics Come Home began their ads and interactive website approach to evangelization for three weeks during Lent in the Diocese of Phoenix (Arizona), which has 1.1 million Catholics. In less than three weeks, 3,000 Catholics in the Diocese had returned to the Church. As Peterson himself comments: “No creative marketing team could possibly yield these miraculous results. This is truly an apostolic movement designed and directed by the Holy Spirit. Our invitation is simple: ‘We are Catholic. Welcome Home’.”
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11-11-09
Vaticaan daagt wetenschappers uit tot bezinning over buitenaards leven
VATICAAN DAAGT WETENSCHAPPERS UIT TOT BEZINNING OVER BUITENAARDS LEVEN
Pauselijk Observatorium
VATICAAN (KerkNet/CNA/AFP/Le Figaro) – Wetenschappers bogen zich op initiatief van de Pauselijke Academie voor Wetenschappen over de mogelijkheid van buitenaards leven. Het vijfdaags congres over astrobiologie met wetenschappers uit verschillende disciplines vond plaats naar aanleiding van het ‘Jaar van de Astronomie’.
Directeur José Gabriel Funes van de Vaticaanse Sterrenwacht stelt dat speculeren over buitenaards leven in alle geval zinvol is, omdat het ons ook veel belangrijke dingen leert over onze wereld. Dat heeft ook theologische en filosofische implicaties.
Chris Impey van de Universiteit van Arizona is minder sceptisch over buitenaards leven. Hij acht het waarschijnlijk dat wij al binnen vijf of tien jaar en in alle geval binnen afzienbare tijd leven in ons zonnestelsel of elders zullen ontdekken. Dat zal ook grote gevolgen hebben voor het zelfbeeld van de mens. Impey voelt zich gesterkt door de enorme wetenschappelijke vooruitgang, maar ook door het feit dat er voor leven slechts nood is aan koolstof, energie en water.
“Pas in 1995 werd de eerste planeet buiten ons zonnestelsel ontdekt. Vandaag kennen wij er 400”, argumenteert hij zijn optimisme.
(Kerknet)
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