It’s Been 17 years Since My Last Confession…

Church Tries to Lure Catholics Back to the Confessional RNS’ Daniel Burke writes on Washington Archibishop Donald Wuerl’s efforts to bring Catholics back to the confessional during Lent, in this week’s full-text article, linked above. Quote: …in his first major enterprise in the nation’s capital, the archbishop unleashed a media blitz on Ash Wednesday-papering the […]

Church Tries to Lure Catholics Back to the Confessional

RNS’ Daniel Burke writes on Washington Archibishop Donald Wuerl’s efforts to bring Catholics back to the confessional during Lent, in this week’s full-text article, linked above.

Quote:


…in his first major enterprise in the nation’s capital, the archbishop unleashed a media blitz on Ash Wednesday-papering the archdiocese with 100,000 brochures, placing ads on the radio and in public transportation hubs, and erecting a billboard with the message “The Light Is On For You” along a major Washington-area highway. Yesterday’s fire and brimstone are this year’s marketing campaign.

Wuerl said his plan was hatched after talking to penitents who had confessed after many years away from the sacrament. In priestly parlance, this is called catching the “big fish.” As in, “I landed a 17-year fishâÂ?¦.”

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