TOM PETERSON built his career as an award---winning national corporate advertising executive over the last thirty years. He is the founder of VirtueMedia.org and CatholicsComeHome.org. He lectures frequently and has presented at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Australian Media Conference, the Australian Bishops Plenary Meeting, and at various Pontifical Councils at the Vatican. Tom and his apostolates have made multiple appearances on Fox News and EWTN, and been featured in over three hundred media venues worldwide.
"We are in the midst of a New Evangelization; and I believe this
book is a signal moment in its success. It is also a sign that will
lead many folks back home to the family of God, which is Catholic
Church."
--Dr. Scott W. Hahn, author of The Lamb's Supper and Signs of
Life
This book's powerful message contains both a heartfelt invitation
-- "Catholics, come home!" -- and an encouraging statement of an
often overlooked fact -- "Catholics come home!" With enthusiasm,
humility, and wisdom born of his own lived experience Tom Peterson
lays out the salient reasons for both.
--Patrick Madrid, host of the "Right Here, Right Now" show on
EWTN's Global Radio Network, author of Envoy for Christ: 25 Years
as a Catholic Apologist "Catholics Come Home is a powerful
sacramental, a means of grace. It is a willing, waiting taxi to
take us home, to our home away from Home, the Catholic Church, the
Mystical Body of Christ."
--Dr. Peter Kreeft, author of Handbook of Christian Apologetics
"The mission of Tom Peterson and Catholics Come Home to bring souls
home to Jesus and the church is critically important during this
challenging time in our history. I fully support this new
evangelization project."
--Rick Warren, author of The Purpose Driven Life
"Catholics Come Home inspires each of us to share God's love with
others, in order to help change the world for the better, for
eternity!"
- Roma Downey, actress and co-producer of the History Channel
series The Bible
"[Tom Peterson] has a statistically verifiable program of bringing
people back to the Church."
- Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan, Archbishop of New York "I highly
recommend Catholics Come Home, no matter what your faith background
or where you are on your spiritual journey. This book is destined
to be a classic. What Tom and Catholics Come Home have done for
Catholicism is far above and beyond the call of duty. You can't
take your money to heaven with you, but you can take your
children!"
-Coach Lou Holtz "This is an important book at an important time.
Readers need to come home to Catholics Come Home."
-Michael Coren, Author & broadcaster Reader of Catholics Come Home
book, below. His amazing testimonial:
First, I want to say thank you for putting pen to paper in a way
that was beyond compression! I literally could not stop reading
your book until it was over, and even then I was wanting more! Well
done sir! I lost my Faith roughly 25 years ago. Father Stan was
comforting me about losing my high school sweetheart. I was
suddenly alone. Father Stan said to me, "It was God's will." I
couldn't understand that, I couldn't accept it. I got mad and said
to hell with God and my family and moved to Vancouver never to look
back. 5 years ago, I was hit by a car as I crossed the street on my
way to work. I didn't know it, but that day, my life changed. I was
okay, no broken bones, nothing damaged internally. However, what I
didn't know until several months later was while in the hospital, I
managed to contract MSRA, an infection in my legs that left me
quarantined from almost all of society. My only companions during
this time were nurses covered from head to toe in plastic and face
masks. My friends, gone. My work, gone. Honestly, I felt very much
alone in this world. Then the infection turned for the worse, the
pain was unbearable that I ended up on Morphine in order to just
move my legs. Honestly, I lay in a hospital or in bed, and I cursed
and swore at God and hated every moment of being alive. I blamed
God for not just killing me; instead he had to torture me. I spent
nights in tears cursing God and my heritage; I was raised as a
traditional Italian Catholic. I remember those nights, cursing God
and Jesus like they were yesterday. I remember I was in so much
pain and being all alone I was sad and upset. Even today I still
teary eyed thinking that I could have been full of so much hate for
God and Jesus. Fifteen months later, my legs healed, and I was
finally able to start looking for work again. I still felt bitter
towards God for leaving me all alone in this world. What changed?
In the fall of 2012, I started to see the Catholics Come Home
commercials on TV. At first I was not interested or the least bit
curious about getting back to my Faith. Then at Christmas something
"snapped." I don't know what it was, but I knew, I knew that I had
to come back to God. I saw several of these ads on TV and inside
something was stirring in my soul. In February I managed the
courage to purchase the Catholics Come Home digital book, and since
then, I have not been able to put the Gospel down. First thing I
did, I prayed for forgiveness at my foolishness for what happened
after the car accident. I begged for mercy, I cried I was so
ashamed and so sorry for bringing so much pain to God and Jesus. I
pray every morning and every night, and when I can remember,
mid-day as well. I have read the book Catholics Come Home, then I
read "Trustful Surrender to Divine Providence" and that's when
everything lit up. I understood what Father Stan was trying to tell
me all those years ago. I understood what and why the car accident.
The pain and suffering. I will admit, I cried. I cried and begged
for forgiveness for not understanding and being so foolish. I have
been a hermit for over 5 years, meeting new people is something of
a challenge for me. But I am thankful, that one day very soon; I
will be in mass again. (Hopefully very very soon!) Now you know my
story. I think if Catholics Come Home had not been there, I
probably would have continued to drift and disappear.
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