In case you didn’t already know, December 16th marks the beginning of a 3-week, $3.5 million dollar advertisement campaign run by the Catholic Church, called “Catholics Come Home.”  Considered to be one of the most expensive religious media blitzes in the history of the United States, this campaign will be run until January 8th with over 400 television ads strategically placed for maximum viewing.

The core message?  ”As our site says, coming home to the Catholic Church has never been easier!”

The target audience? Primarily men and women who grew up Catholic, but are now inactive or “lapsed” (a gentler word for “backslidden”).  Of course, in this mix are those who have become Christians.

Since the Second Vatican Council (1962-1965), there has been a marked difference in the way the Catholic Church has approached its wayward brethren.   While it has attempted to woo the gullible, it has also maintained a strident, uncompromising stance on its core issues.  While mainstream churches, like that of Anglicanism, can’t seem to find enough issues to compromise on, the Catholic Church has simply had to wait in the wings to snap up fleeing members who felt their church was becoming to lax on things like homosexuality.

Because the vast majority of Christians simply aren’t aware of or are indifferent to their church’s core teachings, let alone the teachings of the Catholic Church, they are easy prey for those who seek to blur the lines.  You may have heard the pleas of “doctrine only divides”, and therefore, is something that should be laid aside in the interests of unity.  After all, it’s the same Jesus isn’t it?

Most people have no idea as to why there was ever a Reformation in the first place, let alone the things that took place during the Inquisitions.  Because we are centuries removed, and the religious landscape has become less physically threatening, many have lowered their guards.  Some evangelical Christians are even working to reverse the Protestant Reformation.  While Christians are willing to compromise, the Catholic Church stands firm, though with arms open to all willing to “come home”.

When you visit the Catholics Come Home website, you won’t see presentations from priests, cardinals or the pope, but normal, everyday people who made the switch and are so happy they did.  Even the language is decidedly evangelical in nature in an attempt to shed what many have in mind with they think of the mass.

As we proceed to the close of this age, the greatest deception will not be in the arena of politics, but in religion.  As the apostle John tells us:

And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth; and he had two horns like a lamb, and he spake as a dragon.

With a facade of gentleness, nice-ness and diplomacy (a “lamb”), the true nature of this deception is made clear.  It originates from the Devil (a “dragon”).

In Matthew 24, it is interesting that the Lord’s first words, when describing the scene that marks His second coming, were: “Take heed that no man deceive you.”  This is repeated twice in the same chapter.  May we truly take heed and walk in the light of Christ.

For more information on false Catholic teachings, here is a good place to start.

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