The Archdiocese is launching a campaign to bring people back. Or they might feel the old-fashioned church is irrelevant in 1999. Well, the Roman Catholic Church wants to change people s minds in the new millennium. I would like to invite those of you who have been away from the Catholic Church to come home, said Philadelphia s Archbishop Anthony Cardinal Bevilacqua. You may have seen the television advertisements from the Cardinal.
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It s anonymous, and they re getting over 1,000 calls a week. We ask them what s on their mind, said Monsignor Charles Devlin, of the Philadelphia Archdiocese. Marriage problems, loneliness, unhappiness. People call with all types of problems. But over 20 percent of the calls come from people of other faiths.