Catholic Answers Tracts

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Does anyone know how Catholic Answers recommends distributing the tracts they produce?
 
One way is to visit with your parish Priest and ask his permission to leave several copies at the back of the Church, or in the Narthex (entrance area). I have done that a couple times.
 
That’s not a bad idea, but how would that help people that are not yet Catholic? I mean I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, I’m just saying, if you want to evangelise, you have to actually talk to non Catholics.
 
Well, the case could be made that Catholics need evangelized as well. If they were perhaps fewer of them would leave the Church.
 
Good point, Adam. My particular parish is located in downtown Houston and is a historical landmark, so we get non-Catholic (and sometimes non-Christian) visitors all the time. And I would agree with Fredysstairs that even some Catholics need evangelizing.
For the typical parish where you don’t see many non-Catholic visitors, maybe it would be good to hook up with one of the Saint Paul Street Evangelization teams (or form one) and hand out the pamphlets there?

Or take this person’s idea about hanging info-packs on doorknobs?
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Evangelizing—what would you include in a bag to hang on door knobs in your neighborhood to evangelize about the Catholic church/Faith (With pastor approval)? Of course a recent Church bulletin, a few prayer cards, Rosary & pamphlet on how to say the Rosary. So what else is a MUST to include for those evangelization bags?
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adamhovey1988 said:
That’s not a bad idea, but how would that help people that are not yet Catholic? I mean I’m not saying it’s a bad idea, I’m just saying, if you want to evangelise, you have to actually talk to non Catholics.
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That’s true. I look at such resources more as means to equip the parishioners to talk to non-Catholics about the Catholic faith rather than as tools of direct evangelization. There’s a lot of people in the pews—even faithful, life-long Catholics—who struggle to find the words to explain Catholic teachings and practice to others.

Drive-by pamphleting is seldom an effective evangelization strategy (by itself). People are more often converted by their interactions with other people rather than a pamphlet.
 
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