Lapsed Catholics will be wooed as never before later this year when the church in Australia launches Catholics Come Home, a media campaign credited with lifting mass attendances in the US by up to 17 per cent.

Archbishop of Sydney George Pell is sending a team to Chicago to study and replicate the program, which tells non-practising Catholics: "There is a big family that loves you and misses you. It's a wonderful adventure - you have nothing to lose and everything to gain - and we say welcome home."

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