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Oct 27, 2005 2:41 pm US/Central
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A Pint With Your Priest: Church Books Bar
MANCHESTER, N.H. (AP) ―
So, these two priests walk into a bar ... No joke. A Roman Catholic parish has booked four talks at a local bar in an effort to reach out to 20- and 30-somethings who don't go to church. Alcohol will be served.
The Ste. Marie Parish's first presentation, "Naked & Without Shame," is scheduled for Thursday and will deal with Catholic views on sexuality, contraception and sex and marriage.
Other talks scheduled at the Strange Brew Tavern are entitled "Clothed With Love," "It Ain't Easy Being Catholic Today," and "Put Out Into the Deep."
"We're trying to reach out to people that don't go to church or maybe are lapsed Catholics," said Chris Paul," evangelist at Ste. Marie. "The idea is just to find a different atmosphere that will reach different people."
The parish borrowed the idea from the Theology on Tap campaign started nearly 25 years ago in the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Many of the parents of today's younger generation never came to church or gave their children values from that experience, said the Rev. Marc Montminy. "So they're looking for something," he said. "And they can't find it, because I know they're looking in all the wrong places."
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