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  • The Catholic Church is Losing Millions of Parishioners

    Meet the Former Priest Who Says the Vatican is to Blame

    Tom Kane knew his calling was to be a priest. And from his days in a seminary through his early years serving at a college, he couldn’t have been happier. But the longer he remained a priest, the more disillusioned he became with the Vatican’s conservative doctrines, its disconnect with the poor and its male-dominated authoritarianism. Finally, after a decade of service, he left the Church, and for a time, became an atheist.

    Kane isn’t alone in his dissatisfaction with the Church. In recent years millions of 18- to 29 year-old Catholics—fed up with the sexual abuse scandals and the bias against gays and women—have also rejected Catholicism and left the Church.  The problem is so bad, says one study, that if ex-Catholics were counted as their own religious group, they would be the third-largest denomination in the U.S.

    Invite Kane on your show to examine this growing problem to discuss:

    • 3 things the Church needs to do to become relevant in 2014.
    • What Pope Francis I is saying about the Church’s shortcomings.
    • How the Vatican continues to alienate nuns and Catholics, worldwide.

    CREDENTIALS: Former priest Tom Kane left the Church after becoming disillusioned with the Vatican’s out-of-date doctrines. Since then he’s been a professor, public relations executive, consultant and newspaper
    editor. His second book is GOOD CHURCH BAD CHURCH: One Priest’s Indictment Against the Vatican.

    AVAILABILITY: PA, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
    CONTACT: Tom Kane, (570) 253-8475 (PA); tkane@ptd.net; www.tomkane.net

  • Your Qualifications Aren’t What Matter Most

    5 Interviewing Secrets Your Competition Doesn’t Know

    Roughly 11 million Americans are unemployed and there are about 8 million fewer jobs than we need. Hundreds of applicants are going after every position you want. How can you make sure you’re the one who wins the job?

    Tom Payne says the most important thing is to forget everything you think you know about interviewing because nearly all job seekers go about it all wrong, blowing it at the most basic level. For more than 10 years, people who have learned his secrets have beaten the competition… even competitors with more impressive backgrounds and qualifications.

    Payne will share:

    • The No. 1 thing that influences hiring decisions.
    • The 5 biggest interviewing mistakes that nearly everyone makes.
    • Winning answers to “suicide questions” like, what are your weaknesses? (Follow Payne’s advice and they won’t remember you have any.)
    • How to be the one applicant who doesn’t botch the response to “Tell me about yourself.”
    • Style trumps substance: Why the way you tell your story is the key to making an impression and getting hired.

    CREDENTIALS: Tom Payne is president of Essential Growth Solutions, a management consulting firm. He has coached thousands of people in his interviewing system through workshops, individual sessions and his own Web Talk Radio show, You’re Hired!. He is a volunteer coach for the Career Transitions Center of Chicago and the Elam Davies Social Services Center. His book is NO MEDAL FOR SECOND PLACE. Visit www.tompayne.com and
    www.webtalkradio.net/internet-talk-radio/youre-hired/.

    AVAILABILITY: IL, nationwide by arrangement and via telephone
    CONTACT: Tom Payne, (312) 420-0730 (IL)