Articles on this issue "media"
An editor with the Al Jazeera television station has praise for John Paul II, contending that he was "not only the Pope of Catholics." Imad El Atrache, editor in chief of the Brussels' office …
read moreAsiaNews, an Internet news agency reporting on the Church in China and surrounding countries, is celebrating its second anniversary. The news group, an agency of the Pontifical Institute for …
read moreThe most effective medicine to alleviate drug addiction could be the Eucharist, suggests the founder of the Community of the Cenacle. Sister Elvira Petrozzi, addressing the Synod of Bishops …
read moreThe Catholic news agency ACI Prensa, which specializes in information on the Church in the Americas, is celebrating its 25th anniversary. Since October 2003, it has published an English …
read moreThe Hispanic community forms close to 40% of the Catholic population in the United States. Yet, there is only one Hispanic priest for every 9,925 Hispanic Catholics. These statistics reveal an …
read moreThe director of the Vatican press office says that he will continue in his post "a while longer, but I still don't know how much longer." "I will continue until the Pope accepts that a change …
read moreA challenge facing Benedict XVI will be to communicate with and through the media, says the president of SIGNIS, the World Catholic Association for Communication. Father Peter Malone, a …
read moreAsiaNews agency has launched a campaign to liberate 19 bishops and 18 priests arrested or otherwise prevented from carrying out their ministry in China. The news service of the Pontifical …
read moreThe head of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications questioned why newspapers use unnamed Vatican sources when reporting on the Holy See. "If a person expresses his view, his first …
read moreJohn Paul II in a new apostolic letter calls the entire Church to a pastoral and cultural "revision" of its presence in and attitude toward the media. In the letter, made public today, the …
read moreA course for the spiritual renewal of priests is being offered in Jerusalem. The course, entitled "'Follow me!' -- In the Footsteps of Christ in the Holy Land," is being promoted by the …
read moreA total of 114 channels will transmit John Paul II's Christmas Day message and blessing to 72 countries, including some Islamic nations. The transmission that will take place at midday …
read moreJohn Paul II thanked Joaquín Navarro Valls personally for his 20 years of service as director of the Press Office of the Holy See. Vatican sources reported that during a private audience …
read moreIt was 1974 when Dr. Joaquín Navarro Valls, together with Giovanni Caprile, stirred a public debate about the scant official information available on the Synod on Evangelization. The relator …
read moreChristian missionary work has made a key contribution to development, says one of the best-known missionaries, Italian Father Piero Gheddo of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions. "I …
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