Catholic Media Journal

I mentioned in my Church and the Media class this morning that I have been a member of the Building Committee for Triumph of the Cross, a new parish church which would also be the new cathedral for the Diocese of Steubenville. The Building Committee included members from the six parishes in the city of [...]

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Man’s genius has, with God’s help, produced marvellous technical inventions from creation, especially in our times. The Church, our mother, is particularly interested in those which directly touch man’s spirit and which have opened up new avenues of easy communication of all kinds of news, of ideas and orientations. Chief among them are those means [...]

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At the Vatican on February 12, 1931, radio pioneer Guglielmo Marconi spoke these historic words: I have the highest honor of announcing that in only a matter of seconds the Supreme Pontiff, Pope Pius XI, will inaugurate the Radio Station of the Vatican City State. The electric radio waves will transport to all the world [...]

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The oldest of the mass media used today by the Vatican is L’Osservatore Romano, the Vatican’s newspaper, first published in 1861. Distributed throughout the world, weekly editions are published in 6 different languages and a Polish edition is published monthly. The Vatican’s website offers a brief history of the newspaper that highlights several undoubtedly intriguing [...]

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Shortly after the death of Pope John Paul II in 2005, PBS, the USA’s Public Television Service, and Britain’s BBC produced a program titled White Smoke which addressed some of the issues facing the Church as we waited for the start of the conclave of Cardinals to elect the new Pope. One of the show’s [...]

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