Catholic Media Journal

This is an amazing video by Francis Gardler, a graduate student at Ohio University, which is meaningful on many levels, for all of us involved in communications and education. More than other media sources, the Church has the call and responsibility to share the human condition and respond to the very real needs in our [...]

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During the past three weeks we’ve seen that many commercial newspapers in major cities stop printing, with many more announcing cutbacks in the number days they’ll print their paper, hoping readers will turn to their websites. More announcements like these are expected.
Magazines are also cutting back their frequency of printing. A newsweekly I’ve read [...]

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In one of his Pope2008.com blog posts last month, Tim Drake mentioned a column about Pope Benedict XVI by Peggy Noonan, but first he wrote
Reading Peggy Noonan is about as close as it comes to perfection. At least that’s my opinion. After I’m done reading her work, I find that I want to go back [...]

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After Pope Benedict’s April 17, 2008 address to Catholic University leaders, National Catholic Register’s Tim Drake returned from the Catholic University of America campus to the Media Center where I saw him doing a phone interview with Fr. Terence Henry, TOR, president of Franciscan University of Steubenville.

Later in the evening, Tim posted his first YouTube video [...]

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The National Catholic Register’s website posted some comments by Fr. Owen Kerns, LC, Publisher of the Register, about some of the New Media work they’re doing – and mentioned some things we did in our Church & Media class last week in connection with Tim Drake’s Pope2008.com blog:
But here’s the most unusual attention [we've received about the blog]: Professor [...]

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