Catholic Media Journal

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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Pope Benedict XVI arrived in Washington today, and so did our Franciscan University of Steubenville Media crew. There are 12 of us, and after a late departure from Steubenville - I had to switch to another rental van because of mechanical difficulties - we arrived at the site of our first video story: The John Paul II Cultural Center near [...]

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In this edition of the Catholic Media Journal Podcast we look ahead to Pope Benedict XVI’s U.S. visit, hearing from Franciscan University of Steubenville’s Dr. Alan Schreck with some thoughts about Pope Benedict and authentic Church Renewal. (5:45)

The interview with Alan Schreck is an excerpt from an episode of Spirit and Life: The Franciscan Conferences Podcast, a bi-weekly podcast from Franciscan [...]

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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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One year ago today, March 14, 2007, I was in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans with 8 Franciscan University of Steubenville students. We were on a Spring Break “Media Mission” to the areas hit by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Although a year and a half had gone by and much recovery and rebuilding [...]

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