Radio Interview: Global Catholic Communications August 5, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, Local News, News, Radio Interview Catholic Review Editor Christopher Gunty talks with two stalwarts of Catholic communications to discuss the challenges of communicating today.
Communicators advised to ‘challenge your assumptions’ for reaching Latino Catholics August 5, 2024By Maria Wiering OSV News Filed Under: Journalism, News, World News Earnestly listening to Latino Catholics in the church, including their perspectives in Catholic content, and showing their diversity in media visuals are crucial ways for Catholic media to reach those audiences, Latino Catholic leaders told Catholic communications professionals during a panel discussion June 20.
Tony Spence, Catholic journalism veteran, dies at 71; called his work ‘a vocation I truly love’ July 30, 2024By Kurt Jensen OSV News Filed Under: Journalism, News, Obituaries, World News Anthony J. “Tony” Spence, former director and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Service, died July 28 in Nashville, Tennessee, after a long illness. He was 71. “The Catholic Media Association is grateful to God for the life of Tony Spence,” Gretchen R. Crowe, editor-in-chief of OSV News and president of the CMA board, and Rob DeFrancesco, […]
Nicaraguan government removes Radio María from airwaves July 12, 2024By David Agren OSV News Filed Under: Journalism, News, World News The Nicaraguan government closed the country’s most prominent Catholic radio station as the Sandinista regime continues to persecute the church and increasingly infringe on citizens’ religious freedom and the ability to worship.
Catholic Review wins 53 awards for 2023 work, captures top prizes from MDDC again June 26, 2024By Catholic Review Staff Catholic Review Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, Local News, News Catholic Review Media received 53 awards from various press associations for work published in 2023, including top honors from the Maryland-Delaware-D.C. Press Association as News Organization of the Year for the sixth year in a row.
Florida Catholic’s Ana Rodriguez-Soto wins 2024 St. Francis de Sales Award June 24, 2024By Maria-Pia Negro Chin OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News Ana Rodriguez-Soto, who recently retired as editor of the Florida Catholic, Miami edition, is the recipient of the 2024 St. Francis de Sales Award from the Catholic Media Association.
Vatican communications prefect on using Rupnik art: ‘I don’t think we have to throw stones’ June 22, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, Vatican, World News On the final day of the Catholic Media Conference in Atlanta, the prefect of the Vatican’s Dicastery for Communication addressed questions posed by journalists about the dicastery’s regular practice of posting art by Father Marko Rupnik — a Rome-based priest accused of sexually abusing multiple women — on the Vatican News website and social media, especially to illustrate church feast days.
Bishop Reed: Catholic communications is ‘journeying alongside people in faith’ June 20, 2024By Gina Christian OSV News Filed Under: Journalism, News, World News Catholic communications is more than “delivering a message,” but rather “journeying alongside people in faith,” said the chair of the U.S. Catholic bishops’ communications committee.
Religious freedom among values threatened by world media, experts say at conference May 9, 2024By Paulina Guzik OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News – The need for quality journalism and media ethics is increasingly high, experts underlined at the academic conference “Media for Man” organized by Pontifical University of John Paul II in Krakow, Poland. “At this point, it is a matter of people’s security,” the organizers said.
Little Sisters of the Poor honored with “Fishers of Men” award May 7, 2024By George P. Matysek Jr. Catholic Review Filed Under: Consecrated Life, Feature, Journalism, Local News, News “They revere the sacredness of human life,” Archbishop Lori told more than 200 people who gathered April 27 at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., for Guadalupe Radio Network’s benefit dinner that honored the Little Sisters of the Poor with its “Fishers of Men” award.
Pope asks broadcasters to share the truth, not spread ideology March 25, 2024By Justin McLellan Catholic News Service Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, Vatican, World News Media outlets have a responsibility to share the truth, not spread ideologies, Pope Francis said.
Church Militant to shut down as defamation saga ignited by a radical traditionalist sect concludes March 5, 2024By Damien Fisher OSV News Filed Under: Feature, Journalism, News, World News Trapped in a vortex of scandal, the Ferndale, Mich.-based Church Militant is shutting down, the concluding chapter for the online news outlet thanks to a legal drama set in motion by a fringe traditionalist group and its canon lawyer, who is accused of defaming a New Hampshire priest on the opposite side of a canonical dispute.
