Tackling the Crisis

How is the Catholic press coping with the pressures of modern technology and rapidly changing readership habits that are provoking the most profound cultural changes since the printing press was introduced to the Western world over five centuries ago?
One of the key note speakers at the Catholic Press Congress is Greg Erlandson, president of Our Sunday Visitor publishing company in the US and co-author of a book on Pope Benedict and the sexual abuse crisis. He told Philippa Hitchen how he believes the Catholic press can effectively respond to the current crisis…

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"Catholics are drawing most of their information about the Church in the world from secular media so if they're not in contact with Catholic media, they're not really getting the Catholic message and the more irrelevant, or the later, the thinner, the weaker we appear, the less people will come to us...."