2012-04-19 10:20:03

Church Communications Seminar concludes in Rome


A major conference on Church Communications concluded here in Rome yesterday. The 8th Professional Seminar for Church Communications Offices featured experts and professional communicators from around the world, speaking about how the Church can better convey the Gospel message in the modern world.

One of the speakers at the conference was Jack Valero, who spearheaded an effort to train young people to speak to the secular media during Pope’s visit to the UK in 2010. He spoke about how faithful Catholics can share the faith in a secular world.

“We see our role very much as training people to be in the secular where they may have been fearful in the past,” he said. “We always say, as a Catholic you love the Faith, you love your Church, you don’t need to defend anything, you just explain your story, tell your story, tell it so well that people say in the end ‘I want that’.”

While there is a place for official communications, Valero said, there is also a need to communicate with the secular media. “But we feel that our particular mission and charism is to train people to be there in the secular media, doing those short bursts of information, and doing them very accurately and positively, to get through to many people and to change the way people view the Church out there in the world.”

Listen to the full interview of Jack Valero with Christopher Wells: RealAudioMP3








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