Church communications seminar held in Rome

The 8th Professional Seminar on Church Communication Offices, is being held this week at Rome’s Pontifical University of Santa Croce. The conference brings together leading experts in the field of Church communications, in order to compare their experience with that of professionals in Church communications from around the world.

The President of the Catholic Radio Association, Stephan Gajdosik, spoke about how Catholic institutions can work together: “The question is, ‘What can Catholic radio, or what does Catholic radio expect from the communications office?’ And that expectation really is the ability to work together—for Catholic radio and the institutional elements of the Church to be the Body that St. Paul speaks about, that our Lord prayed for at the Last Supper.”

He spoke about his message for the conference: “The hope today was to address that, so that Catholic radio stations and Catholic communications office can work together for the good of the Church and the accomplishment of her mission.”

The Church, he said, has to be able, in some way, to imitate the secular media: “The Church has to be able to imitate that in some degree, that all of her elements, whether lay or institutional, religious, etc., work together and that the message is, well, the message, really, as Benedict and John Paul have said, message is Christ, and so we need to maintain that unity, the purity of that message.”

Listen to the full interview of Stephan Gajdosik with Christopher Wells: