How the Good News Gets Around!

Newspaper and television headlines are challenging the media and entertainment industry on the issues of moral values in daily communications. This issue confronts us every time we watch television, go to the movies, rent a video, listen to the radio, or use the Internet. The Catholic Communication Campaign (CCC), to be held in parishes in the New Ulm diocese the weekend of May 15-16, continues its tradition of supporting Catholic radio and television programming at the national and local level with this year’s national campaign theme, How the Good News Gets Around!. (Visit www.usccb.org/ccc)

The Diocese of New Ulm benefits directly from the Catholic Communication Campaign because 50% of the amount collected remains right here in the diocese to support our own local projects.

Our diocesan CCC collection helps support several projects such as:

- a free Sunday Mass leaflet reaching out to shut-ins who are not able to celebrate Mass in the parish;

- The Prairie Catholic, free to every catholic household in the Diocese of New Ulm;

- New Ulm diocesan web site (www.dnu.org);

- Our Men In Black web site (www.OURMIB.ORG) promoting vocations to the priesthood for the New Ulm diocese;

- Media Resource Center, providing print and electronic materials for parish leadership.

Created by the U.S. Catholic bishops in 1978, the Catholic Communication Campaign has been spreading the Gospel message locally and nationally on radio, television, in print, and now on the Internet.

Donations from Catholic parishioners like you make the work of the Catholic Communication Campaign possible.

Pope John Paul II has chosen "The Media in the Family: a Risk and a Richness" as the theme for World Communications Day 2004 to be celebrated May 16.

The Holy Father offers advice for parents as they educate their children: to teach critical viewing skills, and to regulate the use of media in the home. By supporting the Catholic Communication Campaign, we respond to the challenges and exhortations contained in the Holy Father’s World Communications Day message.