Good
News for Everyone!
Catholic Communication
Campaign collection May 14-15
”This has been a year of many
debuts made possible by the hard work of the staff of the Catholic
Communication Campaign (CCC) and our diocesan communicators with the support of
our diocesan bishops and parish priests and the generosity of the people in the
pews,” according to Msgr. Francis J. Maniscalco, Director of the U. S. Bishops
Department of Communications, which oversees the CCC.
This year, the Catholic
Communication Collection will be taken up in parishes in the Diocese of New Ulm
the weekend of May 14-15. Half the collection remains in the diocese for its
own communications efforts while half supports the activities of the national
CCC Office.
The Catholic Communication
Campaign is an activity of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops.
For more than twenty-five years, this annual collection has supported a variety
of Catholic programming both nationally and locally.
Locally, the Catholic
Communication Campaign supports diocesan produced radio, television, and print
projects that convey positive messages and bring an awareness of God’s presence
to the public. The annual campaign also assists in supporting television Mass
Leaflets for those unable to attend Mass; the diocesan Web site, www.dnu.org;
The Prairie Catholic, the official newspaper of the Diocese of New Ulm; as well
as the diocesan Media Resource Center which provides electronic and print
material to assist parishes and schools in areas such as religious education,
adult enrichment and leadership development programs. For
further information contact the diocesan Office of Communications, (507)
359-2966; dnu@dnu.org.
Nationally, video programming
has proved to be a cost effective means of engaging people of all ages,
including programming appearing on the affiliates of national networks which
includes:
“Faith Works: Across the
“Come to the Water: The Adult Journey to
Baptism” aired on ABC-TV stations this spring. This program presented the
spiritual journey of adults from various backgrounds seeking baptism.
“Personally Speaking” with
Msgr. Jim Lisante, a one-hour talk show with guests Tim Russert, Margaret Colin, and Aaron Neville aired
on NBC-TV affiliates in June 2004 as
part of the “Horizons of the Spirit” series.
For the latest information
about the Catholic Communication Campaign visit its new Web site at www.catholiccommunication
campaign.org/news. Visitors to this site will find information on program
scheduling, the collection date for their diocese, the CCC’s quarterly bulletin
insert, View in the Pew, as well as reviews of current films and videos, Mass
times, streaming video of featured programming or coverage of important news
conferences or meetings of the bishops’ conference.
“Our lives are saturated with
media messages. It sometimes seems that the world is full of only bad news,”
Msgr. Maniscalco said. “The Catholic
Communication Campaign is How the Good News Gets Around.”
The rosary prayed by Bishop John C. Nienstedt is available on
audio tape
for a $2.00 donation plus $2.00 postage/handling per
audio tape if mailing is requested. To order contact the diocesan Office of
Communications, (507) 233-5330, jweicherding@dnu.org