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Communication and evangelization:
context, attitudes and experiences
Rome January 22-23, 2025
Wednesday, January 22
2:00 p.m. Welcome
2:45 p.m. Rector's Address and introduction to the Seminar
Gema Bellido, Organizing Committee of the XIV Professional Seminar
3:15 p.m. Inaugural conference
Evangelization in the contemporary context: Guidelines for the communicative activity of the Church
Mons. Rino Fisichella, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization [to be confirmed]
4:00 p.m. Coffee break [Time to move between classrooms]
4:15 p.m. Dialogue and colloquy: Where to start in communicating the Faith today?”
[Three simultaneous colloquia: one in English, one in Italian, and a third in Spanish. In each one, a journalist dialogues with two people from a theological, philosophical or communicative field].
5:15 p.m. Break [time to move between classrooms]
5:20 p.m. Experiences
Group 1: The experience of Hallow, a prayer app in the top digital marketplace
Zac Crippen, international director of @Hallow
Group 2: The experience of the Church in Argentina: economic transparency and the programafe.org
Rev. Máximo Jurcinovic (Director of the Communications Office of the Episcopal Conference of
Argentina)
6:00 p.m. Communication and experiences [2 presentations of 20 minutes in each room].
Group 1: Communication and evangelization. Contemporary context
Panel 2: Communication and evangelization. Contents and attitudes
Panel 3: Communication and evangelization. Sharing experiences
6:45 p.m. End of the day [Meeting reserved for alumni of the Holy Cross Faculty of Communication].
Thursday, January 23
8:45 a.m. General Session
"Faith in Public Debates: What I would expect from Church Communicators"
[Speaker to be confirmed]
9:45 a.m. Break [Moving on]
10:00 a.m. The Way of chrity and service. Interview with...
[Three communication directors interview leaders of three relevant faith communication initiatives in the area of charity, with positive results and broad impact].
10:45 a.m. Coffee Break
11:30 a.m. Roundtables and Colloquium
Roundtable 1: The way of reason.
Communicating God in the techno-scientific culture.
(multilingual).
Roundtable 2: The way of spirituality.
The trap of not talking about God.
[Spanish]
12:30 p.m. End of the session
3:00 p.m. The way of healing. Communicating faith in a world of wounds
From abuse case management to personal healing
Irma Patricia Espinosa (psychiatrist, Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors)
In conversation with Jaime Cárdenas (Pontifical University of the Holy Cross)
3:45 p.m Break [Displacements]
4:00 p.m Mini-talks Santa Croce
[Six short parallel talks by faculty members of the Faculty of Communication of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross]
Mini-talk 1: Communication, evangelization and Joy
Mini-talk 2: Dialogue and Communication of the Faith
Mini-talk 3: Communication offices, professional relations and evangelization
4:30 p.m. Break [Moving on]
4:45 p.m. Communications and experiences
Group 1: Communication and Evangelization. Contemporary context [2 presentations of 20']
Group 2: Communication and Evangelization. Contents and attitudes [2 presentations of 20']
Group 3: Presentation and screening of the documentary Follow that Bishop! on the Venerable
Fulton Sheen. [Screened in English, 28'].
Introduced by Antonio Olivié (CEO of Rome Reports) and Anneliese Taggart (Vatican Correspondent).
5:45 p. m. The way of Beauty
Artist Timothy Paul Schmalz (https://timothypaulschmalz.com/) and cardinal Michael F. Czerny
(Prefect of the Dicastery for Promoting Integral Human Development) interviewed by Juan della
Torre (Founder and CEO of La Machi Communication for Good Causes).
* In addition to this session, it is possible to take part in a tour with the sculptor to visit several of his
works in Rome and the Vatican, on Friday 24 January, from 1 to 3 pm. To participate in the tour it is
necessary to make a reservation by sending an e-mail indicating in the subject: "I want to take part
in the tour".
6:40 p.m. End of the day
7:30 p.m. Dinner (Palazzo Ferrajoli: Piazza Colonna, 355)
Friday, January 24
8:00 a.m. Mass (St. Francis de Sales)
8:45 a.m. General Session
Study 10 aspects of the communication of the Faith with...
[Speaker to be confirmed]
9:30 a.m. Break [Moving]
9:40 a.m. The way of witnessing
Roundtable 1: Communicating holiness and canonization causes
[multilingual]
Panel 2: Communicating the Church in Mission.
[English]
10:30 a.m. Coffee break
11:10 a.m. Parallel sessions.
The way of ecumenical and Interreligious dialogue.
[A journalist dialogues with a bishop from a Catholic minority nation]
The way of events
[Colloquy with communication managers of the latest papal trips]
The way of popular piety
[Roundtable discussion with communication directors of popular faith events in different parts of the world]
11:55 a.m. Break [Moving on]
12:00 p.m. The way of culture
[Three parallel sessions on experiences relevant to faith communication in culture and entertainment]
Session 1: Exhibitions and faith communication.
Session 2: Books that become open conversations
Session 3: Experiences of faityh communication in universities
12:45 p.m. End of session
3:00 p.m. Masterclasses
[Seminar participants can choose one of the following masterclasses for practical purposes]
Group 1: Converting a faith story into a quality video
Group 2: The power of podcasts, and some parameters for making them at their best
Group 3: Faith and cameras: Media training experiences
Group 4: Addressing hot topics in public debates: 7 principles
4:30 p.m. Break [shift]
4:40 p.m. The digital and media way.
[Three best practice workshops, each with three participants]
Workshop 1: Evangelization and AI
Workshop 2: The social way
Workshop 3: Online resources for evangelization
5:40 p.m. Group photo
[Aula Magna San Giovanni Paolo II]
5:45 p.m. Final lecture
"How I passionately sought happiness and found it accidentally"
[Speaker to be confirmed]
6:30 p.m. Closing remarks
Organizing Committee of the 14th Seminar
Sponsors
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