From January 22nd to 24th, 2025 (starting at 12:45 PM, in the Aula Magna Giovanni Paolo II), the 14th Professional Seminar on Church Communication Offices will take place. The theme of this year's seminar is "Communication and Evangelization: Context, Attitudes, and Experiences."
This biennial initiative, organized by the School of Institutional Communication, is aimed at ecclesiastical communicators from dioceses and other ecclesiastical jurisdictions, episcopal conferences, congregations or institutes of consecrated life, movements, and other entities linked to the Church, as well as communication and media professionals, and journalists covering religious news.
Organized in the Jubilee Year and on the eve of the Jubilee of Communication (January 25th), this edition aims to emphasize the desire and need for evangelization which, in the contemporary world as Saint Paul VI underlined, takes the form of dialogue: "The Church must enter into dialogue with the world in which she lives. The Church becomes word; the Church becomes message; the Church becomes dialogue" (Ecclesiam suam, no. 34). He added that dialogue is "an art of spiritual communication" that requires "clarity, affability, trust, and prudence" (ibid., no. 37)
As Pope Francis stated, "every authentic act of evangelization is always 'new'" (Evangelii Gaudium, 11) because the contexts, protagonists, and interlocutors are diverse. In this spirit, the Professional Seminar offers an opportunity to reflect on the most relevant issues for the contemporary world, taking into account the context in which they develop. It is also a forum for discussion and participation by the faithful in the various areas of communication, on the stylistic questions that facilitate or hinder dialogue on faith, and on experiences that are a source of inspiration for new projects.
The Seminar will take place over three days – January 22nd, 23rd, and 24th, 2025 – and will include keynote speeches, shorter presentations, and numerous debates. In this edition, the structure provides for various thematic paths that facilitate the communication of faith, in-depth study, and the exchange of ideas, such as: the path of witness, the path of reason and science, the path of charity and service, the path of culture and art, the path of healing and forgiveness, the path of relationship, the path of joy and popular piety, etc. Round tables and panels animated by personalities and experts will contribute to creating that common space of dialogue, necessary for personal relationships and mutual exchanges, which is at the basis of institutional communication. Registration is available at the following link.
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