Use stories, photos, Web to evangelize, priest tells Catholic press

Published: 2004-06-02

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Members of the Catholic press must use every skill they have in the service of the Gospel, which "has the power to rock the world," a Washington priest told attendees at the 94th annual Catholic Press Association convention. "Everything we do as reporters, writers, photographers, editors, Web designers ... is at the service of evangelization," said Msgr. Raymond East, executive director of the Office of Black Catholics for the Archdiocese of Washington. He made the comments May 28 at a breakfast on the final day of the three-day convention in Washington. "If we're baptized, we're evangelizers. We're called to be evangelizers, to bring the good news of Jesus Christ into every strata of human society, to transform humanity and make it new," the priest said. "Our Catholic press exists to evangelize."

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