Archbishop says Catholic television should not compete with networks

Published: 2005-10-26

VATICAN CITY (CNS) -- Catholic television stations and production companies need to find a way to complement and not compete with the religious programming of general television stations, said Archbishop John P. Foley. "We do not want to do harm to those broadcasters who have helped religion in general and the Catholic Church in particular over so many years," said the U.S. archbishop, president of the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. The archbishop spoke Oct. 25 at a meeting to plan the World Congress of Catholic TV, scheduled for next October in Madrid, Spain. While Archbishop Foley's office convoked the congress, he invited representatives of official and private Catholic TV stations and of Signis, the World Catholic Association for Communication and an affiliation of media professionals, to assist in planning the gathering.

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