Spence, Msgr. Campion named to Vatican communications council

Published: 2006-11-02

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- Pope Benedict XVI has named Anthony J. Spence, director and editor in chief of Catholic News Service, and Msgr. Owen F. Campion, associate publisher of the Catholic publishing firm Our Sunday Visitor, to five-year terms on the Pontifical Council for Social Communications. Both new appointees have served as president of the Catholic Press Association and editor of the Tennessee Register, diocesan newspaper in Nashville, Tenn. Spence, 53, has headed the Washington-based CNS since February 2004. Before taking that post, he was in charge of more than a dozen publications as executive director of Advancement Communications at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Prior to that he had been director of alumni publications at the university. Msgr. Campion, a priest of the Diocese of Nashville, Tenn., was editor of the Tennessee Register for 17 years until joining Our Sunday Visitor in Huntington, Ind., in 1988 as associate publisher and editor of The Priest magazine. Msgr. Campion was CPA president from 1984 to 1986 and Spence from 1994 to 1996.

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