Rome university offers seminar for journalists covering church

Published: 2008-05-15

ROME (CNS) -- A Rome pontifical university is offering journalists a weeklong seminar on covering the Catholic Church. The Sept. 8-14 seminar, "The Church Up Close: Covering Catholicism in the Age of Benedict XVI," will feature encounters with Vatican officials, on-site visits and discussions with veteran Vatican reporters. Offered by the School of Church Communications at the Opus Dei-run Pontifical University of the Holy Cross in Rome, the seminar is designed to give insight into the pope's thinking in the wake of his visit to the United States. "Covering an institution as old and as large as the Catholic Church has always been a huge challenge, and in today's shrinking world it's becoming ever more necessary to tell even local stories about the church from a global perspective," said Father John Wauck, one of the organizers. "The seminar should help reporters do that. What's more, Rome is an ideal setting for reflecting on religion and the media with journalists from around the world," he said.

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