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Communication and evangelization:
context, attitudes and experiences

Rome January 22-23, 2025

Wednesday, January 22

14:00 Welcome

14:45 Rector's Address and introduction to the Seminar
         Gema Bellido, Organizing Committee of the XIV Professional Seminar

15:15 Inaugural conference
         Evangelization in the contemporary context: Guidelines for the communicative activity of the Church
         Mons. Rino Fisichella, Pro-Prefect of the Dicastery for Evangelization [to be confirmed]

16:00 Coffee break [Time to move between classrooms]

16:15 Dialogue and colloquy: Where to start in communicating the Faith today?”

[Three simultaneous colloquia: one in English, one in Italian, and a third in Spanish. In each one, a journalist dialogues with two people from a theological, philosophical or communicative field].
    
17:15 Break [time to move between classrooms]

17:20 Experiences and case studies
    
         Group 1:
         The Hallow experience: A prayer app at the top in the digital marketplace
         Group 2:
         The experience of the Church in Argentina: Economic transparency and the programafe.org
         Group 3:
         Case Study 1 [Discussion only, case to be read beforehand]
         Group 4:
         Case study 2 [Discussion only, case to be read beforehand].

18:00 Communication and experiences [2 presentations of 20 minutes in each room].
         Group 1: Communication and evangelization. Contemporary context
         Panel 2: Communication and evangelization. Contents and attitudes
         Panel 3: Communication and evangelization. Sharing experiences

18:45 End of the day [Meeting reserved for alumni of the Holy Cross Faculty of Communication].

Thursday, January 23

8:45   General Session
         "Faith in Public Debates: What I would expect from Church Communicators"
         [Speaker to be confirmed]

9:45   Break [Moving on]

10:00 The Way of chrity and service. Interview with...

[Three communication directors interview leaders of three relevant faith communication initiatives in the area of charity, with positive results and broad impact].

10:45 Coffee Break

11:30 Roundtables and Colloquium

         Roundtable 1: The way of reason.
         Communicating God in the techno-scientific culture.
         (multilingual).
 
         Roundtable 2: The way of spirituality.
         The trap of not talking about God.
         [Spanish]

12:30 End of the session

15:00 The way of healing. Communicating the Faith in a world of wounds

[Evangelization requires a prior work of healing the wounded. Therefore, three parallel conversations are proposed on the following topics]

         Conversation 1: From abuse cases management to personal healing.
         (multilingual)
         Conversation 2: Accompaniment for reconciliation in post-conflict scenarios.
         [English]
         Conversation 3: The way of the persecuted Church.
         [Italian]

15:45 Break [Displacements]

16:00 Mini-talks Santa Croce

[Six short parallel talks by faculty members of the Faculty of Communication of the Pontifical University of the Holy Cross]
    
         Mini-talk 1: Communication, evangelization and Joy
         Mini-talk 2: Dialogue and Communication of the Faith
         Mini-talk 3: Communication offices, professional relations and evangelization

16:30 Break [Moving on]

16:45 Communications and Experiences [2 20-minute presentations in each classroom]
         Session 1: Communication and Evangelization. Contemporary context
         Group 2: Communication and Evangelization. Contents and attitudes
         Group 3: Communication and Evangelism. Experiences

17:45 The way of beauty: Interview/interview [40 minutes]

[Two parallel interviews with renowned artists on the link between beauty and the communication of faith.]

18:40 End of the day

19:30 Dinner (Palazzo Ferrajoli: Piazza Colonna, 355)

Friday, January 24

8:00  Mass (St. Francis de Sales)

8:45  General Session
        Study 10 aspects of the communication of the Faith with...
        [Speaker to be confirmed]

9:30  Break [Moving]

9:40  The way of witnessing

        Roundtable 1: Communicating holiness and canonization causes
        [multilingual]
        Panel 2: Communicating the Church in Mission.
        [English]

10:30 Coffee break
    
11:10 Parallel sessions.

         The way of ecumenical and Interreligious dialogue.
         [A journalist dialogues with a bishop from a Catholic minority nation]

         The way of events
         [Colloquy with communication managers of the latest papal trips]

         The way of popular piety
         [Roundtable discussion with communication directors of popular faith events in different parts of the world]

11:55 Break [Moving on]

12:00 The way of culture

[Three parallel sessions on experiences relevant to faith communication in culture and entertainment]
        
         Session 1: Exhibitions and faith communication.
         Session 2: Books that become open conversations
         Session 3: Experiences of faityh communication in universities

12:45 End of session

15:00 Masterclasses

[Seminar participants can choose one of the following masterclasses for practical purposes]

         Group 1: Converting a faith story into a quality video
         Group 2: The power of podcasts, and some parameters for making them at their best
         Group 3: Faith and cameras: Media training experiences
         Group 4: Addressing hot topics in public debates: 7 principles

16:30 Break [shift]

16:40 The digital and media way.

[Three best practice workshops, each with three participants]

         Workshop 1: Evangelization and AI
         Workshop 2: The social way
         Workshop 3: Online resources for evangelization

17:40 Group photo
         [Aula Magna San Giovanni Paolo II]

17:45 Final lecture
         "How I passionately sought happiness and found it accidentally"
         [Speaker to be confirmed]
    
18:30 Closing remarks
         Organizing Committee of the 14th Seminar

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