My colleague, George Martell, took this photo of me and Cardinal Seán after an adoration and prayer service with him and other Pastoral Center employees to pray with and for him as heads to Rome for the conclave. I asked Anthony who he saw in the picture. “Daddy,” he said. “And who else?” “Jesus!” Job [...]
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Stephen Colbert on the Pope’s new hat and CatholicTV
Stephen Colbert, host of the Comedy Central show “Colbert Nation,” is famously Catholic and he gives a somewhat irreverent, but very funny segment on Pope Benedict’s new choice of headgear and then 3 minutes on Boston’s own CatholicTV and its efforts to in 3D technology. The Colbert Report Mon – Thurs 11:30pm / 10:30c www.colbertnation.com [...]
Catholic New Media Celebration MMX
Today, I’m working at the Archdiocesan Pastoral Center on something I’ve been looking forward to for months and months. We are very privileged to be hosting the Star Quest Production Network (SQPN.com) and their Catholic New Media Celebration. This is a great time, not just for the content of the talks on new media and [...]
Hitting the ground running in my new job
Today was my first official day working in my new job in the New Media & Initiatives office of the Catholic Media Group of the Archdiocese of Boston. I’d mentioned a month ago that I would be leaving my job as manager of gift processing & donor relations at the Catholic Foundation of the archdiocese [...]
Announcing my new job in Catholic New Media
I have a really big announcement today. As of July 1 I will be leaving my position as Manager of Gift Processing and Donor Relations for the Catholic Foundation of the Archdiocese of Boston to join the brand-new Office for New Media and Initiatives of the brand-new Catholic Media Secretariat of the Archdiocese of Boston. [...]
Our EyeFi/Mifi test: How did it go?
Last week,I wrote about an experiment in new media we were working on at the Archdicoese of Boston. My colleague, George Martell, a photojournalist, traveled to Washington, DC, with a group of Boston pilgrims for the 37th March for Life. He took along his usual panoply of gear, plus two new bits: an Eye-fi card [...]
Archdiocese of Boston breaks new ground in new media
Over the next few days, if you go to www.facebook.com/BostonCatholic or www.flickr.com/BostonCatholic or www.twitter.com/BostonCatholic, you can follow along in real-time with the pilgrimage from the Archdiocese of Boston of the Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults (ONE) to the March for Life in Washington, DC. The pilgrims left by bus this [...]
Lest there be any doubt…
Cardinal O’Malley has given a direct and unambiguous statement regarding the controversy over Caritas Christi on his blog this past Friday: To be perfectly clear, Caritas Christi will never do anything to promote abortions, to direct any patients to providers of abortion or in any way to participate in actions that are contrary to Catholic [...]
Good news from work officially announced
I don’t blog about my job much for obvious reasons. (At least I think they’re obvious.) But I think it’s worthwhile for me to point out the news that came out today from the office I work in: the archdiocese’s annual Catholic Appeal surpassed it’s fundraising goal of $15 million in 2008. This is very [...]
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