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Dr. Ximena DeBroeck is an assistant professor of sacred Scripture at St. Mary’s Seminary and University in Baltimore and senior fellow at St. Paul Center for Biblical Theology. Previously, she was director of the Office of Worship and Sacramental Formation for the Archdiocese of Baltimore. Dr. DeBroeck has created online courses for the University of Notre Dame Institute for Church Life and for the University of Dayton Institute for Pastoral Initiatives, and she has also taught at St. Vincent Seminary and Seton Hill University. Her publications include the study guide for Sherry Weddell’s book Forming Intentional Disciples as well as several journal articles. She earned her theology MA, with a concentration on Scripture, from Saint Vincent Seminary and her doctorate from Duquesne University.

Father Dave Pivonka, TOR, is a well known and popular speaker. He is the author of several books, including Hiking the Camino: 500 Miles with Jesus, and Breath of God: Living a Life Led by the Holy Spirit. He also produced The Wild Goose, a video series on the Holy Spirit. Father Dave is presently the director of Franciscan Pathways, an evangelistic and preaching outreach of the TORs.

Presenter: Fr. Tom Rosica
Time: Friday, June 23 at 2:00 pm
Location: Room 4512

Field Hospital Workers Needed:
How to Foster Dialogue in Catholic Communications Today

This session provides clarity on using blogs, websites and programming to transmit the Good News of the Lord and to foster authentic dialogue.

One of Pope Francis’ favorite images which has certainly been seized by the media is the “field hospital.” When Francis speaks of the church as a “field hospital after a battle” he appeals to Ignatius of Loyola’s understanding of the role of the church in light of God’s gaze upon the world. Field hospitals by their very nature indicate a battleground, a struggle, suffering, confusion, emergency and they foster dialogue and encounter, conversation and meeting, consolation, compassion and the binding of wounds.

But the big battlefield before humanity is also the digital world: one that requires no passport and travel ticket to enter. We have all recognized the seriousness of the spread of hate speech on the internet and how it can be used as a way to catalyze and channel hatred towards ever-changing new, harmful targets against peace in society, the world and the Church. In this aggressive environment, we must find ways to foster listening and benevolence in interpreting what others have to say.
Ordained a priest in the Congregation of St. Basil in 1986, Fr. Thomas Rosica, a native of Rochester, New York, holds advanced degrees in Theology and Sacred Scripture from Regis College in the University of Toronto, the Pontifical Biblical Institute in Rome and the Ecole Biblique et Archéologique Française de Jerusalem. Fr. Rosica has lectured in Sacred Scripture at Canadian Universities in Toronto, Windsor and London and served as Executive Director of the Newman Centre Catholic Chaplaincy at the University of Toronto from 1994-2000.

In June 1999, he was appointed by the Canadian Conference of Catholic Bishops as the Chief Executive Officer and National Director of the World Youth Day and the Papal Visit of Pope John Paul II, that took place in Toronto during July, 2002. On July 1, 2003, Fr. Rosica became the founding Chief Executive Officer of Salt and Light Catholic Media Foundation, Canada’s first national Catholic Television Network. He also served as President of Assumption University in Windsor, Ontario from 2011-2015.

Appointed by Pope Benedict XVI to the Pontifical Council for Social Communications in 2009, Fr. Rosica also served as Media Attaché at four Synods of Bishops at the Vatican in 2008, 2012, 2014 and 2015. In addition to his leadership of Salt and Light Television in Canada, he served as English language attaché to Holy See Press Office from 2013-2016 and continues to relate on a daily basis to several hundred English language journalists and television and radio personnel around the world.

Rev. Thomas Rosica, CSB
Chief Executive Officer
Salt and Light
Catholic Media Foundation

Presenters: Kevin Shanley and Heidi Thompson
Time: Friday, June 23 at 2:00
Location: Room 3105

How to Build New Relationships using Digital Marketing:
New readers and new dollars from you web site, social media platform, and email newsletters

Generate new readers and new dollars from your web site, social media platform, and email newsletters. Learn about marketing, increasing web traffic and ways to leverage social media for improved revenue and reader engagement.

Kevin Shanley is the principal of Shanley and Associates, the leading marketing agency exclusively serving religious publishers. Kevin has worked with over 40 members of the Associated Church Press, Evangelical Press Association, and Catholic Press Association. Shanley and Associates also has a strategic partnership with Cambey and West, one of today’s leading fulfillment agencies also serving religious magazine and newspaper publishers.

Shanley and Associates brings 38 years of marketing experience to the table.

Their services include: fundraising, periodical audience development, fulfillment, digital marketing, and advertising sales. Kevin started his career as the marketing director for Claretian Publications in 1979.

Heidi Thompson is an organizer, marketer and publishing executive with more than 25 years of experience working with faith, community and social justice groups to leverage the science of marketing for the liberation of all God’s creation. She was the publisher and CEO of Religion News Service and served as the vice president for marketing and publisher of Sojourners magazine. She is currently providing marketing consulting services to more than a dozen Christian publications in coordination with Shanley + Associates, a Chicago-based marketing agency serving religious publishers.

Heidi has a B.S. in Journalism from the E.W. Scripps School at Ohio University and an M.S. in Integrated Marketing Communication from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.