Marquette and Pontifical Salesian University to Sponsor Seminar for Students and Journalists on Covering the Pope and Catholic Church
Contact: Prof. William Thorn, 414-288-3447, william.thorn@marquette.edu
MILWAUKEE, Wis., May 26, 2015 /Christian Newswire/ -- With Pope Francis coming to the United States this summer, a new two-week seminar to help prepare journalists cover the pope and the Catholic Church has been announced by Marquette University's Journalism Department in Milwaukee, Wis. The program will be run in coordination with the Pontifical Salesian University's School of Communication.
The program will run July 6-20, 2015.
Pope Francis has declared a Holy Year of Mercy for 2015-2016, and he will make his first visit to the United States in September 2015 with stops in New York, Washington, D.C. and Philadelphia. In Washington he will make an unprecedented address to Congress. He will also speak to the U.N. in New York, and will attend the World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia.
This conference is designed to prepare working journalists for the pope's visit with material on American Catholics and on the Vatican.
The two week program will have its first week at Marquette University and will cover "The Catholic Church in America."
The second week will be held at the Pontifical Salesian University in Rome, and will be entitled "The New Vatican Reality."
The seminar is designed to provide working journalists and others with a substantive background on the characteristics, operational structure of the Catholic Church in the era of Pope Francis along with the leadership dimensions of Pope Francis and the underlying dynamics of the Catholic Church.
The Marquette session will focus on the Catholic Church in America including the September 2015 visit of Pope Francis.
The Rome session at the Salesian University will focus on the Vatican including the recent reforms along with site visits to the Vatican's media operations, including its Press Office, Libreria Editrice Vaticana, l'Osservatore Romano, and Vatican Radio. Site visits will include a papal audience and tours of Vatican library, Secret Archives, the Sistine Chapel and the Sunday Angelus.
Participants will qualify for 2 semester credits.
Applicants accepted into the seminar must pay their own travel expenses to Milwaukee and a special group rate for the flight to Rome.
The cost is $2.640.00 includes room, breakfast, and lunches, in Milwaukee and Rome, dinners in Rome and books.
CONTACT: william.thorn@marquette.edu
Online application:
For Professionals:
studyabroad.marquette.edu/?go=ProfessionalReporting
For Students:
studyabroad.marquette.edu/?go=CatholicChurch
