” “"Covering the Church in the Age of Benedict XVI" is the title of the professional workshop for journalists of the international press that will begin on Monday 8th September at the Faculty of Institutional Social Communication of Pontificia Università della Santa Croce. The workshop, which will be held in English, will consists of several class lessons, visits to places in the Vatican and meetings with delegates of the Holy See. The purpose of this workshop is to explore the Pope’s thought as well as the nature, mission, organisation and liturgy of the Catholic Church; how its diplomacy is organised; challenges welfare, bioethics, science; relations with Islam, Hebraism and the other Christian Churches. (http://www.church-communication.net/). The 50 journalists attending the workshop will come from the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Brazil, Portugal, Hungary, Ireland, Austria, Germany, Romania, Slovakia, Serbia, South Africa, Kenya, India, the Philippines and Australia. Speakers will include: card. Francis Stafford, Maurice Borrmans (Papal Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies), Brian Ferme (Canon Law School S. Pio X, Venice), David Maria Jaeger (Papal University at Antonianum) and Francis Campbell (British Embassy to the Holy See).” “
