Catholic Press Association

Will Convene in Brooklyn

The annual national convention of the Catholic Press Association and the Catholic Academy for Communications Arts Professionals will meet this year for the first time in Brooklyn. The convention will be held at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in Downtown Brooklyn, May 23-25.

Bishop Nicholas DiMarzio will welcome delegates to Brooklyn when he celebrates the opening Mass at St. James Cathedral-Basilica on Wednesday, May 25. On the following evening, the convention’s participants will travel into Manhattan where Cardinal Edward Egan will celebrate a liturgy at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Archbishop John Foley, the president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council on Communications will celebrate the Catholic Press Association’s and the Catholic Academy’s annual memorial Mass on Friday, May 25, at St. James Cathedral. Tablet staffers who died this year and will be remembered at that liturgy include Robert T. Adams, Loretta Beatty, Carolyn D’Antonio and Roger Payne.

The theme of this year’s convention will be “Together We Spread the Word.” The Catholic Media Convention brings together Catholic communicators in print and audiovisual media who are members of the Catholic Press Association and the Catholic Academy for Communication Arts Professionals. Members of the Planning Committee are from both those organizations, including publications / communications efforts from the New York area, such as The Tablet, Catholic New York, the Long Island Catholic, the Pontifical Mission Societies, the Catholic Near East Welfare Association and Maryknoll.

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