Catholic media play a vital role in bearing truth and witnessing to the Gospel, especially amid the digital age and a crucial moment for the Church, said experts during a panel discussion at the US 2025 Catholic Media Conference. Source: OSV News.
As part of the conference, which this year took place on June 24-27 in Phoenix, US Catholic media professionals participated in a panel discussion on “Catholic Media as Bearers of Truth: Evangelisation, Integrity and the Digital Age.”
Panellists included Gretchen Crowe, editor-in-chief of OSV News; James Rogers, chief communications officer of the US Conference of Catholic Bishops; and Edmundo Reyes, co-founder of the media production and creative agencies Digital Continent and Real+True, along with the ministry formation platform Revive Parishes.
The discussion was moderated by Jeanette De Melo, strategic initiatives director for EWTN News.
Ms De Melo noted at the outset that Pope Leo XIV has already given a “clear chart” on how Catholic communicators can spread the Gospel while maintaining journalistic integrity.
She quoted the Pope’s May 12 address to representatives of the media, in which he urged media professionals to “strive for a different kind of communication” that ultimately fosters peace by eschewing aggressiveness, competition, compromise and consensus at all costs.
Ms Crowe said that mandate for Catholic media to be peacemakers was a recognition “that what we do as communicators, as Catholic communicators, isn’t what any communicator does … it’s a vocation.”
“It means we believe strongly that what we are doing is in service to the Church. And through our work, we are bringing people to Christ,” Ms Crowe said. “And when you do the work of the Church, when you live out this vocation well, you are bearing the fruits of the Holy Spirit. And one of those, of course, is peace. And thanks be to God, because we need peace in our world right now.”
Gratitude is another “recurring theme” in Pope Leo’s pontificate, Mr Reyes said.
He added that the current conversation about the Church is focusing less on the past, and more on possibilities for the future.
Mr Rogers described the present as a true “kairos moment,” using the Greek term for a decisive point in time that allows for essential action.
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Experts: Catholic media witness to truth, Gospel and are at ‘kairos moment’ in Church (By Gina Christian, OSV News)
