Reaching Decision Makers within the Catholic Community
For Immediate Release
2010 Edition of 193-Year-Old Official Catholic Directory™ Delivers New "WOW" Factor!
Top Catholic writers including George Weigel and Chris Lowney deliver nine well-researched articles specifically chosen to be useful for clergy–that won't be found elsewhere!
The Official Catholic Directory, NEW PROVIDENCE, NEW JERSEY – July 8, 2010 – The Official Catholic Directory, the mainstay resource of every Catholic parish and diocese in the U.S. for more than 193 years, radically changed its feature articles in this year's hot-off-the-press 2010 edition. The results are nine fresh, well-researched feature articles that deliver useful and insightful-even inspiring-articles written especially for priests, bishops and religious. Non-clergy will benefit too, but this year particular attention was given to serve the primary users of The Official Catholic Directory.
"We blew out all the stops on this year's articles. It's a first for the directory," said Jeanne Goffred, CEO, The Official Catholic Directory. "We felt it was imperative that this year's articles deliver top tier information of interest to clergy, and we sought out top writers and experts in various fields of expertise to deliver this information.
VATICAN CITY ' If you want to explore every nook and cranny of St. Peter?s Basilica but don?t want to fight the crowds, just click here on the Vatican website. A team of faculty and students from Pennsylvania?s Villanova University spent hours shooting hundreds of photos of the basilica and months digitally stitching them together [...]
Catholics in England will have to pay to attend some events during Pope Benedict XVI's Sept. 16-19 trip to Scotland and England, according to reports in our client paper in London, the Catholic Herald. Catholics will pay 25 pounds ($39) to attend the beatification Mass at Birmingham's Cofton Park Sept. 19, and the 1,000 priests [...]
Chris O'Keefe, the former Salesian volunteer who is thru-hiking the Appalachian Trail to raise money for a Catholic diocese in Southern Sudan, is making his final sprint to the finish ' 422.2 miles in 17 days. O'Keefe began his backpacking journey of nearly 2,200 miles in Georgia in February, hoping to finish in late May. He [...]
The Catholic Worker Movement, often described as a rag-tag effort to live out the Gospel precept of love of neighbor, has returned to Davenport, Iowa. Michael Gayman, decided to purchase a house and offer hospitality after spending more than two years with a Catholic Worker community in California and deciding to return to eastern Iowa [...]
CASTEL GANDOLFO, Italy ' How does the pope spend his vacation? Most people would be right when they guess: reading, writing, playing the piano, walking, and praying. But who knew he also likes to feed the goldfish at one of the artificial pools in the gardens of the papal summer residence? Thanks to footage released [...]
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