THE BISHOP TRUTH NICHOLAS DIMARZIO’S WILL LUNCHEON HONORING SET YOU FREE TABLET EDITOR ED WILKINSON WEDNESDAY MAY 9, 2018 BROOKLYN, NY PRODUCED FOR THE DIOCESE OF BROOKLYN BY DESALES MEDIA GROUP WCDnyc.org WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY 2018 “THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE” (JN 8:32) TABLE OF FAKE NEWS AND JOURNALISM FOR PEACE 02 Message of His Holiness Pope Francis CONTENTS 04 Welcome to World Communications Day Dear Brothers and Sisters, 06 The Most Reverend Nicholas DiMarzio OMMUNICATION IS PART OF GOD’S PLAN FOR US and an essential way to Bishop of Brooklyn Cexperience fellowship. Made in the image and likeness of our Creator, we Rev. Monsignor Kieran Harrington are able to express and share all that is true, good, and beautiful. We are able to 07 Vicar for Communications for the Diocese of Brooklyn describe our own experiences and the world around us, and thus to create historical memory and the understanding of events. But when we yield to our own pride and 08 Arthur Dignam Chief Executive Officer, DeSales Media Group selfishness, we can also distort the way we use our ability to communicate. This can MESSAGE OF be seen from the earliest times, in the biblical stories of Cain and Abel and the Tower 09 Liz Faublas HIS HOLINESS of Babel (cf. Gen 4:4-16; 11:1-9). The capacity to twist the truth is symptomatic of Master of Ceremonies POPE our condition, both as individuals and communities. On the other hand, when we 10 Fr. Thomas Dailey, O.S.F.S, S.T.D. FRANCIS are faithful to God’s plan, communication becomes an effective expression of our Guest Speaker responsible search for truth and our pursuit of goodness. @Pontifex 11 Ed Wilkinson Editor of The Tablet In today’s fast-changing world of communications and digital systems, we are About The Tablet witnessing the spread of what has come to be known as “fake news.” This calls for 12 reflection, which is why I have decided to return in this World Communications 13 St. Francis de Sales Distinguished Communicator Award Day Message to the issue of truth, which was raised time and time again by my 14 About the Diocese of Brooklyn predecessors, beginning with Pope Paul VI, whose 1972 message took as its theme: “Social Communications at the Service of Truth.” In this way, I would like to 15 Menu contribute to our shared commitment to stemming the spread of fake news and to 16 Acknowledgements and Sponsors rediscovering the dignity of journalism and the personal responsibility of journalists to communicate the truth. To read Pope Francis’ entire message go to: wcdnyc.org WCD2018 2 3 WCD2018 EAR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN CHRIST: Ed’s approach has always been promoting The Tablet as a “sign of unity” by presenting the D Church’s message to a wider community. He has often said his biggest challenge as editor is, Welcome to the Diocese of Brooklyn’s 27th annual World Communications Day Catholic Media “Giving the readers the news without putting your views in it.” Therefore, when he was named Conference. As communicators, our primary obligation is to seek what is true. This experience editor 33 years ago, he made it his mission to highlight the news in ways the local church was should be liberating, but sometimes the search for the truth can be difficult. Pope Francis living out its identity as the People of God. challenges us to inspire a responsible approach to telling the stories of our brothers and sisters. Not merely surrendering to the evil of sensationalism or exploiting gossip for entertainment, It was under Ed’s editorship that the Brooklyn and Queens’ unique identity as the diocese of WELCOME TO but recognizing the purity of truth and declaring it to the world. immigrants became the centerfold. The Tablet reports on the diocese’s diversity weekly. It WCD 2018 covers Mexican faithful carrying torches through the streets and gatherings of Croatian and In his message for this year’s World Communications Day, the Holy Father writes, “We are able Vietnamese Catholics. New faith communities are chronicled in their beginning stages, such to describe our own experiences and the world around us, and thus to create historical memory as the growing African congregation in East New York and Queens Village, alongside the rapidly and the understanding of events. But when we yield to our own pride and selfishness, we can expanding Asian Catholic population. Visiting prelates from homelands far away connect with also distort the way we use our ability to communicate.” newcomers to Brooklyn in the pages of the paper. With each edition, The Tablet helps us see our strength through our diversity. We, in the Diocese of Brooklyn, are blessed that for more than a century, we have had a model of fierce veracity right at our fingertips. For 110 years,The Tablet’s ink has documented the news In an ever-secularizing culture The Tablet has earned its reputation as a faithful witness to the and events of our diocese. Decades after they were printed, these pages now serve as a detailed truth, both for the Church and the world. The newspaper has not ignored reporting on tough week-by-week historical record of our diocese. issues. In the face of the culture of death, The Tablet affirms the primacy of all life. When clergy were accused of sexual misconduct, The Tablet went to print with the news. Through the years, Ed Wilkinson has been a part of that effort for nearly five decades. We can trust that under his it has covered school closings and parish mergers with perspective often omitted from the leadership The Tablet’s news and editorials highlight our past and tell the story of our future. secular media. At your place setting, you will find a card that reproduces one of the Tablet’s front pages. They As you can see, The Tablet remains America’s most influential diocesan newspaper. Today, we serve as a testament to the paper’s unyielding pledge to report the news. Some of these covers honor Ed Wilkinson, for keeping it as such – a true exponent of religious freedom. We raise our include the last century’s most turbulent times—world wars, the assassination of the only glasses for him and to the Catholic press. Catholic president and calls to stop the arms race. Others celebrate Church events and the Your brother in Christ, consecration of new bishops. Some covers report life at its sweetest—local softball games that ended in victory for the good guys, or photographs of loved ones welcoming soldiers home from Vietnam. Bright Christmas campaigns light up covers, but dim in comparison to the faces REVEREND MONSIGNOR KIERAN E. HARRINGTON of children who receive a special gift they may not have imagined. The pages also showcase the Vicar for Communications, Diocese of Brooklyn publicity and support of financial campaigns, further enriching the life of the Church. Chairman & President, DeSales Media Group, Inc. WCD2018 4 5 WCD2018 ORN IN NEWARK, NEW JERSEY, on June 16, 1944, His Excellency, the Most Reverend HE REVEREND MONSIGNOR KIERAN E. HARRINGTON, V.E., is Vicar for BNicholas DiMarzio, attended the Immaculate Conception Seminary in Darlington, New TCommunications for the Diocese of Brooklyn. He is also the founder of DeSales Jersey, was ordained a Roman Catholic Priest in 1970, and named Prelate of Honor by Pope Media Group, a full-service media company. In his role as the company’s president John Paul II in 1986. and chairman, Msgr. Harrington oversees NET TV, a cable television network that can be seen throughout the greater New York area; The Tablet, the Diocese of From 1985 to 1991, he served as executive director of the Office of Migration and Refugee Brooklyn’s weekly newspaper with a circulation of 75,000 and 28,000 website page Services at the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB). Bishop DiMarzio was views per month; and Nuestra Voz, a monthly Spanish language newspaper with ordained Auxiliary Bishop of Newark in 1996, where he served as Vicar for Human Services a circulation of 17,000. He also oversees the company’s technology division which and executive director for their Catholic Charities agency. In 1980, Bishop DiMarzio earned manages more than 125 websites, and the company’s public relations and external a Masters in Social Work from Fordham University, and a Ph.D. in Social Work Research and affairs departments. Policy in 1985 from Rutgers University. In July of 1999, Bishop DiMarzio was appointed as the Sixth Bishop of Camden, New Jersey, Msgr. Harrington hosts In The Arena, a weekly television and radio talk show that airs and served there until October 2003, when he was installed as the Seventh Bishop of Brooklyn. on NET TV and WOR Radio. He interviews guests, and moderates intense debates covering various political and social issues from a Catholic cultural perspective. THE MOST Bishop DiMarzio has spent his ministry of over 40 years in the areas of immigration assistance REVEREND REVEREND and refugee resettlement services. He has served as both an advocate for refugees and MONSIGNOR In 2008, Msgr. Harrington became the Rector of Saint Joseph’s Co-Cathedral in the immigrant concerns in political forums, and as the initiator and administrator of programs to NICHOLAS Prospect Heights neighborhood where he oversaw a complete restoration of the KIERAN E. assist refugees and immigrants within the U.S. and throughout the world. DIMARZIO church and shepherded its elevation to co-cathedral. HARRINGTON PH.D., D.D. Bishop DiMarzio is currently Chairman of the Board of the Center for Migration Studies, and VICAR FOR Msgr.