Posted June 7, 2018

St. Charles Borromeo Seminary hosted the annual John Cardinal Foley Symposium and Award Dinner in celebration of World Communications Day on Thursday, May 24.

The public forum discussed the theme “Fake News and Journalism for Peace” and the message written by Pope Francis for this global celebration. Panelists included James Caccamo, a theology professor at St. Joseph’s University; Msgr. Dennis Mahon, director of the communications program at Seton Hall University and Joe Owens, editor of The Dialog, newspaper of the Diocese of Wilmington, Del.

A Mass was celebrated in the Immaculate Conception Chapel followed by dinner where the Cardinal Foley Media Award for Excellence in Communications, which recognizes contributions to the world of mass media and social communications, was given posthumously to Tim Russert. Russert was a journalist and lawyer who was the longest serving moderator of NBC’s “Meet the Press” program. His son, Luke Russert, accepted the award. (Photos by Sarah Webb)

 

  • From left, panelists at the public form for the Cardinal John Foley Symposium include Msgr. Dennis Mahon, director at the Institute for Communication and Religion at Seton Hall University, Joe Owens, editor and general manager of The Dialog in the Diocese of Wilmington and James Caccamo, associate professor and chair of Theology and Religious Studies at St. Joseph’s University.

  • Joe Owens editor of The Dialog newspaper, responds to a question during the Cardinal Foley symposium.

  • Msgr. Dennis Mahon of Seton Hall University addresses the topic of fake news.

  • Bishop Timothy Senior celebrates Mass in Immaculate Conception chapel at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary.

  • Luke Russert, son of Tim Russert, prays during Mass that preceded a dinner in which his father, Tim Russert, was posthumously awarded the Cardinal Foley Media Award for Excellence in Communications.

  • Luke Russert accepts the Cardinal Foley Media Award for Excellence in Communications for his father Tim Russert, who passed away in 2008.