Community Views

Report from Corpus Canada's Media Spokesperson:
Francois Brassard

    My efforts in the past months since the Bragg Creek Gathering have been directed principally to representing Corpus Canada's positions on Church renewal issues on radio, TV and in the religious press. My TV efforts have been dismal. It's a media that I would prefer to avoid because it offers too few formats capable of promoting a clear and complete message. I have had more success with radio. The best results have come from the religious press (Prairie Messenger, Catholic New Times). A number of Corpus Canada members including myself have managed to get well received articles into the Catholic New Times.
How many of you have spotted those tiny, yet crisp and precise box ads put in the Prairie Messenger by Emil Kutarna (at his cost). They have already produced requests for subscriptions to The Journal. I would like to get more such ads in other religious newspapers. That Polack from the Prairies is something else. Atta go, Emil!
My goal at present is to get articles and/or radio interviews in the secular media that confronts their narrow, secular view of the Catholic Church. They bring cynicism and sensationalism to their exclusive view of the Church as the institutional church exemplified by its clerical leadership. Like many Catholics they cannot see beyond the present church box. They do not have a sense of the vibrant, new Church that is emerging, and far less do they understand the social consequences resulting from that emergence. I would like to be a part of changing that vision.