Welcome to the new blog for Diocesan Communications in Central Massachusetts. As with any blog of this type, I am hoping that we can offer helpful tips that relate to a wide variety of communications issues to parish staffs, schools, agencies and other resources. Our office helps the diocese with issues involving websites, internal and external communications, publications, as well as physical communications including phones, internet, videos and multimedia production, and cellular technologies. We also operate TV Ministry to keep homebound Catholics and others in touch with the local Catholic Community through the Daily Mass, Family Rosary, and informational programming. We don’t claim to have all the answers, but we have developed a wide array of resources to find answers for you.
Some of you may be visiting as parishioners and are interested in issues facing Catholics today, not operational questions. I will try to address those as well, especially as they relate to diocesan news stories, and to give a forum to share.
Social communication is not limited to entertainment, sales or personal issues. We are a community of faith and social communications serves to strengthen those bonds, as well as reestablish them when they are weakened or have become lost over time. We all know that social communications can often be a place of pain and frustration as well. All we ask is that comments be respectful and contributing to the topic at hand, in order to be consistent with a position of respect for the dignity of everyone as made in God’s image.
I invite you to register to be apprised of new postings or simply visit from time to time to see what postings might be in your area of interest. We will also be working with other departments to inaugurate their blogs, whether in Religious Education, Catholic schools, or social justice to name a few, so check out other areas of our website to learn more over the coming months.
These are exciting times and I look forward to the possibilities which lie ahead.
Peace.