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QUOTES
"I'm very interested in the new evangelization; in using new means to evangelize. We've had a radio station in our archdiocese for three years, broadcasting 12 to 15 hours a day, including the Mass. This project has been greatly enhanced by NEA. From NEA we've received a lot of information and ideas for the new evangelization."
Most Reverend Bernardo Hombach Lutkermeier
Bishop, Diocese of Juigalpa, Nicaragua
"NEA is very important. We need to share our experiences within the Church. We need to globalize the means of communication. The NEA meetings reunite the most important producers and communicators of the Catholic Church - not just in the domain of technology, but especially in the criteria of content because the world now is secularized and at the same time it is looking for spirituality.
Yes, NEA has made a difference for me. It is very encouraging that the influence of the Church will be stronger in the coming years through the use of mass media."
Msgr. Abelardo Alvarado Alcantara
Secretary General, Mexican Episcopal Conference,
Tepeyac Insurgentes, Mexico
"NEA functions as an organization to help implement the Holy Father's plan for the Church in America as proscribed in his Apostolic Exhortation, Ecclesia in America. These media initiatives are an excellent example of His Holiness' expressed desire to use media in the work of evangelization. Our goal is not to have meetings, but to have concrete results. NEA is a facilitator in bringing about concrete results."
Alan Napleton
Former Managing Director, NEA
"...It's important to be here. You have a lot of initiatives here. It's important to know what's going on at the grassroots level, important to help coordinate and promote cooperation and to help deepen people's commitment to evangelization through media."
His Eminence John Cardinal Foley
President, Pontifical Council for Social Communications
"The benefits of the NEA conference are three-fold:
(1) we get to know each other,
(2) we share ideas and insights, and
(3) we confirm everything being done on the continent in mass communications; radio, television and distinct programs that focus on the area of social communications.
It is also important to recognize the huge numbers of hispanics in the U.S. and Canada. These people have their own mentality, culture, language and idiocyncracies. We must transmit the Gospel to them in a form they understand, that fits their mentality and culture."
His Eminence Nicolás de Jesús Cardinal López Rodríguez
Archbishop of Santo Domingo, Primate of America
President of TELEVIDA, Former Chairman of NEA
"NEA has made an impact on my diocese. We have a lot to learn from you. Right now, our station is Catholic because it has Catholic owners (the archdiocese) and Catholic instruction in its programming. The other programs are good and moral, but not Catholic. I want to have more Catholic programming on the air, but I need to prepare people so that they are able to give good presentations and excellent productions."
Most Reverend Vitorio Pavanello, SDB
Archbishop, Archdiocese of Campo Grande, Brazil
"NEA is impacting the Church already by drawing together bishops and prominent lay persons from the entire two continents. We've had a series of four meetings. Now we have a chance to develop and share experiences with entire countries. That alone is a magnificent achievement and called for in Ecclesia in America. It has gone beyond the "now" by focusing on mass media.
This is the first time in the history of Catholic communications that all forms of mass media have been under roof and we're already seeing great interest among them in collaborating and initiating various new forms of media covering the entire two continents. NEA is basically designed to be a catalyst, a facilitator in listening to all these voices and connecting needs with resources that already exist."
Most Reverend Charles V. Grahmann
President of NEA
"(The NEA conference) is great for anybody that’s involved in any area of Catholic communications. These people MUST attend (the conference) at least once in their life, if not every year. It is good to know that you yourself are not the only one out there doing this ministry, that you are not alone. It was so heartwarming to see (first-hand) the support of all the Church hierarchy. I believe that as a result of the attending Bishops’ support of the NEA conference, other Bishops in the Church will follow their lead, and also support our efforts to evangelize through mass media. It was a very affirming meeting, a shot in the arm for those of us who are striving to meet the (spiritual) needs of people through this particular type of ministry."
Mrs. RosaMaria Gendron
Asst. General Manager, KNXT Channel 49, Fresno, California
"Together we can do so much. Jesus prayed that we would be one as He and the Father are one. The whole is greater than the parts. We belong to a beautiful Church, and we must keep our eyes on the whole. This is an Apostolic effort - seek first the Kingdom of God."
Fr. Eduardo Dougherty
President, Associacao Do Senhor Jesus Campinas, Brazil
"The NEA Conference has been a great opportunity to make great contacts," says Fr. Pedro Briseño, a Mexican-born priest who is the Vicar for communications of the diocese of Brownsville, in Texas. "I made great connections with people working in Catholic Radio and TV, and also had the opportunity to see old friends," he adds. During his years at the Department of Communications at the Latin American Bishops' Council (CELAM), Fr. Briseño became an expert at building bridges among different Catholic experiences in communication. "My hope is that NEA will stay as an open forum without becoming a formal organization, like the many that have failed over time - May God bless NEA!"
Fr. Pedro Briseño
Vicar for Communications, Diocese of Brownsville, Texas
"NEA was a great opportunity to get in touch with today's challenges for the New Evangelization from the perspective of communications and new technologies," says Bishop Eguren. "Although Peru and Canada are different in many ways, the increasing process of globalization is bringing similar challenges to all.
NEA was a great occasion to bring together, in the spirit of Ecclesia in America, all the elements needed to foster a greater communication between Catholics from North and Latin America. There was prayer, there was lively exchange of opinions, and there were moments for personal conversations, moments of great joy..."
Bishop José Antonio Eguren
Auxiliary Bishop of Lima, Perú
"I believe NEA is a useful instrument to strengthen communion between North, South, and Central America. We are all convinced that the evangelization needs the media. But when we get together as we did in Dallas, our horizons and expectations expand. In this process, the numerous U.S. Hispanics present at NEA played a key role as middlemen. In fact, many of them became informal translators, "connectors" between Latin Americans and North Americans, demonstrating the key role that Hispanic Catholics are meant to play in the future of the Church in North America..."
Bishop Alvaro Ramazini
San Marcos, Guatemala
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