CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- The EWTN News Rome Bureau is now is just minutes from St. Peter\u2019s Square, having launched its new office on Thursday. The occasion sparked reflection on Mother Angelica\u2019s legacy and the media network\u2019s mission to serve the gospel.<\/p>\n\u201cToday with this launch we step out in a new chapter in how we can serve our EWTN family with information from Rome,\u201d Michael Warsaw, president of EWTN Global Catholic Network, told CNA Sept. 29.<\/p>\n
The new office is on the Via Della Conciliazione in the shadow of St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, the dome of which is visible from the building\u2019s rooftop terrace.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou can\u2019t help but be here in Rome and in this place, so close to St. Peter\u2019s Basilica, the tomb of St. Peter, and not be energized by that,\u201d Warsaw said. \u201cFor all of us at EWTN that\u2019s my hope, that this presence in Rome, so close to St. Peter, will energize us for the work of the New Evangelization in the years ahead.\u201d<\/p>\n
Monsignor Dario Edoardo Vigan\u00f2, prefect of the Vatican\u2019s Secretariat for Communications, blessed the new location in the presence of dozens of EWTN staff, supporters, and guests. Several hundred people gathered for a rooftop reception.<\/p>\n
Among the guests were Syriac Patriarch Ignatius Joseph III Younan of Antioch, Cardinal Sean O\u2019Malley of Boston, and Cardinal Raymond Burke, patron of the Knights of Malta. Other guests included Archbishop Georg Ganswein, prefect of the Papal Household; several other cardinals and bishops; U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See Ken Hackett and several other ambassadors to the Holy See; and members of the Vatican press corps.<\/p>\n
The office includes access to professional recording studios on the sixth-floor rooftop, advanced technical infrastructure, and a much improved and spacious workspace.<\/p>\n
Warsaw said the new Rome office \u201creally positions the network in an even better way to be able to bring news and information from the heart of the Church to our audience around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIt gives us a much bigger base of operations to be able to use at the service of the Church,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
About 17 people work full-time in the EWTN News Rome office, as do three part-time employees. The multi-national, multi-lingual staff comes from the United States, Italy, Spain, Peru, and Kazakhstan.<\/p>\n
From the Rome office, the EWTN News Bureau and its related EWTN agencies provide video news services in English, Spanish, and German, and written news services in English, Spanish, and Italian. This effort is complemented by EWTN News\u2019 internet presence. Its social media reached 100 million people the weekend of Mother Teresa\u2019s canonization.<\/p>\n
The office will support staff and media production from various EWTN News sections: the National Catholic Register; CNA Group members Catholic News Agency, ACI Stampa, and ACI Prensa; and ChurchPop.<\/p>\n
The impact of EWTN founder Mother Angelica, who passed away on Easter Sunday 2016, was still felt in Rome.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf she could see this place here in Rome, she would see part of her dream realized,\u201d Alan Holdren, EWTN News Bureau Chief, told Vatican Radio.<\/p>\n
Warsaw agreed.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think Mother would be very, very pleased to see this development in Rome,\u201d he said. \u201cIt was always her hope that the network could be a vehicle for bringing news and information about the Holy Father and the Vatican to our audience around the world.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cardinal Sean O\u2019Malley of Boston also saw the new Rome office as part of Mother Angelica\u2019s legacy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI am convinced that Mother Angelica is now happy in heaven thinking that after all his work, there is now finally this place here in Rome,\u201d Cardinal O\u2019Malley told Vatican Radio. \u201cThe story of Mother Angelica is the story of a miracle. A cloistered nun has managed to do what the bishops and the U.S. Catholic foundations have failed to do.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cEWTN is an important reality in the United States to reach Catholics,\u201d the cardinal continued. \u201cTo have a headquarters here in Rome will help a lot to communicate to our people the message of the Holy Father and what happens here in Rome.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cardinal O\u2019Malley said EWTN faces the challenge of communicating the faith to new generations.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the U.S. we now have a huge Hispanic population, and we are very pleased that EWTN also has programs in Spanish, for our migrants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The beneficiaries of EWTN are truly international. During Mother Teresa\u2019s canonization, her Missionaries of Charity sisters in India were watching the EWTN broadcast from St. Peter\u2019s Square.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat would be enough to motivate our work,\u201d commented Holdren.<\/p>\n
He noted the world\u2019s many crises, including those in the Middle East.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe serve an evangelical voice, we serve the voice of Christ, we serve the Pope\u2019s message,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo reach these places of crisis is a challenge. Through the satellite that Mother Angelica bought many years ago, we were able to reach these countries.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe challenge is to keep this widespread reach, but also reach people in modern Western society. In the face of so many problems and so many challenges, there are many hopes. We want to reach out with this Gospel message to deliver that truth which we believe leads everyone to the salvation that it accompanies.\u201d<\/p>\n
EWTN Global Catholic Network is now in its 36th year. Based in Irondale, Alabama, it is the largest religious media network in the world.<\/p>\n
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