The annual lecture will focus on “The Church and Social Communications”
Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary will present its annual John Cardinal Foley Lecture featuring Montse Alvarado, president and chief operating officer of EWTN News. She will speak about “The Church and Social Communications.”
Monday, February 3, 2025
7:00 p.m.
Gwynedd Mercy University (Julia Ball Auditorium)
1325 Sumneytown Pike
Gwynedd Valley, PA 19437
Bishop Keith J. Chylinski, Rector of Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary, will be present for the lecture. He will be joined by Reverend Thomas F. Dailey, the John Cardinal Foley Chair of Homiletics and Social Communications, plus seminarians, faculty, staff, and community members.
The lecture is open to the public and is free of charge.
The John Cardinal Foley Lecture is sponsored by the Cardinal Foley Chair for Homiletics & Social Communications at Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary.
Background Regarding Montse Alvarado
Montse Alvarado is president and chief operating officer of EWTN News, Inc. In her role as president of the news division, Alvarado oversees EWTN’s global news media platforms, which create content in English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Arabic, and Italian. Its holdings include Catholic News Agency, the National Catholic Register, the ACI Group, ChurchPop, and a lineup of television and radio news programming.
Alvarado serves as the founding anchor of the news program “EWTN News in Depth,” a weekly one-hour discussion of current events in the Church, politics, and culture, from a Catholic perspective.
Recognized for her leadership as a Latina Catholic by the Chicago-based ministry, Iskali, Alvarado has been a strategic partner to apostolates facing the challenges of secularization and the shifting demographics of the global Church.
Born in Mexico City, Alvarado serves the Church in various roles with leading apostolates dedicated to the new evangelization, from the defense of free speech to the role of women and the treatment of marginalized communities in society. Alvarado is on the advisory council to the Council of Major Superiors of Women Religious (CMSWR), the GIVEN Institute, and the Catholic Information Center, among others. She holds a master’s degree from George Washington University and a Bachelor of Arts from Florida International University in Political Management and Political Science, respectively.
About Saint Charles Seminary
Founded in 1832, Saint Charles Borromeo Seminary has been forming men for priestly service in the Catholic Church for 193 years. This year’s current enrollment is 140 seminarians, 71 of whom study for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia. In addition, 14 partner dioceses and religious communities from across the country and around the world send their men to the seminary for formation. Thanks to the prayers and generosity of many people, the seminary has been able to continue its mission of forming future priests in service to the people of God and His Church.
For more information, call 610-667-3394 or visit www.scs.edu.
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