With the resignation of Pope Benedict XVI announced on February 11 and effective on February 28, our office at Pilot New Media and the whole Catholic Media Secretariat at the Archdiocese of Boston went into top gear. Part of our mission is to provide formation and evangelization through the use of media and when you [...]
The Case for Catholic Teaching: Women, Sex, and the Church
On May 2 and 3, the Catholic Media Secretariat in collaboration with the the Secretariat for Faith, Formation, and Evangelization; the Secretariat for Parish Life and Leadership; St. John’s Seminary; and the Theological Institute for the New Evangelization are conducting two seminars–one for clergy and one for laity–with some of the contributors to the groundbreaking [...]
Lessons learned from our coverage of World Youth Day
From August 12 through 22, Pilot New Media provided unprecedented coverage of the pilgrimage of 500 pilgrims from the Archdiocese to World Youth Day Madrid through various social media accounts, Flickr.com photo sharing, and the website WYDMadridBoston.com. We used a variety of technologies to provide live, real-time updating from wherever we were, as well as [...]
Going to World Youth Day
Pilot New Media is going to World Youth Day with the official pilgrimage from the Archdiocese of Boston’s Office for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults. Starting tomorrow, August 12, through August 23, we’ll be traveling with the 350+ pilgrims from the archdiocese, chronicling their journey in real-time at WYDMadridBoston.com and on our [...]
Talking New Media on the Radio
Domenico Bettinelli, Creative Director in our office, was on The Good Catholic Life today. TGCL is a radio show that airs weekdays on WQOM 1060AM, Boston’s Catholic radio, and is available as a podcast at the show’s website. Our office is intimately involved in the production of the show, making transcriptions of each show, maintaining [...]
Our latest project: World Youth Day
We’re gearing up for World Youth Day this August with a special initiative in cooperation with theOffice for the New Evangelization of Youth and Young Adults, who are organizing the pilgrimage from Boston. We’ve created a new website for them at www.wydmadridboston.com with a travel-related theme. It will have a ot of cool features, including [...]
Missing the March
We’ve been inundated with snow since just after Christmas, which has slowed us down somewhat. However, we’ve been keeping busy with the new Catholics Come Home Boston initiative that we’re launching. The official launch date is Ash Wednesday, but we rolled out the program in parishes this past Sunday, which was Evangelization Sunday, with a [...]





