Originally published at The Crux
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Sometimes, when the pope says something, it becomes news for people far beyond the Catholic world.
The problem is that most people working in the news industry aren’t particularly religious, so they don’t always know how to talk about it.
These are magic moments for those of us in the Catholic news business, because they’re the times we’re invited to explain these stories to an audience we don’t usually reach: People who don’t follow Catholic news. In many cases, they’re also exactly the audience we’d like to have more of—Catholics who don’t regularly watch, read, or engage with Catholic media.
Crux Now‘s Managing Editor, Christopher Altieri, hates “ink-on-ink” journalism, but our publisher, Deirdre Brennan, says that these days, with so much skepticism and negativity toward the press, people want to know how the news is made. So here we go.
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, getting a call to be the “Catholic person” on these stories meant – for me, anyway – hopping in a cab and going down to the local BBC Radio station, which had a room set aside for TV interviews for other news organizations.
Now it means doing things
