Colleen Carroll Campbell is a fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, former speechwriter to President George W. Bush and author of The New Faithful: Why Young Adults Are Embracing Christian Orthodoxy

Faith & Culture on EWTN: New shows debut this month

Colleen's weekly television show airs Sundays at 10:30 a.m. Eastern and Wednesdays at 11 p.m. Eastern on EWTN, the world's largest religious media network

This week: Countercultural Families in Cyberspace
Colleen interviews popular author, blogger and mother of eight Danielle Bean about Catholic parents finding support online

Individual episodes are now available for purchase through EWTN's catalogue

Faith & Culture now airs on radio Saturdays at 6 p.m. ET, Sundays at 7 a.m. ET, and Tuesdays at 1 a.m. ET on EWTN global radio and Sirius Satellite Channel 160

 St. Louis Post-Dispatch column

 Colleen's column appears Thursdays in the Post-Dispatch

 This week: A closer look at the pope's environmental message

WHAT'S NEXT

Franciscan University of Steubenville in Steubenville, Ohio

July 25 and 26, 2008: Speeches on faith, culture and politics at university's annual Defending the Faith Conference

C.S. Lewis Summer Institute in Cambridge, England

August 4, 2008: Plenary address on "The New Faithful" at Oxbridge 2008 conference

Heritage Foundation in Washington, D.C.

August 6, 2008: Remarks upon receipt of Distinguished Young Conservative of the Year Award from The Phillips Foundation Ronald Reagan College Leaders Program

WHAT'S NEW

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (July 17)
Media apply God-talk double standard

First Things (July 16)

A man of hope: Essay on Alzheimer's and hope

GetReligion.org (July 11)

Online interview about religion and media

Catholic Press Association Award

Colleen's bimonthly Lay Witness column, “Finding God in All Things,” recently won third place for Best Regular Column in a magazine in the Catholic Press Association’s 2008 Press Awards. In their award commentary, CPA's judges said Colleen “shows near complete mastery of the topics she covers” and writes about controversial topics “without resorting to demagoguery but while still unequivocally stating her views. That is quite an accomplishment.”

Vatican Congress on Women

Colleen recently presented a copy of her book, The New Faithful, to Pope Benedict XVI in Rome, where she was serving as a North American delegate to an international Vatican Congress on women. Sponsored by the Pontifical Council for the Laity, the Congress convened 260 participants from 49 countries to discuss the role of women in the Church and society.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (July 10)
Outrage at Gloucester girls is overwrought and misplaced

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (July 3)
A father's lesson: Joy and dignity amid dementia

The New York Times (April 14 - 20)
Colleen recently joined an online panel of religion experts to provide analysis of Pope Benedict XVI's U.S. visit for The New York Times; read her commentaries here


Take Heart: Catholic Writers on Hope in Our Time
New anthology from Crossroads Publishing features Colleen's essay on Alzheimer's, "Hope in the Ruins"
 

Publisher's description:

"In these 35 meditations, the most beloved Catholic literary figures, scholars, and theologians of our day join members of other faiths to show how we can find hope in our family life, our spiritual practice, our fondest memories, and even our darkest moments."

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