Kim Daniels, '94: Spoke on “From Anger to Renewal: Communications and the Crisis in the Church”
Foley lecturer calls for candor, unity among needed church reforms
“Changes of heart and mind and culture” are needed to move the Catholic Church from anger over the clergy sexual abuse crisis to justice, reform and personal renewal among the faithful.
That was the assessment of Kim Daniels, speaking on “From Anger to Renewal: Communications and the Crisis in the Church” Jan. 28 at St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in Wynnewood.
Daniels, the associate director of Georgetown University’s Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life, shared her thoughts as part of the Cardinal Foley lecture, an annual talk sponsored by the seminary in honor of the late cardinal.
Rebuilding the credibility and trust in the church will also require careful thought as to how reforms are communicated to both Catholics and non-Catholics, said Daniels, who is one of only three lay members of the Vatican Dicastery for Communication.
Throughout the evening, Daniels – who also holds a law degree from the University of Chicago — applied her extensive background in public communications to assessing the church’s current global crisis, one of the most serious in its long history.
Substance drives communications, she said, and not the other way around.
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