3318 Word and Life - Wins Three Awards for 2013 (FIN)
austraLasia #3318
Word and Life - Wins Three Awards
for 2013 (FIN)
MAKATI CITY
(PHILIPPINES) 15 November, 2013- The 35th Catholic
Mass Media Awards (CMMA) was held today at the GSIS Theater
with Cardinal Chito Tagle, DD giving the inspiring Welcoming
Remarks. The Archdiocese of Manila, through His Eminence, the
late Archbishop Jaime L. Cardinal Sin, organized the Catholic
Mass Media Awards (CMMA) in 1978, in observance of the
International Social Communication Day, which was established
by the Universal Church to stress the importance of mass media
and to instil a sense of responsibility in communicators.
Since 1978, the CMMA was held every year onwards, in the four
media fields of Print, Television, Radio, Film and
Advertising.
In 1992, the CMMA focused on rewarding media products that
exemplify both technical excellence and the transmittal of
human values. Through this, the CMMA aimed to better tap the
immense potential of mass media for spreading genuine
Christian values. Since the Awards deal with mass media as a
means for total human development, CMMA has always stressed
that the winning production need not be Christian and the
awardees need not be Catholic.
As there is a revolution in communication with the coming of
the Internet and mobile phones, CMMA also included the
Internet in its 2001 categories.
This year the Salesians of Don Bosco, through the Word and
Life Publications, had won all its three official entries. Fr.
Salvatore Putzu, SDB, the Editor In Chief of Word & Life
Publications, personally received the trophies for Word &
Life Magazine as the Best Youth Magazine (for the second time)
and for the Comics "Pedro Calungsod: The Young Catechist and
Martyr" as the Best Comic Story.
Fr. Bernard Nolasco, SDB also personally received the award
for his column in Word & Life Magazine "Between The Lines"
as the Best Entertainment Column. Fr. Drans, as he is fondly
called, is presently the FIN Delegate for Social
Communications. This is the 4th time he has won praise for the
column "Between the Lines." It is about pop/rock music
and the wonderful way he relates them to spiritual values.
