Media Coverage of Bishop Malone's Installation

Television, radio, the Internet and social media outlets will provide extensive, live coverage of Bishop Richard J. Malone’s installation as 14th bishop of Buffalo, on Friday, Aug. 10, at 2:30 p.m. For information on the Installation Mass, see our previous post - http://stbenedictsamherstnyblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/bishop-malones-arrival-and-installation.html

            YNN-TV in Buffalo will air the Mass live on Time Warner Cable, with Father Robert Reed, president of Boston Catholic Television (BCTV), providing in-studio commentary.   WGRZ-TV will stream the Mass on their website with commentary from Father Joseph Gatto, pastor of St. Gregory the Great Parish (Williamsville).  WIVB-TV will also stream the Mass on their website.
 
           BCTV and EWTN will broadcast the Mass to a national audience.

            On radio, WLOF-FM and WWKB-AM will air the Mass live in Western New York, while EWTN Radio will air the Mass nationwide.  WBFO-FM and WNED-AM will stream the Mass.  Four Catholic radio stations in Maine and one in Boston, Mass., will also air the Mass.

            “We are extremely pleased with the extensive coverage of Bishop Malone’s installation Mass,” said Kristina Connell, manager of the Office of Communications for the Diocese of Buffalo.”  “With limited seating in St. Joseph Cathedral, these broadcast and social media options will allow people throughout the diocese and across the country to be part of this historic event.”

“This will also be the first time that social media will be used to cover the installation of the bishop of Buffalo, with coverage on diocesan Twitter and Facebook feeds,” Connell said.  “Our social media outlets will provide followers a unique perspective before and during the Mass.”

            Complete broadcast and social media information follows.

Television

YNN-TV (Buffalo)
Full live broadcast on Time Warner Cable.  Father Robert Reed, president of Boston Catholic Television (BCTV), will provide commentary.

WGRZ-TV (Buffalo)
Streaming live on www.wgrz.com and live cut-ins on WGRZ-TV
Father Joseph Gatto, pastor of St. Gregory the Great Parish (Williamsville), will provide commentary on the WGRZ broadcast.

WIVB-TV (Buffalo) – online at www.wivb.com

BCTV (Boston Catholic Television)
Live on-air broadcast
http://www.catholictv.com/home.aspx 

EWTN Global Catholic Television Network
Live on-air broadcast
http://www.ewtn.com/  

Radio

WLOF Radio/101.7 FM (Catholic Radio, Buffalo)
Broadcast from EWTN Radio will air at 9 p.m. on Aug. 10
http://www.wlof.net/index.php 

WBFO 88.7 FM & WNED AM 970 (Buffalo)
Streaming online at http://www.wbfo.org 

WWKB Radio/1520 AM (Buffalo)
Live on-air broadcast

The Presence Radio Network, Maine
WXTP 106.7 FM (North Windham, Maine)
WXBP 90.3 FM (Corinth, Maine)
WWTP 89.5 FM (Augusta, Maine)

WTBP 89.7 FM (Bath, Maine)
The Presence Radio Network will air the installation Mass live at 2:30 p.m. and rebroadcast the installation at 9 p.m.; the installation will be streaming on their website, www.thepresence.fm 

WQOM/1060 AM (Catholic Radio, Boston, Mass.)
Broadcast from EWTN Radio will air at 9 p.m. on Aug. 10
http://www.wqom.org/index.php 

EWTN Radio
The installation will be re-broadcast nationwide on Friday, Aug. 10, at 9 p.m. to all EWTN Radio affiliates
http://www.ewtn.com/radio/ 

Social Media

Twitter

@buffalodiocese
@wnycatholic 
#bishopmalone

Bishop Malone's arrival and installation

A Mass of Installation for Bishop Richard J. Malone will be held at 2:30 p.m. on Friday, Aug. 10, 2012, at St. Joseph Cathedral, 50 Franklin St., in Buffalo, N.Y. 

Since my appointment, I have learned a great deal about the faithful of the diocese, their incredible compassion and generosity to those in need and the countless ministries that make a positive difference in peoples’ lives on a daily basis, Bishop Malone said.  I look forward to joining this effort as we continue to bring the Good News of Jesus Christ to the people of Western New York.

Bishop Malone will be the principal celebrant of the Mass as he becomes the 14th bishop of the Diocese of Buffalo.  He succeeds Bishop Kmiec, who has led the diocese since Oct. 28, 2004.  Pope Benedict XVI accepted Bishop Kmiec’s letter of resignation on May 29, 2012.  Upon his retirement, Bishop Kmiec will become bishop emeritus of Buffalo.
           
Presiding at the installation will be Cardinal Timothy J. Dolan, archbishop of New York and president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, Cardinal Seán P. O'Malley, archbishop of Boston, and Cardinal Edward M. Egan, archbishop emeritus of New York. 
Archbishop Carlo M. Viganò, apostolic nuncio to the United States, will read the letter from the pope, naming Bishop Malone as the new spiritual leader of the Diocese of Buffalo. 
           
More than two dozen bishops from the United States and Canada are scheduled to concelebrate the installation Mass, including Archbishop Henry J. Mansell, archbishop of Hartford and former bishop of Buffalo, Bishop Robert J. Cunningham, bishop of Syracuse and native of Kenmore, and Bishop Donald W. Trautman, bishop of Erie and a native of Buffalo.  Priests and deacons from the Diocese of Buffalo, Diocese of Portland and Archdiocese of Boston will also participate.
           
More than 70 singers and musicians will take part in the installation Mass.  The Diocesan Festival Chorus will be under the direction of Alan Lukas, director of music for the diocese, who will also be principal organist.  Tim Socha will direct the Cathedral Choir for the prelude music and will assist Lukas as an organist.  There will be five cantors and five additional instrumentalists.

During the Mass, petitions will be read in several different languages, including Spanish, Burmese, Vietnamese, Korean, Polish and Italian.  The Knights of St. Gregory, Knights of the Holy Sepulchre, Ladies of the Holy Sepulchre, Knights of Columbus and Knights of St. John will serve as the honor guard.  Members of the Diocesan Youth Board will be banner bearers.

Bishop Malone will welcome leaders from a number of other religious faith communities in Western New York.  Because of limited seating, the cathedral capacity is 1,200, the installation Mass is a ticketed event, with more than 2,100 invitations sent out. A reception at the Hyatt Regency Buffalo will immediately follow the installation Mass.
           
In the weeks following his installation, Bishop Malone will be traveling throughout Western New York as he continues to familiarize himself with the diocese, its people and its ministries.  On Monday, Aug. 13, at 5 p.m., at Our Lady of Peace Church in Clarence, Bishop Malone will celebrate Mass and attend a reception for the women and men religious of the diocese.  On Saturday, Aug.18, Bishop Malone will celebrate Mass and attend a reception at Christ the King Seminary in East Aurora with permanent deacons, their wives, candidates to the permanent diaconate and their wives.

Broadcast and social media coverage of the installation Mass will be provided the week of Aug. 6.

EWTN coverage

MASS (SPECIAL - CATHEDRALS ACROSS AMERICA)

Wednesday  08/10/2012  at 2:30 PM

AND repeated

Thursday  08/11/2012 at 12:00 AM

Bishops' Latest on HHS 14 March 2012

BISHOPS PROMISE TO CONTINUE ‘VIGOROUS EFFORTS’ AGAINST HHS VIOLATIONS OF RELIGIOUS FREEDOM IN HEALTH CARE REFORM MANDATE

Declare government has no place defining religion, religious ministry

Seek protection for conscience rights of institutions, individuals

Stress action with the public, White House, Congress, courts

WASHINGTON—The U.S. bishops are strongly united in their ongoing and determined  efforts to protect religious freedom, the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) said in a March 14 statement.

Cardinal Timothy Dolan

           The Administrative Committee, chaired by Cardinal Timothy M. Dolan of New York, president of the USCCB, is the highest authority of the bishops’ conference outside the semi-annual sessions of the full body of bishops. The Committee’s membership consists of the elected chairmen of all the USCCB permanent committees and an elected bishop representative from each of the geographic regions of the USCCB.

           The full statement can be found at www. www.usccb.org/issues-and-action/religious-liberty/upload/Admin-Religious-Freedom.pdf.

           The Administrative Committee said it was “strongly unified and intensely focused in its opposition to the various threats to religious freedom in our day.” The bishops will continue their vigorous work of education on religious freedom, dialogue with the executive branch, legislative initiatives and efforts in the courts to defend religious freedom. They promised a longer statement on the principles at the heart of religious freedom, which will come later from the bishops’ Ad Hoc Committee on Religious Liberty.

           The bishops noted that the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) mandate that forces all private health plans to provide coverage of sterilization and contraceptives – including abortion-inducing drugs – called for an immediate response. Of particular concern, they said, are a religious exemption from the mandate that the bishops deem “arbitrarily narrow” and an “unspecified and dubious future‘accommodation’’’ offered to other religious organizations that are denied the exemption.

           The bishops thanked supporters from the Catholic community and beyond “who have stood firmly with us in our vigorous opposition to this unjust and illegal mandate.”

           “It is your enthusiastic unity in defense of religious freedom that has made such a dramatic and positive impact in this historic public debate.”

           The bishops said this dispute is not about access to contraceptives but about the government’s forcing the Church to provide them. Their concerns are not just for the Catholic Church but also for “those who recognize that their cherished beliefs may be next on the block.”

           “Indeed, this is not about the Church wanting to force anybody to do anything; it is instead about the federal government forcing the Church –consisting of its faithful and all but a few of its institutions – to act against Church teachings,” they said.

           The Church has worked for universal health care in the United States since 1919, they added, and said the current issue “is not a Republican or Democratic, a conservative or liberal issue; it is an American issue.”

           The bishops called the HHS mandate “an unwarranted government definition of religion,” with government deciding who is a religious employer deserving exemption from the law.

           “The introduction of this unprecedented defining of faith communities and their ministries has precipitated this struggle for religious freedom,”the bishops said.

           “Government has no place defining religion and religious ministry,”they said.  “If this definition is allowed to stand, it will spread throughout federal law, weakening its healthy tradition of generous respect for religious freedom and diversity,” they said.

           The bishops said the government’s foray into church governance “where government has no legal competence or authority” is beyond disturbing. Those deemed by HHS not to be “religious employers,” the bishops said, “will be forced by government to violate their own teachings within their very own institutions. This is not only an injustice in itself, but it also undermines the effective proclamation of those teachings to the faithful and to the world.”

           The bishops also called the HHS mandate “a violation of personal civil rights.”  The new mandate creates a class of people “with no conscience protection at all: individuals who, in their daily lives, strive constantly to live in accordance with their faith and values,” the bishops said. “They too face a government mandate to aid in providing‘services’ contrary to those values – whether in their sponsoring of, and payment for, insurance as employers; their payment of insurance premiums as employees, or as insurers themselves – without even the semblance of exemptions.”

           The bishops called for the Catholic faithful, and all people of good will throughout the nation to join them in prayer and penance “for our leaders and for the complete protection of our First Freedom – religious liberty.”

           “Prayer is the ultimate source of our strength,” the bishops said,“for without God we can do nothing. But with God all things are possible.”

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