Institute for Communication and Religion

Saints and holy ones who were "communications experts" and what you can learn from them

Saints and holy ones as communications experts? For sure, there are many of them! Today we look at some 20th-century courageous Catholic communicators and what we can learn from them in our digital culture. Jon Radwan, Ph.D., Director of the Institute for Communication and Religion, and Associate Professor of Communication in the College of Human Development, Culture, and Media at Seton Hall University, Dr. Dianne Traflet, J.D., S.T.D., Associate Dean for Graduate Studies and Administration, and Assistant Professor of Pastoral Theology at Immaculate Conception Seminary School of Theology at Seton Hall University and Colette Liddy, adjunct in the Department of Communication, Media and the Arts share insights about holy ones who innovatively responded to the signs of their times in transmitting the faith:  Servant of God Dorothy Day, Saint Oscar Romero, Saint Titus Brandsma, Venerable Fulton Sheen and Blessed Manuel Lozano Garrido. 

This podcast was produced as a project in Seton Hall University’s Teaching, Learning and Technology Center’s Summer Podcast Workshop Series. It was recorded in the University’s new Innovation Hub, a campus-wide destination for hands-on discovery, immersive learning and high-quality content creation. 

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ICR Director Jon Radwan speaks with professor, journalist, and author Anthony DePalma about his new book On This Ground: Hardship and Hope at the Toughest Prep School in America.

For Contemplative Community Week 2025 ICR Director Jon Radwan interviewed Dr. Pradeep Deshpande (Professor Emeritus, University of Louisville) and Dr. A.D. Amar (Professor, SHU Stillman School of Business) on “Meditation and The Bhagavad Gita." Listen and learn about how spiritual wisdom can guide physical practices.

Listen to the Forum on Courage: How Monsignor Fahy helped me Learn and Lead. This event included a reading of Monsignor Fahy’s 1970 Inaugural Address and a Q&A session.

Join Dr. Deshpande for a relaxing meditation and mindful breathing workshop.

ICR Director Jon Radwan interviews Msgr. Dick Liddy, one of Seton Hall’s most committed educators, to gather and document oral history about SHU and the people who make our university a very special ‘home for the heart, the mind, and the spirit'.

Join Jon Radwan, PhD., and his co-authors, Dale Cyphert and Ellen Gorsevski, as they discuss their newly published book Ethics in Contact Rhetoric: Communication and the Dance of Bodies and Power.

Listen to the 2024 Scholars Forum in the Catholic Intellectual Tradition, featuring Jon Radwan, PhD., speaking about his soon to be published book, Ethics in Contact Rhetoric: Communication and the Dance of Bodies and Power.

Today we have with us Dr. Erin Zoutendam and her student, Tristan Nguyen. Dr. Zoutendam is a historian of Christian spirituality, with a focus on  mysticism, prayer, and biblical interpretation. She recently was awarded Manfred Lautenschlaeger Award for Theological Promise, by the University of Heidelberg.

Dr. Zoutendam and Tristan are here to discuss Julian of Norwich's Showings.