THE Catholic Leader has received two awards for excellence from the Australasian Catholic Press Association.
At the ACPA’s 2022 awards presentation dinner on September 8 the Brisbane-based Leader won the first award of the night, Best News Content, for Mark Bowling’s series of news stories covering the first assembly of Australia’s historic Plenary Council.
That assembly was held in October 2021 during COVID-19 restrictions across the country.
The Leader also received a highly commended award for Best Content Catechesis & Mission for ‘Matt shines a light on our faith’ (a newspaper feature about Evangelisation Brisbane’s advertising campaign featuring cricketer Matthew Hayden, inviting baptised Catholics across the Brisbane Archdiocese to find out more about what it means to be baptised).
Acting managing editor Mark Bowling was delighted to represent The Catholic Leader at the ACPA awards presentation dinner at the Sheraton Hotel, Melbourne on September 8.
“Our small, dedicated team really treats media as a mission,” Mr Bowling said.
The Melbourne-based Australian Redemptorist publication The Majellan won the Bishop Philip Kennedy Award for overall excellence.
The national family publication, started in the late 1940’s and also publishes digital content via its website. It is packed with stories about family and faith to help families be the best they can be.
More than 60 Catholic media and communications professionals gathered for the occasion, and for the association’s annual conference, culminating in Mass at St Patrick’s Cathedral with Melbourne Archbishop Peter Comensoli.
This year’s theme of the Conference focused on the words of Pope Francis from his 2021 World Day of Communications message, “Witnesses of the Truth, to go, to see, to share”.
2022 was the first conference for ACPA, following two years of cancellations caused by COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions.
The awards, are held annually, recognise excellence in Catholic magazines, newspapers and digital publications across Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific.
Judges are professionals working in Church and/or the mainstream media.
The Catholic Leader continues to deliver both print and online excellence for readers across the Brisbane Archdiocese, across Queensland and around the globe.
