The Catholic Herald Institute, with its HQ in New York, is a new non-profit think tank devoted to renewing Catholic identity in America and defending and promoting Catholic values in the public square through educational, programming, awards, seminars, talks and events across the USA and beyond.
Already respected as a world leading Catholic magazine voice, since 1888, the Catholic Herald Institute (with a charitable trust UK affiliate in London), will provide international thought leadership to safeguard Catholic values on the most important political, moral and spiritual issues of the day.
The Herald Institute is headed by Mark Ackermann, founder and principal of Mark Ackermann Associates. The Chair is Amanda Bowman, a former board member of the Sheen Center for Cultural Studies in New York. Other senior figures include Jamie MacGuire, former executive director of the Portsmouth Institute and editor of the Portsmouth Review.
Mark Ackerman is a veteran of the not-for-profit Catholic world, including leadership roles of major Catholic organisations including St. Vincent’s Catholic Medical Centers of New York and of the Catholic Foundation of Long Island, Mark is a highly respected figure in the US Catholic non-profit landscape.
Mark worked with Cardinal Egan as the executive director of Pope Benedict’s Apostolic Journey and visit to New York and the United Nations. He also worked with the Vatican’s Mission to the United Nations to coordinate portions of Pope Francis’s Apostolic Journey to New York and the United Nations. Mark holds a BA from the Catholic University of America and a MS degree in not-for-profit management from New York University. He serves on a number of not-for-profit boards including the board of directors of the Foundation for Justice and Peace in the Vatican and is a special adviser to the Path to Peace Foundation at the Holy See’s Mission to the United Nations.
Since 1888, the Herald’s intellectual and moral mission includes:
• Safeguarding the traditional cause and principles of the Catholic church and her doctrine.
• Being an important source of international news and papal communications for the faithful, as well as covering the world of current affairs, arts and culture through a Catholic prism.
• Defending the dignity of human life from embryo to death.
• Defending and upholding a collective Western tradition of culture and faith.
• Supporting the idea of a morally rooted culture and society that believes in freedom of responsibility and democratic government.
For more information on the Herald Institute, please contact Mark Ackermann, CEO, Catholic Herald Institute.
Email: [email protected]
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The key to the Herald’s influence in the Catholic Conversation today, and tackling the crisis of Catholic identity, is being able to fund the very best Herald writers and Fellows, writing from around the world. This is why we have launched our new Herald Journalism Fellowship Programme which allows donors to sponsor Herald fellows in particular countries around the world.
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• The division in the church is now increasingly a battle for the very soul and future of the Catholic faith.
• The Catholic Church and community is facing its largest crisis since Vatican II in the 1960s. This, however, has created the Catholic media’s greatest opportunity for digital engagement on multiple platforms.
• Our vision is to use the Catholic Herald Institute to complement our 135 year-old magazine so that the Herald becomes a thought leader in the front trenches of today’s cultural and religious debate.
Mark Ackermann, CEO
The Catholic Herald Institute
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New York, NY 10019
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Email: [email protected]
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