Angelus News | July 29, 2022 | Vol. 7 No. 15
On the cover: A pilgrim walks on his knees outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2019. For our special pilgrimage issue, on Page 10 Mike Aquilina writes on how the urge to leave everything and travel afar is as old as Christianity itself. On Page 14, Elise Ureneck recounts the unexpected graces of her last pilgrimage with her late mother, and on Page 16, California historian Stephen Binz points the way to the pilgrim path in our own backyard. On Page 20, Pasadena native Jenny Gorman Patton tells of finding the healing she needed, rather than the one she wanted, at the Marian shrine of Lourdes, France.
On the cover: A pilgrim walks on his knees outside the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in 2019. For our special pilgrimage issue, on Page 10 Mike Aquilina writes on how the urge to leave everything and travel afar is as old as Christianity itself. On Page 14, Elise Ureneck recounts the unexpected graces of her last pilgrimage with her late mother, and on Page 16, California historian Stephen Binz points the way to the pilgrim path in our own backyard. On Page 20, Pasadena native Jenny Gorman Patton tells of finding the healing she needed, rather than the one she wanted, at the Marian shrine of Lourdes, France.
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Participants at the 2019 C3 Conference. | JOHNMICHAEL FILIPPONE<br />
Flipping the switch<br />
C3 Conference to apply pandemic lessons to a post-COVID era.<br />
BY EVAN HOLGUIN<br />
Nearly 1,000 people are expected<br />
to join the Catholic Communication<br />
Collaboration (C3)<br />
Conference in person on Aug. 2 — the<br />
first time since the COVID-19 pandemic<br />
sent it, like most events, online<br />
only.<br />
But as the Archdiocese of Los Angeles’<br />
technological initiative, C3 is using<br />
the opportunity not merely to return to<br />
a pre-pandemic status quo but to take<br />
advantage of newly developed technological<br />
infrastructure to expand the<br />
reach of their conference.<br />
A descendant of the archdiocese’s<br />
foray into Educational Broadband<br />
Service (EBS) licenses from the 1960s,<br />
C3 officially launched in 2012.<br />
“We kind of referred to it as swampland<br />
back then,” conference chair Paul<br />
Hernandez said, “because as big as the<br />
archdiocese was, it was a good way to<br />
communicate and have some content<br />
to go out.”<br />
What once was used for PBS-style<br />
television programming like “Davey<br />
and Goliath” from “Gumby” creator<br />
Art Clokey, has since become the<br />
foundational wavelength for cellphone<br />
signals. By licensing their EBS rights<br />
to cellular companies like T-Mobile,<br />
the archdiocese can invest in new<br />
types of technology, adapt to unexpected<br />
needs, and host the annual C3<br />
Conference to provide training on new<br />
technological trends.<br />
C3 programming has been so successful<br />
that the average LA Catholic has<br />
probably benefited from them without<br />
realizing. Throughout the pandemic<br />
lockdowns, C3 service technicians<br />
helped parishes set up streaming options<br />
for Mass, provided video conferencing<br />
training, and brought cloudbased<br />
collaboration tools like Microsoft<br />
365 or Google Suite.<br />
For thousands of students, C3 enabled<br />
the unexpected shift to remote<br />
learning in March 2020. Through the<br />
Ignite program, C3 provided 31,000<br />
iPads, equipped with wi-fi hotspots, to<br />
students at more than 190 archdiocesan<br />
schools — ensuring no student<br />
missed schooling due to technological<br />
22 • ANGELUS • <strong>July</strong> <strong>29</strong>, <strong>2022</strong>
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