EWTN - World Youth Day 2005

Deborah M. Piroch joined EWTN Global Catholic Network in 2001 as host, producer and reporter for the Network’s daily radio news program, “Catholic World Today”. A broadcast journalist for over a decade, she has worked exclusively in major and mainly international markets. Past career experience includes reporting and producing for WQED-FM Public Radio (Pittsburgh), Germany’s international broadcasting service, Radio Deutsche Welle, and the American equivalent, The Voice of America (Washington, D.C.). Until recently Radio Deutsche Welle was located in Cologne, coincidentally the site of this year’s World Youth Day. Deb was based out of Cologne for three years and remembers her time in the city fondly.

When not assisting with World Youth Day coverage, she serves as EWTN’s International Coordinator for our German-language programming and reporter for events like EWTN’s annual March for Life broadcasts. She holds degrees from Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts (B.A. English & German Literature), the nation’s oldest institution of higher learning for women, and Indiana University at Bloomington in Indiana (M.A. English Literature). Those she has interviewed range from former U.S. presidential candidates Alan Keyes and Patrick J. Buchanan to famed choreographer Merce Cunningham.

Father Peter Mitchell

Father Peter was ordained for the Diocese of Lincoln, Nebraska, in 1999 and is a graduate of St. Charles Borromeo Seminary, Philadelphia. He is the pastor of Assumption Parish in Dwight, Nebraska and St. Wenceslaus Parish in Bee, Nebraska, as well as a professor at St. Gregory the Great Seminary of the Diocese of Lincoln. He holds a License in Church History from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome and is a doctoral candidate in Church History. He entered the seminary following his pilgrimage to World Youth Day 1993 in Denver and has also been at World Youth Days in Paris 1997, Rome 2000 and Toronto 2002.

Father Mark Mary, MFVA

Father Mark entered religious life in March of 1994 and was ordained a priest in October 2003. He grew up in Huntsville Alabama and attended the Colorado School of Mines. He earned a B.S. in Engineering Physics and worked for two years in Huntsville for a small company that specialized in defense contracts for the government. Father Mark is currently the Novice Master and chaplain for EWTN. He can often be seen assisting Fr. Francis Mary Stone, host of Life on the Rock, either with co-hosting the show or operating one of the studio cameras that has become popularly known as the “Friar Cam.”






								North America Coverage ~ All Times Eastern LIFE ON THE ROCK- 20th WORLD YOUTH DAY WRAP- UP (90:00) Thursday August 25, 8:00 PM For other countries coverage

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