The CCRT-Solidaire association will be dissolved – Swiss Catholic Portal

The Catholic media support association CCRT-solidaire will be dissolved on November 22, 2024 in Lausanne, its members announced in a press release. On this occasion, André Kolly, former director of the Catholic Radio and Television Center (CCRT) will present his book Mgr Jacques Haas – The passion to communicate (Ed. Saint-Augustin).

“Our general meeting of September 24, 2023 took the decision by the required majority to hand over its real estate to the Jacques Haas Foundation,” indicates the CCRT-Solidaire association. The donation was recorded on December 13, 2023 before the notary Jean-Luc Marti. On June 20, 2024, the general meeting of CCRT-Solidaire approved the accounts for the 2023 financial year and entrusted the committee with the task of preparing the meeting which will dissolve CCRT-Solidaire.

The members of the association also wanted the Jacques Haas Foundation to maintain management of the buildings. The Jacques Haas* Foundation, for its part, modified its statutes by giving itself the sole aim of supporting Cath-lnfo.

The Catholic Radio-Television Center (CCRT) was founded in 1958 to ensure the presence of Catholic broadcasts in French-speaking public media (see box). The objectives of the CCRT have, since 2015, been taken up by Cath-Info, which brings together cath.ch and RTS religion. The CCRT-Solidaire association has until now existed, in particular to manage assets whose profits go to Cath-Info.

At the end of the celebration which will follow the assembly, André Kolly, director of the CCRT from 1988 to 2010, will present his book: Mgr Jacques Haas – The passion to communicate (Ed. Saint-Augustin), which he dedicated to the founder of the CCRT. (cath.ch/com/bh)

Assembly: Friday November 22, 2024 at 3 p.m. at the Saitn-Joseph Parish Hall – Av. de Morges 66 in Lausanne

Le CCRT
Born from the desire to ensure quality collaboration on Catholic and ecumenical broadcasts on the public audiovisual service, the Catholic Radio and Television Center was formed as an association in 1958, even if its activity dates back much earlier. For more than 50 years, it was supported in its missions by donations from the “Friends of the CCRT”, by financial contributions from the SSR, by subsidies from the Lenten Action and the French-speaking Roman Catholic Federation, then by the Roman Catholic Central Conference of Switzerland (RKZ-Zurich), the Sunday Media Collection and other own resources. Today, he manages the real estate he owns and allocates the income to Cath-Info. The CCRT represented an exceptional adventure: ensuring the Catholic presence on public service broadcasts, it evolved towards ecumenical collaboration, then engaged in interreligious dialogue. Its notoriety in the French-speaking audiovisual landscape undoubtedly contributed to the success, in spring 2016, of a petition in support of religious broadcasts on RTS collecting more than 25,000 signatures. FJH

*Jacques Haasborn in 1908, founded the Catholic Center for Radio and Television (CCRT) in 1958. He was elected president of UNDA (International Catholic Association for Radio and Television) from 1962 to 1968. We find him at the Expo 64 of Vidy-Lausanne, at the Second Vatican Council and at the Synod 72, each time in landmark roles. He becomes the natural and privileged interpreter of all the great moments in Catholic and world history, including the arrival of the first men on the moon. He is one of the Swiss priests who has met the most popes, presidents, princes and actors of cultural life. His funeral on March 1, 1973, was attended by an impressive number of bishops, priests and friends. A.K.