Catholic News Service

Catholic News Service (CNS) is an American news agency covering the Roman Catholic Church. CNS was established in 1920 as the National Catholic Welfare Council (NCWC) Press Department.[1] In the 1960s it became the National Catholic News Service, and dropped "National" from its name in 1986 to indicate its intention to provide worldwide coverage.[2][3]

Description

The news agency labels itself as the primary source of national and world news that appears in the U.S. Catholic press. It is editorially independent and a financially self-sustaining division of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. CNS is based in Washington, D.C.[4][5]

It has a documentary service called Origins, which "publishes texts from the Vatican, pope, bishops, Congress, Senate, Supreme Court and church leaders around the world".[6][7]

From 2004 to 2016 the Catholic News Service was headed by its director and editor-in-chief, Tony Spence. Spence was removed in April 2016 after receiving criticism from some conservative Catholics about posts he made on Twitter in support of LGBT rights.[8][9]

There is a similar agency called the Catholic News Agency.

See also

Sources

  1. ↑ Thomas J. Reese (1992). A Flock of Shepherds: The National Conference of Catholic Bishops. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 273–. ISBN 978-1-55612-557-7. Programs in the budget serving others include Catholic News Service (CNS) and Migration and Refugee Services (MRS). CNS, for example, is a wire service founded in 1920 that provides news stories for 160 Catholic newspapers. It is a $3.9 ...
  2. ↑ Una M. Cadegan (7 January 2016). In the Logos of Love: Promise and Predicament in Catholic Intellectual Life. Oxford University Press. pp. 173–. ISBN 978-0-19-028004-8. Catholic News Service, created in 1920 by the American bishops, was and remains editorially independent, a financially self-sustaining division of the US ... The National Catholic Welfare Council Press department was the original service. ... The department was reorganized in the 1960s and the name changed to National Catholic News Service of NC News. In 1986, the name was again changed to Catholic News.
  3. ↑ Historical Note, United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Communications Department/Catholic News Service, American Catholic History Research Center and University Archives, Catholic University of America (accessed 2016-07-19).
  4. ↑ "Mission and History – Catholic News Service". Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  5. ↑ Chester Gillis (29 April 2015). Catholic Faith in America. Infobase Learning. pp. 215–. ISBN 978-1-4381-4034-6. Catholic News Service, Washington, D.C. The oldest andlargest news wire service specializing in reporting on religion, ...
  6. ↑ Crisis Magazine. Sophia Institute Press. November 1982. pp. 7–. were carried by the Religious News Service, which omitted the crucial paragraph, and by National Catholic News Service, which included it. Two weeks later, however, Origins, the documentary service of National Catholic News Service, ran a ..
  7. ↑ Mary Ann Walsh (2003). John Paul II: A Light for the World : Essays and Reflections on the Papacy of John Paul II. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 253–. ISBN 978-1-58051-142-1. Others deserving mention by name include Catholic News Service, especially Thomas N. Lorsung ... both factual and poetic; the staff of Origins, Catholic News Service's treasured documentary service; and the Catholic News Service library.
  8. ↑ Domonoske, Camila (15 April 2016). "Top Editor At Catholic News Service Reportedly Pushed Out Over Pro-LGBT Tweets". NPR. Retrieved 25 July 2016.
  9. ↑ Coday, Dennis (14 April 2016). "Catholic News Service editor asked to resign". National Catholic Reporter. Retrieved 25 July 2016.

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