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Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Lessons from a Twitter hoax that claimed Pope Benedict had died
No, Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI is not dead. No, Pope Francis is not resigning. And no, the Vatican is not hiding a secret time machine.
Posted inFaith, News
Our Sunday Visitor announces launch of new Catholic news service after U.S. bishops shutter CNS
Scott Richert, publisher of Our Sunday Visitor, said the Catholic publishing company would fill the void left behind by the closure of the domestic operations of Catholic News Service in January 2023.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
High-ranking priest put on leave for allegedly using dating app Grindr reassigned to Wisconsin parish
A former high-ranking official at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, who resigned following allegations that he logged onto a dating app, has a new assignment.
Posted inFaith, Short Take
Catholic News Service provides vital context that secular media misses. Shutting it down is a mistake.
The U.S. bishops’ decision to shut down Catholic News Service by the end of this year will deprive the rest of the world of a reliable and authoritative source for the church’s take on things.
Posted inCommunity, Dispatches
Father Sam Sawyer named 15th editor in chief of America magazine
Sam Sawyer, S.J., will take the helm of the 113-year-old magazine following the departure of the current president and editor in chief, Matt Malone, S.J., later this year.
Posted inDispatches, Faith
Catholic News Service closure opens the door to partisan and ideological church coverage, Catholic journalists warn
“There’s going to be a big gap in what our parishioners are going to know about what’s going on in the U.S. and throughout North America.”
Posted inFaith, News
U.S. bishops announce Catholic News Service to cease domestic operations at year’s end
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops announced to staff May 4 the closure of the Washington and New York offices of Catholic News Service. 21 employees will be laid off.
Posted inEditorials, Politics & Society
Facebook is threatening the common good
Facebook’s business model, built on monetizing human attention while outsourcing human judgment to algorithms, is a uniquely comprehensive and dangerous abdication of responsibility.
Posted inPolitics & Society, Short Take
Lies can cost lives. Our deceitful and dishonest political culture needs to change.
Our elected officials are failing us, elevating artful pandering and dishonesty over real solutions, writes Marty Meehan in an essay adapted from his speech to a Vatican conference on the media.