Catholic media, like their secular counterpart, is facing a day of reckoning caused by the rapid switch from print to digital media, as well as financial challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic and other factors.
Loss of print media seen as posing challenges to U.S. church communications
Sharing stories of faith revives faith of others, pope tells magazine staff
Helping the staff celebrate the magazine’s 150th anniversary, the pope said Catholic media have a mission to help believers get to know the faith and struggles of their brothers and sisters around the world.
Magazine, communications staff win national awards
The awards were announced July 7 at the 2022 Catholic Media Conference held in Portland, Oregon.
Our Sunday Visitor announces launch of new Catholic news service in 2023
The publisher of Our Sunday Visitor said July 6 that the company would fill the void left by the closure of the domestic operations of Catholic News Service in January 2023 with OSV News.
From the Editor: Communication is key to a vibrant Church
The announcement that CNS will cease domestic operations at the end of 2022 also impacts what we do at The Central Minnesota Catholic.
Greg Erlandson: The squeakiest wheels and the rest of us
What if there are not one but two chasms that divide Americans today?
Magazine, communications staff receive seven national awards
The Central Minnesota Catholic magazine and Office of Communications and Development received seven awards from the Catholic Media Association for work published in 2020.
Listen, respond to modern world, Vatican panel tells Catholic media
When Vatican communication leaders met virtually with U.S. and Canadian Catholic journalists and communication leaders June 30, they urged the group to keep up their work, think of new ways to have a broader reach and not get weighed down by society’s current polarization.