Saturday, December 3, 2022

The loss of Catholic print media

 The Pilot is the official weekly newspaper of the Archdiocese of Boston, published from offices in Braintree, Massachusetts. On December 3, 2022, it published an article, "Loss of print media seen as posing challenges to U. S. church communications."  The link to the thirty-paragraph analysis is HERE.

Wednesday, November 16, 2022

Msgr. Thomas J. Shelley, 1937-2022

With sadness, I report the death of Msgr. Thomas J. Shelley, author of several books on the history of Catholics in the Archdiocese of New York. He died yesterday. The Mass of Christian Burial will take place at Ascension church, 221 West 107th Street, Manhattan, 10 a.m., Friday, November 18, 2022. Please see an encomium on the website of America Magazine, linked HERE.

Friday, May 20, 2022

In Six Months, Catholic New York Gone

Shocking and disappointing news arrived this morning. The archdiocese has announced the closure of the bimonthly (every other week) Catholic New York, which will cease publication in November.

Please see the link HERE.

About 1985 , the archdiocese established the weekly Catholic New York to replace the family-owned Catholic News. The Ridder family published the Catholic News since 1886, when it was founded by Herman Ridder. The Catholic News Publishing Co. of Mamaroneck still publishes an annual Catholic Telephone Guide, a valuable list of the parishes, schools, personnel and works of archdioceses and dioceses in vast metropolitan New York (New York, Newark, Bridgeport, Brooklyn, Rockville Centre, Camden, Trenton, Metuchen, Patterson).