If You Had Only One Resource For Catholic News/Opinion/etc

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Imagine that you were limited to Catholic Answers Forums and one other source, be it a blog or a website, a TV channel or a magazine, as your source for all things Catholic this year. What would you pick to be your 2020 source?

(Rule for this thought experiment, you will also be barred from clicking through on sources posted on CAF if they are not your pre-selected source. For example, if you choose EWTN or Church Militant or Lifesite or America Magazine or your Diocese paper as your source, you cannot then click on a National Catholic Reporter or First Things article.)

My sole source would be Vatican.va. What do you choose?
  • USCCB or your Bishop’s Conference
  • Diocese News Source
  • EWTN/National Catholic Register
  • National Catholic Reporter
  • Catholic Culture
  • LifeSite News
  • Church Militant
  • Vatican Site
  • CatholicTV
  • Crisis Magazine
  • L’Osservatore Romano
  • Other (please tell us who)
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I like Church Militant but I use others as well. This gives a more balanced view.
 
Big Pulpit. It pulls in articles and statements from a variety of Catholic news sites and lists them in one place.
 
That kind of goes against the spirit of the question, what if you could only use ONE of those sources.
 
OnePeterFive, Rotate Caeli, The Catholic Thing, none of which were on the list. On the list? Probably LifeSiteNews followed by the Register and Crisis.
 
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This is not really a fair question. I need EWTN TV/ radio/ streaming or I cannot get my twice-yearly Plenary Indulgence for the Papal Urbi et Orbi blessings. Nor watch any canonizations.

My runner-up would be Catholic Culture because I use their saint collect pages daily to say the collects and get the indulgence for that. I never read their opinion stuff, I’m just there for the saint collects and the stories, prayers and recipes.

Other than that, I use everything on the list except CatholicTV (I don’t know what that is). Other stuff I use would be OnePeterFive, Catholic News Agency, Aleteia, ChurchPop, Independent Catholic News, WAOB (We Are One Body) Radio, United States Grace Force page, Fr. Z’s Blog, Rorate Caeli, I’m sure I’m missing a bunch here.
 
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Catholic News Agency.

It’s more middle of the road than its sister publication, National Catholic Register. It also tends to cover a wider variety of Catholic news.
 
The Way (our archeparchial newspaper), RISU, EWTN, 1P5, The Catholic Thing, LifeSite News, The Remnant (no flags, please - they have good articles on the Saints!), National Catholic Register and Vatican.va.
 
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Catholic News Agency - the primary source I believe US Catholics should be using - is missing from the list. It’s the most balanced and broad in coverage. I certainly would have to choose none over some of these other options that only pose as news.
 
I chose “Other”. It would be a tough choice between America Magazine and the UK-based The Tablet.
 
Hmmm…I don’t think so. I don’t always like CNA, but I think EWTN has become more biased, so they’re slightly less credible in my book.
 
I would pick the tv series of Venerable Fulton Sheen from the very beginning to his last. And I would pick that over CAF.

CAF is very fickle. It is open to anyone to join and offer their opinion and expertise on different topics.
It can also suspend and ban people in a heart beat, based on the community flagging system, a biased system, which makes it unreliable as a resource.
 
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I gave up trying to figure out this place a long time ago.
 
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I like EWTN/NCRegister, and I also look at Church Militant and Lifesite News now and then, bearing in mind what they are. Catholic Culture is good too.

I have a few traditionalist sites I look at, but I won’t name them here — doing so could get an argument started that would solve nothing, but I find them very useful in an “ear pressed down to the train track” kind of way (in other words, to get the skinny on some things that you won’t get anywhere else). I am in union with the Church and the diocesan bishop, and I intend to keep it that way.
 
I didn’t take the poll as ownership but reporting style and tone. They do have distinctly different “flavors” for each of their companies, at least in my opinion.
 
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