Is Catholic News Service in Open Rebellion?

[buffalo]

Is Catholic News Service in Open Rebellion?

Washington DC, USA (MetroCatholic) Catholic News Service (CNS) – an agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - is the world’s largest Catholic news organization of its kind. It was created in 1920 in order to serve as a reliable voice for communicating the Church’s message to a global audience, and today CNS generates news items and editorial pieces that are reprinted in more than 200 Catholic publications worldwide.
A success story? Not exactly.
In a piece published on the popular web portal Catholic Exchange, [full Story available here: http://catholicexchange.com/2009/06/11/119389/ ] author and columnist Louie Verrecchio outlines “CNS’ failure to consistently apply reliably Catholic editorial standards” throughout the tenure of Editor-in-Chief and Director Anthony Spence who joined CNS in 2004.

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[TMC]

Is Catholic News Service in Open Rebellion?

Washington DC, USA (MetroCatholic) Catholic News Service (CNS) – an agency of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops - is the world’s largest Catholic news organization of its kind. It was created in 1920 in order to serve as a reliable voice for communicating the Church’s message to a global audience, and today CNS generates news items and editorial pieces that are reprinted in more than 200 Catholic publications worldwide.
A success story? Not exactly.
In a piece published on the popular web portal Catholic Exchange, [full Story available here: http://catholicexchange.com/2009/06/11/119389/

] author and columnist Louie Verrecchio outlines “CNS’ failure to consistently apply reliably Catholic editorial standards” throughout the tenure of Editor-in-Chief and Director Anthony Spence who joined CNS in 2004.

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Hmm… to translate - CNS’s competitor declares that it is better than CNS. Why is this not surprising to me?

 

[JimG]

Apparently something about CNS was worrying Archbishop Raymond Burke:

"Earlier this year, Verrecchio notes, the situation at CNS “had become so problematic that Archbishop Raymond Burke, Prefect of the Apostolic Signatura at the Vatican, was moved to take the extraordinarily bold step of criticizing CNS from Rome, saying, ‘The bishops need to look at our Catholic News Service; they need to review their coverage of [the Church’s moral and social teachings] and give some new direction.’” " But the USCCB has always had something of a problem in regards to communications, it seems to me. I recall when EWTN was first founded, the USCCB was not impressed, and started its own TV network, CTNA, which went nowhere.

Now with Catholic radio stations springing up in many places through lay initiative, many of the stations are not getting much buy-in from their local bishops.

 

[vz71]

Given the history of the USCCB in this country, I have always found myself defaulting to a position of carefully researching and filtering content that comes from or is supported by them.

Wished it did not have to be that way though.