Catholic News Service (CNS) is an American
news agency
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owned by the
United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) that reports on the
Catholic Church.
The agency's domestic service is set to shut down at the end of 2022, but its Rome bureau will continue to operate and provide news, photos and videos about the pope and the Vatican to Catholic newspapers and magazines. The news agency's distribution platform and archives will be acquired by Our Sunday Visitor and used to launch the new OSV News Service.
History
CNS was established in 1920 as the
National Catholic Welfare Council (NCWC) Press Department.
In the 1960s it became the National Catholic News Service, and dropped "National" from its name in 1986 to indicate its intention to provide worldwide coverage.
It is now owned by the USCCB, the successor to the NCWC.
From 2004 to 2016, Tony Spence led CNS as its director and editor-in-chief. He was removed in April 2016 after a number of Catholics criticized his posts on
Twitter that favored
LGBT rights.
Catholic News Service announced on May 4, 2022 that it would cease its operations in the United States effective December 31, 2022.
Organization
CNS describes itself as the primary source of national and global news that the US
Catholic
The Catholic Church, also known as the Roman Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with 1.3 billion baptized Catholics worldwide . It is among the world's oldest and largest international institutions, and has played a ...
press reports. It is editorially independent and a financially self-sustaining division of the
US Conference of Catholic Bishops
The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) is the episcopal conference of the Catholic Church in the United States. Founded in 1966 as the joint National Conference of Catholic Bishops (NCCB) and United States Catholic Conference (US ...
. It is based in
Washington, DC,
United States.
The documentary service of CNS, ''Origins'', "publishes texts from the Vatican,
pe, bishops, Congress, Senate, Supreme Court and church leaders around the world".
See also
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Our Sunday Visitor
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Catholic News Agency
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Crux (online newspaper)
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History
''Crux'' was launched in ...
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America (magazine)
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National Catholic Reporter
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Catholic World News
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References
External links
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''Origins'' online
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1920 establishments in the United States
News agencies based in the United States