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. Staffed by lay Catholic journalists, its editorial policy is generally conservative with an emphasis on orthodoxy. Lawler founded CWN after working at the

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. It features an archive of over 47,000 news stories as well as editorial commentary (the "Off the Record"

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) and a forum for subscribers ("Sound Off"). The service was purchased by Trinity Communications, a non-profit corporation focused on Catholic organization web-development. In September 2005, CWN published an article that "set off fear among some priests that the Vatican was about to institute an outright ban on gay seminarians," according to the ''

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''.

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