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Catholic News Service (CNS) is an Americannews agency owned by theUnited States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB) that reports on theCatholic Church.
The agency's domestic (United States) service shut down on 30 December 2022, but CNS continues to function and provide reports concerning world events and Catholic news. The news agency's domestic distribution platform and archives were acquired byOur Sunday Visitor and used to launchOSV News.
CNS was established in 1920 as theNational Catholic Welfare Council (NCWC) Press Department.[1] In the 1960s it became the National Catholic News Service; it later dropped "National" from its name in 1986 to indicate its intention to provide worldwide coverage.[2][3] It is now owned by theUSCCB, the NCWC's successor.
From 2004 to 2016, Tony Spence led CNS as its director andeditor-in-chief. He was removed in April 2016 after a number of Catholics criticized his posts onTwitter that favoredLGBT rights.[4][5]
In February 2021,Pope Francis in a meeting with CNS journalists to celebrate the 100th anniversary of CNS, praised CNS as "an invaluable contribution to theEnglish-speaking world".[6][7]
On 4 May 2022, Catholic News Service announced that it would cease its operations in the United States on 31 December 2022 due to a decision of the USCCB; CNS added that its Romebureau would continues to operate and "continue to report on Vatican and related international events".[8] The news agency's domestic distribution platform and archives were acquired byOur Sunday Visitor and used to launch the newOSV News.[9]
CNS describes itself as the primary source of national and global news that the USCatholic press reports. It is editorially independent and a financially self-sustaining division of theUS Conference of Catholic Bishops. It is based inWashington, DC,United States.[10][11]
The documentary service of CNS,Origins, "publishes texts from the Vatican, [P]ope, bishops, Congress, Senate, Supreme Court and church leaders around the world".[12][13]
Programs in the budget serving others include Catholic News Service (CNS) and Migration and Refugee Services (MRS). CNS, for example, is a wire service founded in 1920
Catholic News Service, created in 1920 by the American bishops, was and remains editorially independent, a financially self-sustaining division of the US ... The National Catholic Welfare Council Press department was the original service. ... The department was reorganized in the 1960s and the name changed to National Catholic News Service of NC News. In 1986, the name was again changed to Catholic News.
Catholic News Service, Washington, D.C. The oldest and largest news wire service specializing in reporting on religion
were carried by the Religious News Service, which omitted the crucial paragraph, and by National Catholic News Service, which included it. Two weeks later, however, Origins, the documentary service of National Catholic News Service, ran a ...
Others deserving mention by name include Catholic News Service, especially Thomas N. Lorsung [...] both factual and poetic; the staff ofOrigins, Catholic News Service's treasured documentary service; and the Catholic News Service library.
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