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The world’s leading independent Catholic newspaper ‘has long punched above its weight.’
“Consider these words: Beacon of Justice, Community and Hope.”
That’s how the National Catholic Reporter’s Thomas C. Fox introduces this powerful new book in a brief video below. Fox hopes readers will recognize that this new book offers a rare commodity: hope in our troubled world.
“That’s a very rare commodity today,” Fox says.
In these pages, readers will discover the 60-year history of the National Catholic Reporter Publishing Company, sustaining NCR’s commitment to covering the nation, the world, the Catholic Church, and the Catholic faith. From the Second Vatican Council through the era of Pope Francis, this nonprofit has served as the leading independent Catholic news source reporting on the church’s involvement in war and peace, ecojustice, and cultural issues worldwide.
Just this month, NCR made national headlines for its media-industry coup of recruiting the Wall Street Journal’s three-time-Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist James V. Grimaldi to become NCR’s new top editor. In reporting this news, The Washington Post summarized NCR’s importance this way:
Founded in 1964, the nonprofit National Catholic Reporter is a rare outlet covering the Catholic community that has no corporate ties to the church—“which allows us to do straight news and allows us to report what we want to report,” NCR Publisher Joe Ferullo said. With a staff of 40, it has long punched above its weight. In 1985, it detailed child sex abuse by members of the clergy well before the Boston Globe’s lauded Spotlight team series. … By the time The Boston Globe succeeded in bringing the scandal to the attention of the entire world, the NCR had been doggedly covering the story for 17 years, often alone.
This is the story of 50 million Catholic Americans whose faith shapes our nation.
Lawrence Guillot’s history also is the story of one in five Americans who identify as Catholic, more than 50 million people whose lives have been shaped by the world’s largest Christian denomination.
Starting with reporting on the dramatic changes ushered in by Vatican II that affected every Catholic parish in the world, this book tells the story of courageous journalists who banded together to report on those often-turbulent waves of modernization. The story focuses on the huge challenges, some nearly fatal to the publishing company, that they had to overcome to keep the presses rolling and, today, to keep the NCR’s extensive online and multimedia offerings rolling onto the internet.
And, in telling that story, this book offers a history of the Catholic Church as it passed through one of the most vibrant and consequential periods in its history and continues to serve its nearly 1.4-billion baptized members today.
Video 1: An overview of the new book—
Video 2: Thomas C. Fox on why this story matters so much now—
Video 3: Lawrence B. Guillot on ‘from the very beginning’ —
Video 4: BIll Mitchell on why the book is perfect for students—
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Get your copy now
Visit the book’s Amazon page. The book is available in hardcover, paperback and a Kindle version as well via Amazon. The book also is sold by Barnes & Noble and booksellers worldwide. That global list includes the Australian-based Booktopia, Sweden’s Akademibokhandeln, and Waterstones in the UK.
