Secular foundation grants $2.3 mil to Nat Cathc Reporter to provide publicity for women religious

Catholic Culture ^ | August 23, 2013 | Diogenes

[NYer]

The Conrad Hilton Foundation has awarded a $2.3 million grant to the National Catholic Reporter to establish as “global sisters’ net,” providing “greater voice to countless Catholic sisters around the globe.”

The grant to the National Catholic Reporter-- a newspaper with a long history of dissent from Catholic teaching—comes at a time when women religious in the United States are under Vatican scrutiny. Annette Lomont, the chairman of the board for the Reporter, said: “We’ve been standing with sisters from the beginning, and I consider the grant encouragement to go on telling their stories.”

The Reporter explained that the grant would be used to set up a network of journalists who will write about the work of women religious, and to help the sister develop their own publicity plans.

In January Bishop Robert Finn of Kansas City, Missouri—the diocese in which the newspaper is located—said that the National Catholic Reporter should not identify itself as a “Catholic” publication. Bishop Finn pointed out that in 1968 his predecessor, Bishop Charles Helmsing, had ordered the editors of the Reporter to remove the word “Catholic” from the title of the publication. The editors refused.

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• NCR receives Hilton Foundation grant for coverage of sisters (National Catholic Reporter)

• National Catholic Reporter's $2.3 million grant to cover religious sisters (CNA)

• Bishop confirms National Catholic Reporter is not a 'Catholic' publication (CWN, 1/25)

[NYer]

The Reporter explained that the grant would be used to set up a network of journalists who will write about the work of women religious, and to help the sister develop their own publicity plans.

I guess it's important to support this: Nun Volunteering as Abortion Clinic Escort in Illinois

[stanne]

No surprise. This newspaper, the National Catholic Reporter, is like all liberals who call themselves Catholic and virulently agenda driven- out to change a 20000 year old religion without even knowing its tenets

The National Catholic Register is the paper of record

[Oratam]

“Be my guest!”

[Morgana]

” Nun Volunteering as Abortion Clinic Escort in Illinois”

Shame on her.

[LadyDoc]

they don’t need “publicity plans”: they need retirement plans. Most of the PC orders have an average age of 70...

[A.A. Cunningham]

FatherZ would have given the sisters plenty of free publicity if they'd only have given him credentials for the Woodstock dissentfest at Caribe Royale.

[Ann Archy]

She has brought DAMNATION on herself.