That’s if I drank the stuff…
As a Catholic journalist, in addition to the National Catholic Register, I maintain a set of favorite links that I depend on daily for catching up on world and Catholic news. No doubt, they’re the very same sites that you visit on a frequent basis – places like the Catholic News Agency, the USCCB’s Catholic News Service, and PewSitter.com, just to name a couple examples.
Amid the many sites that I look at daily, I have a new favorite. It’s Britain’s Catholic Herald.
The Herald’s editor, Luke Coppen, puts together a concise “Morning Catholic Must Reads” that’s exactly the kind of thing I look for. It highlights some of the day’s most important global Catholic stories in a brief yet thorough way. There’s no huge list of links to pour through. He provides tidy little summaries, and they are precisely the kinds of stories that I find on my own or end up reading via other news sites. It’s a valuable service Coppen provides – and all from that friendly island nation across the Atlantic.
Anytime I think about criticizing the Internet, I think of the service that such sites provide in terms of distilling the news. For a journalist, or a lay person, short on time, it just doesn’t get any better.
If you have some favorite Catholic news aggregation sites, list them below in the comment section. I’m always looking for something new.
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How could you miss www.newdvent.org? Or, for that matter, www.osvdailytake.com?
John,
My post wasn’t meant to be an exhaustive list - that’s what I’m depending on the comments for - but simply a starting point for a conversation about what sites people are using daily for their Catholic news. Of course, NewAdvent and OSV would be on the big list.
Sorry, should have added a “:)”
CatholicMaine.com is a new kid on the block, but it could not come at better time. Maine is a very secular state, in very secular New England just coming off the heals of a very bitter same-sex “marriage” battle. That battle shed a bright light on the divisions within the Church. Along with the new Catholic radio station (WXTP, 106.7 Portland), it’s nice to have a couple of media outlets that actually support Church teachings.
Agreed! I was thrilled to have come across this a few months ago. Coppen compiles a number of stories that I don’t come across on my Twitter feed of Catholic journalists and news services. And, unlike even the Vatican Information Service, they’re always published long before I wake up every morning in Eastern Time.
I read Zenit.org
I like the American Papist Blog at CatholicVoteAction.org, in particular the “papist picture of the day”. There’s always something fun and joyfully humorous on there.
the deacon’s bench and the anchoress is on the top of my list.
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