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GEORGIA BULLETIN, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1968 9
Dispute Spurs 2
Papers To Issue
Policy Statements
Spurred by recent controversies which have arisen in the Church in
this country two Catholic newspapers have published policy
statements explaining how they handle news.
The Intermountain Catholic Register of the Salt Lake City, Utah,
diocese in its Nov. 15 issue published a statement by Father
Lawrence F. Sweeney, editor. The Monitor, newspaper of the San
Francisco archdiocese and the Santa Rosa, Calif., diocese, published
(Nov. 7) a column labeled “How to Read This Newspaper.”
“The press these days, and
many of the clergy and laity
along with it, think that the
purpose of the press is to expose
all the controversial happenings
that occur, whether they be
within or without the Church,”
Father Sweeney wrote,
“Those who hold such a stance
forget that to report events and
happenings out of context in the
total life of the Church is an
indirect form of editorializing. To
stress the events that reflect great
differences of opinion and
procedure again and again is to
editorialize. This indirect form of
editorializing, whether it be
conservative or liberal, is a form
of manipulation, not of
rqborting. One could go so far as
to say it is a form of perversion,”
the statement asserted.
Father Sweeney singled out for
comment two controversies—the
condemnation by Bishop Charles
H. Helmsing of Kansas City-St.
Joseph, Mo., of the National
Catholic Reporter, and the
disputes between priests and their
bishops in Washington, D.C., and
San Antonio, Tex.
The NCR has done “much
good since its inception several
years ago,” Father Sweeney
wrote, but “even its former
president of the board who
resigned several weeks ago, stated
it has too strong a tendency to
play up those things that divide.”
Father Sweeney contended
“for the Catholic press to play up
the disputes within the Church, is
not to present a balanced picture
of the Church and thus to fail to
be genuinely truthful and
charitable. Also, to present a
limited picture of a situation is
not fair.”
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“Now it seems to me that this
is the situation in which the NCR
finds itself. There are other
Catholic papers and periodicals in
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“How to Read This Newspaper.”
Principal among the suggestions
were:
“The Monitor recognizes its
obligation to form as well as to
inform, to inspire and to instruct
in the teaching of the Catholic
faith.
“If a newspaper is,.to present
the news, it will- on many
occasions present news stories of
events and opinions, with which
various readers will strongly
disagree. Nevertheless, the
newspaper should present all the
significant news, judging what is
significant to the best of its
ability.
“The only way one can learn
the editorial position of the
Monitor is to read the column
specifically headed
‘Editorial’...The only part of the
newspaper which is an official
expression will be found in the
column headed ‘Official.’
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