CNA<\/a>).- The editor of the National Catholic Reporter responded to Bishop Robert Finn's warning that the publication undermines the faith by saying that paper confidently describes itself as Catholic.<\/p>\n\t\u201cNCR is proud to call itself a Catholic publication. We report and comment on church matters, including official teachings,\u201d Thomas Fox wrote Jan. 27 on the paper's website.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cWe also report and comment on those who call into question some of these official teachings,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
\tIn a Jan. 25 column for his diocesan paper, \u201cThe Catholic Key,\u201d Bishop Finn wrote that \u201cin light of the number of recent expressions of concern, I have a responsibility as the local bishop to instruct the Faithful about the problematic nature of this media source which bears the name 'Catholic.'\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe National Catholic Reporter is based in Bishop Finn's Diocese of Kansas City-Saint Joseph. As the local bishop, he noted his responsibility to \u201ccall the media to fidelity in the use of means of social communications.\u201d
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\n\tIn his column, the bishop did not take issue with the paper's reporting, but with its editorial stances.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cIn the last months I have been deluged with emails and other correspondence from Catholics concerned about the editorial stances of the Reporter: officially condemning Church teaching on the ordination of women, insistent undermining of Church teaching on artificial contraception and sexual morality in general, lionizing dissident theologies while rejecting established Magisterial teaching, and a litany of other issues.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tFor example, a Dec. 3, 2012 editorial appeared on the Reporter's site saying that \u201cCatholic women who have discerned a call to the priesthood and have had that call affirmed by the community should be ordained in the Roman Catholic church.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThat editorial noted John Paul II's 1994 apostolic constitution, requiring definitive assent, that the Church has no authority to ordain women to the priesthood. The editorial stance noted, and disregarded, the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith's decision that the teaching requires definitive assent and is part of the deposit of faith.<\/p>\n
\tThe Reporter was established in the Kansas City-Saint Joseph diocese in 1964. Bishop Finn noted that four years later, in 1968, \u201cBishop Charles Helmsing\u2026issued a condemnation of the National Catholic Reporter and asked the publishers to remove the name 'Catholic' from their title \u2013 to no avail.\u201d<\/p>\n
\t\u201cFrom my perspective, NCR\u2019s positions against authentic Church teaching and leadership have not changed trajectory in the intervening decades.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tCanon 216 of the Church's Code of Canon Law says that while the Christian faithful may promote or sustain their own apostolates, \u201cNevertheless, no undertaking is to claim the name Catholic without the consent of competent ecclesiastical authority.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tThe Reporter's refusal to remove \u201cCatholic\u201d from their title contrasts with the attitude of other media organizations. In December 2011 Michael Voris' online network \u201cReal Catholic TV\u201d was requested by the Archdiocese of Detroit to remove \u201cCatholic\u201d from its name.<\/p>\n
\tShortly thereafter, in June 2012, Voris changed the name to \u201cChurchMilitant.TV,\u201d complying with the request of the archdiocese where the website's content is produced.<\/p>\n
\tFox backed up the Reporter's claim to the title \u201cCatholic\u201d by saying that \u201cMeanwhile, we belong to the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops\u2019 sanctioned Catholic Press Association.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tWhen it was pointed out that Catholic Press Association is not sanctioned by the U.S. bishops' conference, an editor's note was added to Fox's piece explaining that the sentence has been changed to \u201cbetter reflect\u201d the truth.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cMeanwhile, we are a part of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada, an independent membership association comprised of Catholic media organizations and individuals,\u201d it now reads.<\/p>\n
\tThe Catholic Press Association's code of fair practices state that the mission of an \u201cauthentically Catholic press is to inform and to form public opinion in conformity with the Truth and the pursuit of truth.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tFox also supported his publication's Catholic status by pointing out that Bishop Finn's predecessor, Bishop Raymond Boland, interacted positively with the paper on two occasions.<\/p>\n
\t\u201cOnce, Boland came to our Kansas City, Mo., office and blessed our building as we consulted with him about use of new emerging media technologies. Later, Boland spoke at NCR's 40th anniversary ceremony in Washington, D.C.\u201d<\/p>\n
\tIn his Jan. 25 column, Bishop Finn's concluded his concerns with the paper by saying, \u201cWhile I remain open to substantive and respectful discussion with the legitimate representatives of NCR, I find that my ability to influence the National Catholic Reporter toward fidelity to the Church seems limited to the supernatural level. For this we pray: St. Francis DeSales, intercede for us.\u201d<\/p>\n
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