The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1922-12-02
IRISH OMMENDATIoN OF NJ. C..
w. C. NEWS SERVICE.
Ecclesiastical Record Tells About
Workings Of Our Press
Department.
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An appreciation of the work of the
N. C. w. c. News Service is printed
in the October issue Of the Irish Ec-
clesiastical Record, the official organ
of the Catholic Church in Ireland, un-
der the heading THE N. c. w. G.
Press Agency" The article which is
written by the Rev. T. A. Murphy,
C. SS. r., praises the activities of the
news service in America and recon-
mends that Irish Catholic papers take
advantage of the service or develop
similar organization of their own.
Among the news items" the article
reads in part, supplied by such we'll
known press agencies as Reuters or
the Associated Press, some papers
nowadays carry paragraphs with the
superscription N. C. w. C. News Serv-
ice. Written in full, the superscrip-
tion reads, The National Catholic
Welfare Council News Service This
new press agency has developed rap
idly, wields great power at present,
and gives promise of untold influence
for good in the future. 1t owes its
origin to the fact that many American
Catholics felt the necessity of having
current events of Catholic interest
sympathetically and accurately de-
scribed, and not left to the mercy of
press agents who have no sympathy
with the Church or are Gas often hap
pens) clearly prejudiced against it.
"The new agency was agreed upon
in September, 1919, and came into full
working operation in April, 1920. In
less than a year and a half after its
inception it was supplying news to
seventy-six publications. AS the
agency is only one of the many actiy-
tiles of the Catholic Welfare Council
of the United States, it is under the
control Of the Bishops. DR.. Louis s..
Walsh, Bishop of Portland, Maine, is
it's chairman, and valuable assistance
has been rendered to it by Father J. ].
Burke, G. S. p, general secretary Of
the Welfare Council.
French Churchman's Elevation.
"tAt Notre Dame, Paris, Mgr. Bau-
drillart, Rector of the Catholic Insti-
tute, was consecrated titular Bishop
of Nimeria. Cardinals Dubois and
Lucon and Mgr. Ferretti, the Papal
Nuncio, were present Reuter-
This example is given just to show
the advantages which Catholic news
agency possesses in supplying Catho-
lie news. Its agents have a better un.
derstanding of the events, and will
weigh them better. They are on their
guard against false anti Catholic news
and calumny. and far from giving
these circulation, they will circulate
an answer to them If other writer's
publish them.
"It has often been urged by Irish
Irelanders that Irishmen feed their in.
tellects too exclusively on literature
that comes from English sources; that
Anglicization cut off Ireland to great
extent from the currents Of European
thought. The truth Of this position
cannot well be denied. Now come our
fellow-C Catholics in America offering
Catholic news and views direct from
America and from Europe, through
American channels. Let us hope that
our enterprising journalists In Ireland
will profit by the offer. W
There are some points which the
men behind the Catholic Press move
iment In America lay stress upon from