Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Catholic News Service
Described in ''The Oxford Handbook of Religion and the American News Media'' (2012) as "the principal Catholic source of national news" and credited with helping to "professionalize" the Catholic press.https://books.google.com/books?id=MCCja27G0AAC&lpg=PA509&ots=JSQ7BeYMdD&dq=%22catholic%20news%20service%22%20%22catholic%20welfare%22&pg=PA510#v=onepage&q=%22catholic%20news%20service%22%20%22catholic%20welfare%22&f=false  The Catholic University of America archives page has some detailed historical information about the news agency under both its current name and its original one, the National Catholic Welfare Conference News Service.http://archives.lib.cua.edu/findingaid/ncnews.cfm  Here's a story from NPR about the recent removal of its editor.http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/04/15/474369314/top-editor-at-catholic-news-service-reportedly-pushed-out-over-pro-lgbt-tweets Other sources include https://books.google.com/books?id=fCaxCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA173&ots=PzRembnwGj&dq=%22catholic%20news%20service%22%20%22catholic%20welfare%22&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q=%22catholic%20news%20service%22%20&f=falsehttps://books.google.com/books?id=--wPAQAAIAAJ&lpg=PA427&ots=55jXmeAjPr&dq=%22catholic%20news%20service%22%20%22catholic%20welfare%22&pg=PA427#v=onepage&q=%22catholic%20news%20service%22%20%22catholic%20welfare%22&f=falsehttps://books.google.com/books?id=fCaxCgAAQBAJ&lpg=PA173&ots=PzRembnwGj&dq=%22catholic%20news%20service%22%20%22catholic%20welfare%22&pg=PA173#v=onepage&q=%22catholic%20news%20service%22%20&f=falsehttps://books.google.com/books?id=DXu6XL4g4agC&pg=PA215&dq=%22National+Catholic+Welfare+Conference%22+%22News+Service%22&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwiaxI_8l_7NAhVWzWMKHU2sApg4ChDoAQg1MAQ#v=onepage&q=%22National%20Catholic%20Welfare%20Conference%22%20%22News%20Service%22&f=falsehttps://books.google.com/books?id=JShnAQAAQBAJ&lpg=PA35&dq=%22National%20Catholic%20Welfare%20Conference%22%20%22News%20Service%22&pg=PA35#v=onepage&q=%22National%20Catholic%20Welfare%20Conference%22%20%22News%20Service%22&f=false Numerous citations of CNS by other reliable sources (see for example the results of a HighBeam search https://www.highbeam.com/Search?searchTerm=%22Catholic+News+Service%22) indicate it also passes #Newspapers, magazines and journals #4
— User:Arxiloxos, 00:08, 19 July 2016 (UTC)
Stance: keep
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