Research guides: Catholic News and Opinion: United States

United States - Newspapers

National Catholic Register.
Online for year 1844 only.
[Some full text available online: ncregister.com]
[For print version locations see UofT Catalogue]
A weekly newspaper with an editorial stance which is usually supportive of church authorities.
Indexed in CPLI.
National Catholic Reporter.
Current issues of the National Catholic Reporter.
Issues from 1964 in microform.
A weekly newspaper with an editorial stance which is often critical of church authorities.
Indexed in CPLI.
Our Sunday Visitor.
[For issues from 1986 - 2012 UofT Catalogue]
A weekly newspaper with an editorial stance which is usually supportive of church authorities. Indexed in CPLI.
The Catholic Worker.
1933 - 1961 located on St. Michael's 3rd Floor see UofT Catalogue
1972 - 2003 located at St. Michael's 1st Floor Circulation Desk (on microfilm) see UofT Catalogue
The tabloid-sized newspaper of the Catholic Worker Movement. Indexed in CPLI.
Catholic New World.
The newspaper of the Archdiocese of Chicago.
Catholic New York.
The newspaper of the Archdiocese of New York.
The Catholic Review.
The newspaper of the Archdiocese of Baltimore.
My Catholic Standard.
The newspaper of the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.

America.
[For print version locations see UofT Catalogue]
The leading American magazine of Catholic commentary covering religious, political, ethical, and social issues. Indexed in CPLI.
Commonweal.
Online issues from 1988 - present.
Print issues from 1924 - present. see UofT Catalogue]

Similar to America, but with an editorial stance which is slightly more critical of church authorities. Indexed in ATLA and in CPLI.
The Catholic World Report.
A monthly magazine with more news and less commentary than First Things and Crisis.
Crisis.
A monthly magazine similar to First Things. Indexed in CPLI.
First Things.
A monthly magazine which aims “to advance a religiously informed public philosophy for the ordering of society.” Indexed in ATLA.
Inside the Vatican.
A monthly magazine with more news and less commentary than First Things and Crisis.
Indexed in CPLI.
New Oxford Review.
[For print version locations see UofT Catalogue]
Significantly more aggressive than America or Commonweal. While historically it was considered “conservative”, it now readily attacks just about everybody. Indexed in CPLI.
StAR: Saint Austin Review.
Similar to First Things and Crisis. Formerly published in England, but now published in the United States and edited by Joseph Pearce.