Kansas City-Based National Catholic Reports Suffers Criticism Amid Layoffs

A local progressive faith community publication has recently endured harsh times amid the new media landscape  . . .

Not everyone is a fan of this group and it's important to note how many traditional Catholics regard the publication along with its local history . . . Check-it:  

Many faithful Catholics—including the bishops who have unsuccessfully attempted to stop what they viewed as the heretical views published at NCR—suggest that the publication has never really understood the teachings and the culture of the Catholic Church. Instead, the publication has spent much of its time trying to change those teachings by changing the culture from one of faithfulness to one of dissent. 

The presiding bishop of Kansas City at the time of NCR’s founding, Bishop Charles Helmsing— who initially authorized NCR’s existence—condemned the paper in 1968, demanding it remove the word “Catholic” from its name. Helmsing claimed that NCR had a “policy of crusading against the Church’s teachings” and considered it a “poisonous character.” 

Decades later, in 2013, Kansas City/St. Joseph’s Bishop Robert Finn echoed Bishop Helmsing’s concerns, writing that NCR “undermines Church teachings and lionizes dissident theologies.” Though NCR has been called on to remove the word “Catholic” from its title, the recalcitrant editors of the publication have, instead, often mocked the bishops themselves. 

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