Catholic Family News

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Catholic Family News
Recent typical front pages.
Type	Monthly newspaper
Format	tabloid

Owner	Catholic Family Ministries, Inc.
Publisher	Nicholas Gruner
Editor	John Vennari
Founded	1993
Political allegiance	Conservative (Neo-traditional) Catholic
Language	English
Price	$2.50 U.S. $3.50 Canada £2.00 UK
Headquarters	P.O. Box 694 Niagara Falls, ON L2E 6V5
ISSN	1054-5682

Website: cnews.org

Catholic Family News (ISSN:1054-5682) is a religious newspaper printed in Canada and distributed monthly from the U.S. city of Niagara Falls, New York, and bears the motto "Promoting Catholic Truth in a Pluralistic Society" on its masthead. John Vennari, Traditionalist Catholic activist and author, is its current editor. The paper is privately owned by Catholic Family Ministries Inc., with no official affiliation with the Society of St. Pius X or any other organization, but is sympathetic in its coverage of the Society, whose Angelus Press is an advertiser, and maintains an editorial policy in opposition to the sedevacantist position and those who question many of the post-Vatican II sacraments, including Holy Orders. The periodical's content includes, in addition to news and commentary consistent with its editorial viewpoint in support of the SSPX (an opposition to the changes to liturgy brought about by Vatican II, but not to other sacraments such as Holy Orders), devotional materials, and articles on historic Roman Catholic teachings and personages. Regular monthly features include "The Popes speak," reprints of encyclicals and other papal documents and a monthly column by Joe Sobran.

[edit] Controversies and Criticism

The Southern Poverty Law Center lists the newspaper as well as their publisher as a hate group due to anti-semitic and homophobic remarks by Vennari as well as the hiring of Sobran who was fired by the National Review for writing anti-semitic articles.^[1]