The Catholic Bulletin (St. Paul, Minn.)
Historic newspapers carry the language, views and graphic reporting of their time, including racist content. They are shown to teen and adult profiles.
626 issues from 1911 to 1922, published in Saint Paul, Minnesota, digitised for Chronicling America.
The Catholic Bulletin of the Archdiocese of St. Paul, Minnesota was established by Archbishop John Ireland on January 7, 1911 as an 8-page weekly, with an initial circulation of 2,500. Its first editor was Father James Reardon. The diocese (it was elevated to archdiocese in 1888) had been established in 1850 and had previously issued a publication titled Northwestern Chronicle between 1866 and 1900, when it sold that newspaper to a publisher in Milwaukee.
The Catholic Bulletin was intended to be an organ of and for the entire archdiocese. According to Father Reardon, the editor of the paper was given the authority to shape the content of the publication without having to seek the approval of the Archbishop, who did not want the newspaper to be merely a platform for the Archbishop’s views and teachings. In the 1950s Reardon recalled, “The only instruction to the editor was to publish an interesting, well-written and well-edited Catholic newspaper, non-political and non-controversial, which did not necessarily reflect the Archbishop’s views on any subject. With the exception of what he himself wrote, he never saw, or asked to see, a line of any editorial or article that appeared in The Catholic Bulletin until it came from the press.”
During the first decade of its existence, the Catholic Bulletin featured news relevant to Catholics in Minnesota, North and South Dakota, national Catholic news, and reports of Catholic events and developments in Europe. The paper also included…
- Genres
- News
- Published in
- Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States
- Language
- English
- Collection
- Chronicling America
- Licence or status
- None stated by the archive
- Rights
- The Library of Congress believes that the newspapers in Chronicling America are in the public domain or have no known copyright restrictions. Newspapers published in the United States more than 95 years ago are in the public domain in their entirety.
- Credit
- Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers, Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities
- Who can read it
- Teens profiles and older (placed by Invisible Network from what the archive says; archives give no ratings)
- Archive
- Library of Congress