“Beloved brethren: In the early days of the new year, a new messenger of Catholic truth, a new advocate and defender of your holy faith, appeals to you for a cordial welcome to your homes, for an earnest and loyal support in the purposes it holds in view, in the work to which it consecrates itself. . . .”
With those words, St. Paul’s first archbishop, John Ireland, bestowed his blessing on The Catholic Bulletin, The Catholic Spirit’s predecessor, in its inaugural Jan. 7, 1911, edition.
So began a journalistic tradition that has endured a century.
