American Catholic News reports the public life of the United States in the light of the Catholic intellectual and moral tradition.

We are a digital newspaper for Catholics who take both their faith and their citizenship seriously. Our premise is simple: the questions facing American life — about work and the economy, family and culture, technology, law, and the common good — are not merely political questions. They are moral ones, and the Church has thought about them for two thousand years. We report the news with that tradition in view.

What we cover

The life of the Church in the United States and Rome; the bishops and the institutions of American Catholicism; and the public questions where faith meets civic life — family and culture, work and the economy, technology, and the law. We cover these as news, with the same standards of accuracy and fairness any serious newspaper owes its readers.

How we work

We report facts and attribute them to their sources. We are faithful to the teaching of the Church, but we are not the partisan of any party or faction; Catholic Social Teaching does not map onto the platform of a campaign, and we do not pretend it does. We aim to be accurate before we are fast, and to take the long view in a media culture that rarely does.

The tradition we draw on

Our reporting rests on the body of teaching the Church calls her social doctrine — the dignity of the human person, the common good, subsidiarity, solidarity, and the universal destination of goods. Readers who wish to go to the sources will find the encyclicals and explainers we rely on gathered in our Documents library.

Editorial questions, news tips, and corrections may be sent to editor@americancatholicnews.com.