UNITED STATES
National Catholic Reporter
Dennis Coday | Apr. 14, 2016
WASHINGTON
Tony Spence, director and editor-in-chief of Catholic News Service since 2004, unexpectedly resigned from that position Wednesday at the request of a U.S. bishops’ conference official.
In recent days Spence had been attacked by conservative Catholic blogs for tweets he had posted about controversial religious freedom bills in North Carolina and Georgia. These sites accused Spence of “promoting the LGBT agenda.”
“The far right blogsphere and their troops started coming after me again and it was too much for the USCCB,” Spence told NCR in an interview Thursday.
“The secretary general [of the U.S. bishops’ conference] asked for my resignation, because the conference had lost confidence in my ability to lead CNS,” Spence told NCR.
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