There’s a problem when God’s people don’t support Catholic media

AUSTRALIA
Catholic Leader

THE Catholic Church is not getting much good press of late.

The Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse has made the Church an easy target for the media and deservedly so.

Mother Teresa made headlines for a few days with her canonisation, but always paired with negative connotations regarding her legacy.

This is the state of mainstream press, but what does it look like in a Catholic media newsroom?

Working in Catholic media has its moments, but your efforts can be taken for granted.

The Archdiocese of Brisbane has its own media team, a Communications office and this newspaper, the latter of which is funded by people who pay each week to read our paper, and our advertisers.

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