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''The Catholic Telegraph'' is a monthly newspaper published by the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cincinnati primarily for its 500,000 congregants. The archdiocese covers 19 counties in Ohio, including the Cincinnati and Dayton metropolitan areas. The ''Telegraph'' has published continuously since 1831, except for a brief period in 1832,〔 making it the first diocesan newspaper and second oldest Catholic newspaper in the United States. It published weekly until September 2011, when it became a monthly publication.〔 ==History== The ''Telegraph'' was established on October 22, 1831, by Bishop Edward Fenwick, O.P., the Archdiocese's first bishop. Its first editor put the paper on a short hiatus the next fall to care for victims of a cholera outbreak.〔 The paper's use of the word "telegraph" predated the invention of the communication device by over a decade. As one of the first Catholic newspapers in the nation, the ''Telegraph'' was sold in cities throughout the country's middle section, including Louisville, Kentucky, Baltimore, Maryland, Washington, D.C., St. Louis, Missouri, and Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. From 1849–1861, ''The Catholic Telegraph and Advocate'' also served as the Diocese of Louisville's official newspaper. Early in the episcopal reign of John Baptist Purcell, the ''Telegraph'' fell into significant financial difficulties. As its closure appeared imminent, large numbers of common Catholics formed the Roman Catholic Society for the Diffusion of Knowledge, with its primary purpose being the rescue of the ''Telegraph''. Their goal being accomplished, the Society's success became famous throughout the American Catholic Church, and a similar organization, patterned after the one in Cincinnati, was established in the Archdiocese of Baltimore.〔McCann, Mary Agnes. "(The Most Reverend John Baptist Purcell, D.D., Archbishop of Cincinnati (1800-1883) ). ''Catholic Historical Review'' 6 (1920): 172-199.〕 From 1837 to 1907, the ''Telegraph'' had a German-language sister publication, known as ''Der Wahrheitsfreund''. It was the country's first Catholic periodical published in German.〔 During the Civil War, the ''Telegraph'' took a difficult position on the questions of slavery and union. Under Archbishop Purcell, who emphasized the "prudential motives" that made the abolition of slavery inadvisable, the ''Telegraph'' stridently opposed slavery, secession, and initially abolition. Its antislavery stance stood in stark contrast to other Catholic newspapers, particularly the ''New York Freeman's Journal''. In an editorial, the ''Telegraph'' condemned the New Orleans Catholic newspaper, ''Le Propagateur Catholique'', for running an advertisement about a ''mulatre'' who was available for rent or sale.〔 The ''Telegraph'' opined that "It is not necessary to be an abolitionist... to condemn a practice so repugnant to Catholic feeling." In April 1861, the month the Civil War started, the paper continued to urge accommodation with the slave states so strongly that an abolitionist, Unionist bishop condemned its editorial stance as "aid of treason."〔 However, in 1863, it became the first prominent Catholic newspaper to advocate emancipation.〔 In 1937, the ''Telegraph'' renamed itself ''The Catholic Telegraph Register'' and joined the Denver-based Register System of Newspapers, which would later become the ''National Catholic Register''. In 1961, the Archdiocese of Cincinnati assumed control of the ''Telegraph''.〔 The ''Telegraph'' switched from a broadsheet format to a tabloid format in the 2000s.〔 It launched a new website and Twitter account in March 2009. The paper switched from weekly to monthly publication in September 2011.〔 Beginning with its October 2013 issue, it "move() towards a less 'newsy' mode". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Catholic Telegraph」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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