Thursday, February 2, 2012
CHICAGO (CNS) -- Catholic Press Month, celebrated in February, "comes at a particularly critical moment" this year, said Greg Erlandson, president of the Catholic Press Association of the United States and Canada.The nation's Catholic bishops "have made clear their concern with recent government regulations and the threat such regulations pose to religious liberty," said Erlandson, president and publisher of Our Sunday Visitor in Huntington, Ind.The Catholic press provides the vehicle for the bishops' message to reach Catholics, he said in a statement released by the Chicago-based pres