About This Issue

] About This Issue I n light of this issue, it is appropriate to remind our readers of the Summer 2003 issue on the theme of Catholic publishing which had only one article on an editor and her newspaper: “Dorothy Day and the Early Years of the Catholic Worker. . .” (by Sheila Webb). There was an article on a monthly periodical, Catholic Digest (by Anne Klejment). Other articles were on publishing houses: “Sheed and Ward” (by Mary Jo Weaver); “Herder and Herder and Beyond” (by Justus George Lawler); Philip J. Scharper, a well-known editor and a founder of Orbis Books (by Stephen Bede Scharper); and the Liturgical Press (by Jerome M. Hall, S.J.). The current issue captures the contributions of seven distinctive editors of lively diocesan newspapers and an editor of a unique national newspaper, The American Catholic Tribune. Except for three priest-editors featured in one article, the five other editors were laymen; all seven expressed strong views on the controversies of the times ranging from such national issues as Americanism and the ordeals of race to anticommunism and the Second Vatican Council. We are very grateful to the contributors to this issue. Robert Anello, priest member of the Missionary Society of the Holy Apostles, is a graduate student of American Catholic History at The Catholic University of America. Steven M. Avella, a priest of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, is professor of History at Marquette University, Jeffrey M. Burns is archivist of the Archdiocese of San Francisco, teaches American Catholic History at the Franciscan School of Theology in Berkeley, and is Director of the Academy of American Franciscan History. Joseph Lackner, S.M., is Director of developing regions for the American Province of the Society of Mary. Mark Raphael, a priest of the Archdiocese of New Orleans, is a graduate student in American Catholic History at The Catholic University of America. Christopher J. Kauffman ...