Greetings from Baltimore, home to America’s first Catholic cathedral and first Catholic diocese, and welcome to The Catholic Observer, your independent source of news and views on the Church. I’m Gary Gately, the newsletter’s founder and editor, and I’m so glad you stopped by and hope you’ll consider a free or paid subscription to the newsletter, or, if you’ve already subscribed, consider sharing it with others. I’m a lifelong Catholic and award-winning journalist who has written for The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Guardian, the National Catholic Reporter, America: The Jesuit Review, Newsweek, The Baltimore Sun, The Boston Globe, the Center for Public Integrity, CNBC.com and United Press International.
The Catholic Observer delivers a rich mix of breaking news, features, profiles and in-depth pieces that provide perspective on the news, along with investigative stories. The newsletter also features opinion pieces, book and movie reviews and aggregation highlighting coverage worth reading in other publications.
Some of the principles that guide coverage:
Providing an inclusive view of Catholicism, promoting diversity and the dignity of all God’s people and ecumenism among faiths
Giving voice to the voiceless, the marginalized, the impoverished, the hungry, the homeless, the refugees, the migrants, the prodigals
Viewing the Church through the prism of political, social and economic forces that help shape it, and which to some degree it helps shape, and holding Church leaders accountable through fearless, but always fair, reporting
I’d love to hear from you. If you spot an error or have suggestions, news tips or interest in pitching a reported article or submitting a first-person piece, please email Gary Gately.
Thanks again for visiting.
Gary Gately
