{{Short description|Catholic newspaper based in Florida}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Infobox newspaper | name = Florida Catholic | image = Florida Catholic Nov. 20, 2007.jpg | image_size = 250px | caption = The ''Florida Catholic'' newspaper, Miami Archdiocese edition | type = Orlando, Palm Beach and Venice dioceses editions: 24 times a year. Miami Archdiocese: 12 times a year newspaper | format = | founded = 1939<ref>[http://poynter.org/resource/public/20040930_150014_27459.pdf Poynter.org] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080312214141/http://poynter.org/resource/public/20040930_150014_27459.pdf |date=2008-03-12 }} accessed March 14, 2008</ref> | ceased_publication = | price = $26 per year | owners = Roman Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Miami | publisher = Bishop Gerald Barbarito of Palm Beach; Bishop John Gerard Noonan of Orlando; Bishop Frank Joseph Dewane of Venice | editor = | chief_editor = | associate_editor = | staff_writers = | language = English | political_position = | circulation = | headquarters = Orlando, Florida | ISSN = 0746-4584 | website = [http://www.thefloridacatholic.org/ www.thefloridacatholic.org] }} The '''''Florida Catholic''''' is the official newspaper for four of the seven dioceses in the Catholic Ecclesiastical Province of Miami. Based in Orlando, Florida, the newspaper publishes 48digital issues a year in three dioceses; these editions include local, state, national and International Catholic news. The Miami Archdiocese and the Palm Beach Diocese editions are also published/printed once a month with local content.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.catholicstandard.org/images/national.pdf |title=National list |website=catholicstandard.org |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20040329091003/http://www.catholicstandard.org/images/national.pdf|access-date=September 27, 2007|archive-date= 2004-03-29}}</ref>

Other articles discuss faith issues and highlight specific schools, ministries or parish activities. The bishop of each Florida diocese offers a personal message to subscribers in their diocese on current events or faith subjects. A weekly online version of the newspaper (e-edition) offers the most recent edition as well as an archive of past articles and bishops' messages.<ref>{{cite web | title =US Catholic Newspapers | url =http://www.catholicnewspapers.com/#Florida | access-date = 2007-08-16 }}</ref>

==History== The paper was first published as a weekly in Miami in 1939. It moved to St. Augustine in 1942. It moved to Orlando about 1952.<ref>[http://www.rc.net/philadelphia/pahrc/newspapers.html Newspapers] accessed March 14, 2008 {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080803231124/http://www.rc.net/philadelphia/pahrc/newspapers.html |date=August 3, 2008 }}</ref> In 1958, it was replaced in the Miami Archdiocese by ''The Voice'', for the next 32 years.<ref name="fc090102">{{cite book |title = The Florida Catholic Timeline | publisher = The Florida Catholic | date = January 2–16, 2009}}</ref>

In 1959, the paper moved to the Orlando suburb of Winter Park.<ref name="fc090102"/>

In 1972, the paper changed its format from broadsheet to tabloid.<ref name="fc090102"/>

In 1984, the Diocese of Pensacola-Tallahassee began publishing their own version of the newspaper.<ref name="fc090102"/>

In 1990, the ''Florida Catholic'' absorbed ''The Voice'' published by the Archdiocese of Miami and began serving that area. The addition of Miami gave the paper a circulation of 140,000, serving six out of the seven dioceses in the state.<ref>[http://www.library.nd.edu/current_periodicals/catholic.shtml Non-current Catholic newspapers] accessed March 14, 2008</ref>

In 1993, specific local sections were generated for each diocese.<ref name="fc090102"/>

In 2003, it was discovered that a bookkeeper had embezzled money totaling a large sum over decades. The bookkeeper was charged with grand theft and the editor felt obliged to resign.<ref name=orlemb>[http://www.accessmylibrary.com/coms2/summary_0286-8616706_ITM Orlando Sentinel] accessed March 14, 2008</ref> This resulted in an abbreviated publishing schedule for several years until losses could be recouped.

In 2004, the Catholic Press Association selected the paper to receive the Bishop John England Award for First Amendment rights, freedom of the press and/or freedom of religion.<ref name="fc090102"/>

In 2008, the paper was published for the final time in the St. Petersburg Diocese. It began production of a new publication for that diocese, ''Gathered, Nourished, Sent''.<ref name="fc090102"/>

In 2012, the paper added a digital e-Edition subscription which combines content from three dioceses (Orlando, Palm Beach and Venice), and began a social media presence on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, and YouTube.<ref name="fc090102"/>

==Associate Publisher== #Father Vincent Smith ?-1965<ref name="fc090102"/> #Father David Page 1965-1990<ref>{{cite book | author = Tomaselli |title = Priests will be honored at chrism Mass | publisher = Florida Catholic | date = March 14–20, 2008}}</ref> #Henry Libersat 1990-1999<ref>[http://www.flacathconf.org/Publications/Archives/Tahopinions/1999/Cajn99cl.htm Florida Catholic Conference] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080511211534/http://www.flacathconf.org/Publications/Archives/Tahopinions/1999/Cajn99cl.htm |date=2008-05-11 }} accessed March 14, 2008</ref> #Steven Paradis 1999-2003<ref name="orlemb"/> #Christopher Gunty 2003–2008 #Denise O'Toole Kelly 2008-2009 <ref>Hard to verify. Not known if there was intervening editor. Title apparently changed.</ref> #Mary St. Pierre 2009–2010 #Ann Borowski-Slade 2008–Present

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== External links == *[http://www.thefloridacatholic.org ''Florida Catholic'' official website] *[http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00079916 ''Florida Catholic''] historical issues freely available through the Florida Digital Newspaper Library

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