St. Joseph Religious Education Program at 242 Wall Street, Kingston, NY 12401 US - Mission Statement

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"There exists within human society a right to information about affairs which affect men individually and collectively and according to the circumstances of each !"
Fathers of the Second Vatican Council

Our Mission
The mission of the Catholic Church is to spread the Gospel through contemporary means of communication.

Our mission is to perform this task by reporting the news which affects Catholics in their everyday lives.

Some of that news is good and some is bad, but it is what readers need to know in order to work for salvation. They need to know that there are saints in the making in the Church today and they need to know that there are sinners too.

Our mission is to report fully, fairly and freely about the involvement of the Church in the world today.

We also agree with the council document when it continues, ``The proper exercise of this right demands that the matter communicated always be true, and as complete as charity and justice allow.''

To pursue this mission, to perform this ministry, CNS collaborates with other Catholic journalists in United States diocesan newspapers and with others around the world.

To look at our mission another way, we must reflect the obligations reflected in our very name.

-- We must be Catholic, reporting on the works of the Church in the modern world.

-- We must cover the news, which ultimately is the Good News of Salvation.

-- We must be of service to the Church by engaging fully in the essential ministry of communication.

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