Living Light catechetical journal to cease publication

Published: 2004-05-14

WASHINGTON (CNS) -- The Living Light, a quarterly catechetical journal published by the U.S. bishops' Department of Education, will end publication with its summer issue after a 40-year run. The Living Light was established in 1964 by the National Center for the Confraternity of Christian Doctrine of the National Catholic Welfare Conference, forerunner to today's U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. In 1966, it became a publication of the education department. Over the years, Our Sunday Visitor, William H. Sadlier Inc. and Mercer University Press produced and distributed The Living Light. For the last decade, USCCB Publishing had produced it and distributed it. The journal was projected to lose $44,000 in the coming year. "The decision to close the journal is strictly a financial one. We simply could no longer underwrite the journal's expense," said Dominican Sister Glenn Anne McPhee, USCCB secretary of education, in a statement.

Copyright (c) 2004 Catholic News Service /U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. The CNS news report may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or otherwise distributed, including but not limited to such means as framing or any other digital copying or distribution method, in whole or in part without the prior written authority of Catholic News Service .