Moscow Archdiocese launches monthly paper to replace closed weekly

Published: 2008-04-29

OXFORD, England (CNS) -- The Moscow-based Catholic Archdiocese of the Mother of God has launched a monthly newspaper to replace its award-winning weekly that closed Christmas Day. Father Igor Kovalevsky, secretary-general of the Russian bishops' conference, said Katolichesky Viestnik-Svet Evanglia (Catholic News-Light of the Gospel) is only for the archdiocese "and we don't know how it will be received." "It's been created as part of a new church information policy, and this is still being devised and implemented," Father Kovalevsky told Catholic News Service in an April 29 telephone interview. The first issue of the new monthly, edited by Father Aleksandr Chmeletsky, was dated April 21. In an introductory article, Moscow Archbishop Paolo Pezzi said the monthly would "continue the mission" of the weekly Svet Evangelia. The first issue included extracts from Pope Benedict XVI's encyclical, "Spe Salvi" (on Christian hope), and a new Russian edition of the Code of Canon Law, as well as articles on Christian marriage and Russian Catholic groups abroad.

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