"The Catholic News Archive is a free, fully searchable digital archive of Catholic newspapers. With participation and support from the Association of Catholic Diocesan Archivists (ACDA) and the Catholic Library Association (CLA), Atla’s CRRA program is taking the lead in digitizing historical Catholic newspapers. The archive launched in 2016 as a project of the Catholic Research Resources Alliance (now the CRRA Program at Atla), developed in partnership with newspapers, diocesan archives, and financial supporters to meet the need for online access and digital preservation of Catholic newspapers. Since then, the Catholic News Archive has grown steadily with content from 1831-2024, with more than 800,000 annual page views. It has become a news source regularly consulted by journalists, Church leaders, researchers, and readers worldwide.
[...] The Catholic News Archive contains thousands of newspaper pages from different cities that spans over multiple decades. The collection is fully text searchable, including the newspapers’ editorials, pictures, and advertisements. The Catholic News Archive is made possible by a community passionate about preservation and access. We welcome new publication partnerships at any time. We partner with trusted organizations like The USCCB, Our Sunday Visitor, and many Diocesan publishers and archives. [...] The Catholic News Archive News Hosting Service provides hosting of both current and historical issues for Catholic media. The News Hosting Service provides a secure, professional-grade, reliable, and search-engine-friendly solution for Catholic publications seeking to create or maintain online access via a subscription model." (About this collection, 2026-09-18)