BIDDNG FAREWELL TO THE MORE THAN A CENTTURY OLD SACRAMENTO DIOCESAN NEWSPAPER : "THE CATHOLIC HERALD"..........

The final edition of the Sacramento Diocesan Newspaper, 'The Catholic Herald', is being published today, and after 102 years, will give way to a new, bi-monthly, Catholic Herald Magazine, which begins in September. For more than a century the Catholic Herald newspaper has been our reliable and trustworthy diocesan communications link in parishes and homes throughout the geographical expanse of the Sacramento Diocese. In my lifetime which encompasses more than half of the Catholic Herald newspaper history, the Editors of the Catholic Herald have been Reverend Monsignors Richard Dwyer, John Terwillger, Eymard Gallagher, James Murphy, and Mr. Patrick Joyce, and Ms. Julie Sly. From reading it from the front porch as a child to eagerly awaiting it as a seminarian and priest studying and ministering in places near and far, to my favorite annual editions, which included the Easter and Christmas Schedules of diocesan parishes, I like many others throughout these 20 counties will miss receiving and reading The Catholic Herald newpaper. As we await the September premiere of the new, bimonthly, Catholic Herald magazine, we must hope the cessation of our diocesan newspaper will not mean a lessening of timely and effective communicating and evangelizing with our far spread, diocesan family.........In Gratitude For The Presence Of The Catholic Herald Diocesan Newspaper; 1908 - 2010, Fr. Troy