Father Owen Kearns
Publisher and Editor in Chief
National Catholic Register
This Week in the Register...
Awaiting Peter
The upcoming visit of Pope Benedict XVI is becoming more
real for us. Our writers and editors just received notice of their
accreditation for different events — subject to screening by the secret
service.
As a newspaper publisher, I look forward to a rare
opportunity in the papal visit to America. Catholics in this country really do
have an opportunity to seize the moment that we are in the spotlight to let the
world know that what Pope Benedict said is true: “The Church is alive and the Church
is young!”
For me as a priest, the Holy Father’s visit has a profound
personal dimension. He is the Pope, the Bishop of Rome and the Successor of
Saint Peter, the visible source and foundation of the unity of the Church. He
is the Vicar of Christ on Earth, the head of the College of bishops and pastor
of the universal Church. Far from simply being my ultimate “boss” in a
corporate sense, he is what the term of affection implies — a father in the
faith.
Pope Benedict XVI speaks with clarity and purity such that
it feels like a privilege to be a Catholic with him as the Pope. And of course,
it is.
God bless!
Biography
Father Owen Kearns, a Legionary of Christ, Publisher and Editor in Chief since the Fall of 1996 of the National Catholic Register, a weekly newspaper reporting on the Catholic views of cutting edge issues. Father Kearns is also the Publisher of Faith & Family, the magazine of Catholic Living, helping Catholic parents to implement Pope John Paul II’s vision for the family. The circulation of both publications has quadrupled since he became publisher.
Originally from Dublin, he studied in Salamanca, Spain, and at the Gregorian University and the Angelicum University in Rome. He was ordained in 1983 and speaks four languages. He has taught classical humanities and philosophy and was a vocation director for 16 years.
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