''The Catholic Review'' is

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's largest paid weekly newspaper distributed by mail. The ''Review'' covers national and international news of interest to Catholics and serves as the newspaper of record for the

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History

The ''Review'' is the successor to the original diocesan newspaper ''The Catholic Mirror'' (founded in 1833) which was published until 1908. After an interval of five and a half years, under

James Cardinal Gibbons James Cardinal Gibbons (July 23, 1834 – March 24, 1921) was a senior-ranking American prelate of the Catholic Church who served as Apostolic Vicar of North Carolina from 1868 to 1872, Bishop of Richmond from 1872 to 1877, and as ninth ...

, then

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, the ''Baltimore Catholic Review'' was initiated and later renamed with the shorter title of ''The Catholic Review''. In 2012, with circulation down to 50,000, the ''Review'' switched from a weekly to a biweekly publication schedule for the print edition. In 2002, the publishing office of the ''Review'' was set up separately from the Archbishop's Office and the Archdiocese itself as the Cathedral Foundation and moved six blocks north from the Catholic Center/ Archdiocese Building at the southwest corner of Cathedral Street and West Mulberry Street, across from the historic

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(the old Baltimore Cathedral and Basilica) on Cathedral Hill to 880 Park Avenue, in the surrounding Mount Vernon-Belvedere neighborhood.

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