The Catholic News Agency (CNA) is a provider of news related to Catholicism

Catholicism

Catholicism is a broad term for the body of the Catholic faith, its theologies and doctrines, its liturgical, ethical, spiritual, and behavioral characteristics, as well as a religious people as a whole....

 to an English speaking audience worldwide. It is headquartered in Denver, Colorado

Denver, Colorado

The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is a consolidated city-county, located in the South Platte River Valley on the western edge of the High Plains just east of the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains...

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It covers Catholic news, and has regular columns by various columnists such as bishop Samuel J. Aquila

Samuel Joseph Aquila

Samuel Joseph Aquila is the seventh and current Bishop of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Fargo in North Dakota....

 and Catholic author, columnist and speaker Louie Verrecchio

Louie Verrecchio

Louie Verrecchio, M.I. is a Catholic author, columnist and speaker residing in the Archdiocese of Baltimore, MD. He is the President and Founder of Salve Regina Publications, Inc., and the author of the highly acclaimed Harvesting the Fruit of Vatican II series of conciliar document study...

. It also includes many Catholic book reviews by Catholic clergy reviewers.

News from the agency is at times used by other Catholic news services such as EWTN or Christian News Wire. The viewpoints presented by CNA at times run counter to the views of other non-Catholic news agencies, e.g. some in mainland China

Mainland China

Mainland China, the Chinese mainland or simply the mainland, is a geopolitical term that refers to the area under the jurisdiction of the People's Republic of China . According to the Taipei-based Mainland Affairs Council, the term excludes the PRC Special Administrative Regions of Hong Kong and...

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There is a similar, but unrelated, agency called the Catholic News Service

Catholic News Service

Catholic News Service is an American news agency covering the Roman Catholic Church. CNS was established in 1920 and is a leading source of news for Catholic print and broadcast media throughout the world....

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