MISSION
Helping to Bring Jesus Christ to Everyone …and Everyone to Jesus Christ

Catholic Radio Indy is a not-for-profit organization established to present the gospel of Jesus Christ to all in Central Indiana. Our goal is to broadcast the beauty and teachings of the Catholic Church and to inform, inspire and challenge listeners so that all who hear our programming may be brought into the Kingdom of God.

We are not-for-profit, listener-supported Catholic Radio. We receive no direct financial support from either the Archdiocese of Indianapolis nor the diocese of Lafayette-in-Indiana. We are grateful to both dioceses for their strong support of our mission and efforts.

Our corporate name is Inter Mirifica, a term coming from Vatican II, which is a call to action for the church laity to be responsible for evangelization.


Our Patron, Priest and Martyr 1894-1941
Feast Day - Aug 14th

St. Maximilian Kolbe was a well-known communicator, before later becoming a martyr in a Nazi prisoner of war camp. He foumaximilian kolbended the Knights of the Immaculata, whose aim was to fight evil with the witness of the good life, prayer, work and suffering. His organization founded several houses for religious in Poland and Japan and published a magazine that reached a circulation of over 1,000,000. In Poland he also set up the very first Catholic radio station in that part of the world. The broadcasts were 100% local and featured teaching, music and singing by members of one of his religious communities.

After the fall of Poland in 1939, St. Maximilian and several of his friars were arrested, imprisoned, but later released. Several months later, the Nazis re-arrested St. Maximilian, imprisoned him, which ultimately lead to his being held at Auschwitz prison camp. There, after the escape of a prisoner, the commandant announced that 10 other prisoners, at random, would die in his place. One of those prisoners, when selected by the commandant, stated that he had a wife and children. St. Maximilian Kolbe volunteered to take his place without fanfare. The ten were led away to be confined in cells where they were allowed to starve to death.

Welcome to The Catholic Telegraph, the monthly magazine of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati. We are one of the oldest newspapers in the United States, published continuously since 1831.

Currently 133,000 subscribers receive the magazine in their mailboxes each month, and this website is another way in which we hope to continue our mission of proclaiming the Good News of our Catholic faith. In 2019, along with www.thecatholictelegraph.com, new offerings of The Daily Divina and the Weekly Ember were introduced.

HISTORY
A scanned copy from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Chancery Archives shows the first edition of The Catholic Telegraph from Oct. 22, 1831. The copy in the image was previously part of the Sisters of Charity archive.
A scanned copy from the Archdiocese of Cincinnati Chancery Archives shows the first edition of The Catholic Telegraph from Oct. 22, 1831. The copy in the image was previously part of the Sisters of Charity archive.
On Saturday, Oct. 22, 1831, The Catholic Telegraph came into being at the behest of Bishop Edward Fenwick, OP, bishop of the then-Diocese of Cincinnati. Bishop Fenwick’s 10-year-old diocese reached from Kentucky to northern Michigan, and he believed that a newspaper was needed to help him communicate with a far-flung flock that was often subjected to virulent anti-Catholic attack. His letters, sermons and reports were the primary focus of the early paper.

The Catholic Telegraph was the first Catholic newspaper founded west of the Allegheny Mountains. It should be the oldest continuously published Catholic newspaper in the United States, but for a brief period — during the cholera plague of autumn of 1832 that claimed among its many victims Bishop Fenwick — the paper’s first editor, Father Mullen, laid his pen down in order to minister to people in need, suspending publication for a short time. In historical circles, The Catholic Telegraph is lauded for its strong abolitionist positions before and during the Civil War. Throughout its long history, the paper has not been afraid to speak out against wars, civil rights abuses, human rights abuses, political wrongdoing and social ills. But as one Massachusetts priest, Father J.M. Finnotti, wrote in 1875 of The Catholic Telegraph, “Charity has had a powerful sway over its editorials.”

The paper has maintained The Catholic Telegraph name and the following motto since its founding: “In essentials, unity; in non-essentials, liberty, and in all things, charity.” We find this a most worthy motto to work by even 184 years later.

The newspaper’s influence was the subject of a 1943 book, The Editorial Opinion of The Catholic Telegraph of Cincinnati on Contemporary Affairs and Politics, 1871-1921. It has been used widely for reference in other historical works and dissertations.

In 1937, the newspaper became known as The Catholic Telegraph Register, published by the Register chain of Catholic newspapers based in Denver. Since 1961 it has been under the management of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati and is known simply as The Catholic Telegraph.

In 2009, the newspaper launched TheCatholicTelegraph.com website.

In September of 2011 The Catholic Telegraph became a monthly publication.

In November of 2015, the website was overhauled with a new format, color scheme and logo, as well as functionality for reading on mobile devices.

In June of 2020, the history newspaper became The Catholic Telegraph Magazine.

The monthly magazine is read in nearly 145,000 homes throughout the archdiocese. By June 2020 , TheCatholicTelegraph.com was averaging 2,500 users per day and 4,300 page views per day.

ABOUT CATHOLICS FOR CATHOLICS:

Who started Catholics for Catholics and what is its mission?
We are a group of Catholics who love God and Country.
Our Faith impels us to make our voices heard in the public square as the Savior instructed us not to keep our light under a basket.
Furthermore, since so many core American principles sync with the bedrock 2,000 year old teaching of our own Catholic Faith, this validates even more our mission to be in the world, though not of it.
As a 501c4 organization Catholics for Catholics provides educational resources about Catholic doctrine including materials addressing Catholic leaders’ positions on public policy, legislation, and other matters affecting social welfare. Catholics for Catholics also promotes related activities that similarly promote social welfare based on Catholic doctrinal teachings.
The two-tiered focus of education and action as outlined above, will help us to hold our elected leaders accountable to the Constitution and in a special way to those politicians who refer to themselves as Catholic. Recently, we have witnessed a unique crisis unfolding within both Church and State, as leaders in both have begun to veer from our guiding documents; the Holy Bible and Constitution.
It is not enough to call oneself Catholic for one must show it with actions and policies that reflect it. The deafening silence of Church leaders who are the first ones tasked with guarding the truths of our Faith, has made it all the more urgent that we stand up now and hold the line.
The cultural climate has shown an increasingly hostile effort to silence voices like us. Yet by locking arms with other groups that are doing the same, and tapping into the blood of martyrs that flow in our veins, we will trust in the words of the Mother of Christ who said in the apparition of 1859 in Wisconsin, “Go and Fear Nothing, I will help you.”

GET UPDATES ON THE POLITICAL LANDSCAPE FROM A CATHOLIC PERSPECTIVE.
Catholics for Catholics is moving hearts and minds for Jesus Christ and His Church—and inspiring a new wave of Catholicism and love of America.

The Catholic Stewards Podcast is a must-listen for college students seeking to deepen their faith and to better understand their Catholicism while living in a modern society.
Join us as we delve into the questions faced by students, addressing the topics that are often shied away from and exploring new ways to grow in our faith and become saints.