The Cathedral (magazine)

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The cathedral

description Catholic weekly newspaper and church newspaper of the Archdiocese of Paderborn
language German
publishing company Bonifatius GmbH ( Germany )
First edition 1946
Frequency of publication weekly
Sold edition 16,509 copies
( IVW  Q1 / 2018)
editor The Archbishop of Paderborn
( Hans-Josef Becker )
Web link derdom.de

The cathedral is a Catholic weekly newspaper and the church newspaper of the Archdiocese of Paderborn . It appears weekly with a sold circulation of over 16,000 copies.

history

Up until the Reichsdeputationshauptschluss , Catholic life in the then Principality of Paderborn was largely unaffected by secular rulers. That changed, however, when the Prussians took over rule in the former prince-bishopric and the diocese borders were redefined. As a reaction to the middle of the 19th century, historiography mentions a mood of optimism in the Catholic population. Many parishes were newly founded and the Bonifatiusverein for Catholic Germany took its seat in the episcopal city of Paderborn .

Just at this time of the Kulturkampf from 1871 to 1887 a new church magazine was founded. The Bonifatiusverein found the time to "go into the media". He had devoted himself to missionary work in the diaspora and sought to achieve his apostolate, among other things, by spreading Catholic scriptures. For this purpose, a new daily newspaper called "Liborius-Bote" was published in the Bonifacius printing company founded in 1869 . After seven years, however, the Catholic newspaper had to stop its publication. At the same time, however, another paper from the publisher had spoken out with less combative ambitions, a “Sunday paper for the Catholic people” with the name LEO (after the newly elected Pope Leo XIII ). In the first edition of April 7, 1878, it presented a new concept of Catholic publication which, using a popular notation, “offers our good Catholic people a refreshing and warming reading for Sunday so that they can fill a part of the Sunday afternoon with it ". The price of the paper was deliberately kept low at 40 pfennigs per quarter. By moving to a new printer building in 1881 and a newly acquired double press, it was possible to produce double the edition in half the time. This meant that the LEO was now able to reach even the most remote villages in good time. On May 1, 1927, the LEO celebrates the anniversary of its 50th year. Caspar Klein , then Bishop of Paderborn, praised the paper on the occasion as a “Herald of truth and a defender of the most sacred interests”. The weekly circulation was 120,000 copies.

The Second World War was not without consequences for the LEO: On May 25, 1941, the publisher and editors announced the discontinuation of the paper with number 21 of the 64th volume. People and material should be "cleared for other war-important purposes", so the reason given to the outside world. The newspaper was suspended for five years. Then the then Vicar General Friedrich Maria Rintelen received the license to publish a newspaper from the Allied military government . The Archbishop's General Vicariate gave the Bonifacius printing house the publishing house for the Sunday paper, which was now to be called Der Dom . It received this title because the bishop's church in Paderborn, which was destroyed in the war, was, as it were, the symbol of a new life emerging from the ruins. While the scope was initially fixed at eight pages (with a fixed circulation of 120,000 copies), things went uphill with the church newspaper after the currency reform . The offer could be expanded, the topicality increased. The introduction of the parish and dean's supplements brought many new readers. The circulation soared to 197,000 copies by 1958.

The appearance of the cathedral has changed several times since it was first published - new fashions and design directions were the reason. With the seventh and so far last major change for Easter 2001, not only the external appearance of the sheet was fundamentally modified, but also the scope from 32 to 48 pages and the range of topics were again significantly expanded. In addition to church news and spiritual contemplation, there are reports, news from the diocese and parishes as well as media sites today.

The cathedral has been continuously modified since the last revision in 2001 . However, this happens in small steps. In 2006 the editorial design of the magazine was changed. In this reorganization, supra-regional reports have been bundled in the first part of the booklet and the diocese and regional reports in the second part. Also in 2006, multi-page thematic focuses were introduced. In 2007 Der Dom developed a style and rule book. The layout has also been further revised. Since then it has been 48 pages. The editors have been working freelance since January 1, 2010. The media service provider dreipunktdrei from Bonn delivers five pages per issue . In the first quarter of 2018, the weekly newspaper had a circulation of 17,978 copies with a sold circulation of 16,509 copies, of which 16,416 were subscribers .

Since December 2019 the cathedral has had a permanent editorial office again. The cathedral appears in a new layout and on better paper. The archbishop is no longer the publisher, but has handed this task over to an editorial board together with the publisher. This includes Msgr. Michael Bredeck, Prof. Dr. Bergit Peters from the Catholic University of North Rhine-Westphalia and Heribert Zelder, Head of Office in Paderborn. The cathedral now bears the subtitle Catholic magazine in the Archdiocese of Paderborn.

Regions

The regional pages of the newspaper are divided into different areas. However, in contrast to some other church newspapers , Der Dom appears uniformly everywhere and since 2005 without regional editions with alternating pages. The individual regions are:

Publishing and editing

  • Publishing director: Rolf Pitsch
  • responsible in terms of press law : Claudia Auffenberg
  • Editors : Andreas Wiedenhaus, Julia Hollwedel, Markus Jonas, Karl-Martin Flüter, Wolfgang Maas, Peter Körtling, Annabell Jatzke
  • permanent staff: Richard Schleyer

literature

  • Gerd Vieler: To the inclined Catholic reader. In: Der Dom , No. 14 from April 6, 2003, pp. 12-17. (for the 125th anniversary of the first edition of the Paderborn “Sunday paper for the Catholic people” in 1878)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ For the editors of the "Dom" comes the end. In: Neue Westfälische from December 22, 2009 ( online )
  2. ↑ Information community to determine the distribution of advertising media e. V. (IVW)

Coordinates: 51 ° 43 ′ 36.2 "  N , 8 ° 47 ′ 27.5"  E