Swiss Catholic Press Association
The Swiss Catholic Press Association ( SKPV ) was founded at the beginning of the 20th century with the aim of developing “powerful propaganda ” for the Catholic press . The Catholic press flourished in the climate of the Kulturkampf after the First Vatican Council in 1870. It was intended to offer Catholics an alternative to the liberal and socialist opinion press. The Catholics, for their part, should diligently subscribe to the “good press”. The Catholic International Press Agency Kipa was founded in 1917 to deliver Catholic news . With the opening of the Catholic milieu after the Second Vatican Council and the replacement of the opinion press by an ideologically neutral forum press, the Catholic papers gradually disappeared. Today, the press association ensures, among other things, that the topic of religion appears regularly in the forum press.