Catholic Review media bias and reliability
Ad Fontes Media places Catholic Review in the centre. We have seen it on 13 published stories of ours.
The short answers
Is Catholic Review biased?
Ad Fontes Media places Catholic Review in the centre. An outlet rating describes a broad pattern in its output, not every article it publishes.
Is Catholic Review left or right?
Ad Fontes Media places Catholic Review in the centre. In the three-way grouping used on story pages, that puts it under Centre.
Is Catholic Review reliable?
The factual-reliability assessments we hold for Catholic Review are Ad Fontes Media: High factuality. These are outlet-level assessments, not a guarantee that every report is correct.
What Catholic Review has been covering
Our account of each story, written from every outlet that ran it, with Catholic Review’s own report linked underneath.
The Food and Drug Administration's safety review of the nation's main abortion pill, mifepristone, will extend into next year, according to a court-ordered update. The agency expects to complete a safety study by mid-December and issue a report by March 2027.
Catholic Review reported it asFDA expects to draft mifepristone safety review next year; pro-life groups call it 'insufficient' (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
Pope Leo has undergone surgery to remove part of his right lung due to lung cancer. The Vatican reports he is recovering well, walking and eating normally, though questions remain about the extent of the cancer and its impact on his upcoming tour.
Catholic Review reported it asPope Leo XIV to undergo surgery to remove lung nodule (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
Journal entries kept by Pope Francis before and during his papacy are to be published this autumn for the first time. The book, titled 'The Private Diary of Pope Francis,' will be released on November 24 in English and four other languages.
Catholic Review reported it asVatican to publish Pope Francis' private diary (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
The Supreme Court is weighing whether local governments can sue energy companies for climate change costs. The case, brought by Boulder, Colorado, could determine the future of climate litigation against fossil fuel producers nationwide.
Catholic Review reported it asSupreme Court expected to hear religious liberty, gun and environmental cases in its new term (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
Christa Pike, 50, remains unconscious and on a ventilator in a Tennessee hospital following a failed execution attempt. Her lawyer stated she has not regained consciousness and her prognosis is uncertain.
Catholic Review reported it asTennessee Catholic bishops join call for clemency for inmate who survived execution attempt (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
New York will participate in a federal scholarship tax credit program starting January 1. Taxpayers can receive federal credits for donations to nonprofit scholarship organizations, with individuals eligible for up to $1,700 and married couples up to $3,400. The program faces opposition from teachers unions.
Catholic Review reported it asCatholic education leaders applaud proposed rules on tax credit (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
Louisiana, Alabama, and Arkansas are suing New York, California, and Massachusetts, alleging their abortion shield laws unconstitutionally facilitate the distribution of abortion drugs. A separate suit targets individuals and groups for shipping these drugs.
Catholic Review reported it asMultistate lawsuit asks Supreme Court to hear challenge to abortion 'shield laws' (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
The Supreme Court has permitted the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own. The court will hear arguments on the policy in December, with three liberal justices dissenting from the decision.
Catholic Review reported it asSupreme Court temporarily permits third-country deportations as challenge proceeds (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
Pope Leo XIV has stated that concerns about artificial intelligence are not 'fake news' and warrant serious attention. Speaking aboard the papal plane, he assured he does not sleep in panic mode regarding AI, despite its potential risks.
Catholic Review reported it asPope Leo XIV says he's not losing sleep over AI apocalypse fears (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
Pope Leo delivered a speech in France on September 25, 2026, opposing the country’s newly enacted assisted-dying law. He addressed President Emmanuel Macron, warning that profit-driven science could promote surrogacy, organ trade, genetic manipulation and assisted death.
Catholic Review reported it asAt Lourdes, a refuge for the ill, Pope Leo stands against assisted dying laws (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
President Donald Trump's address to the United Nations General Assembly included numerous claims that have been disputed by experts and official reports. These assertions covered topics from U.S. munitions stockpiles and global oil reserves to his record on settling wars and climate change warnings.
Catholic Review reported it asTrump tells UN he may opt to 'annihilate' Iran, will rebrand AI 'superintelligence' (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
A Department of Homeland Security inspector general report found that nearly 80 immigrant detainees at the 'Alligator Alcatraz' facility were held in small metal enclosures for periods ranging from several minutes to nearly two hours. The report described the enclosures as 'highly unconventional' and a risk to detainee health and safety.
Catholic Review reported it asDHS watchdog finds inhumane conditions at 'Alligator Alcatraz,' including use of small enclosures (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
A Department of Justice report has sharply criticized an FBI memo that linked "radical-traditionalist Catholic ideology" to domestic violent extremism. The report found the memo to be a "grave failure" and an "abuse of power," while the FBI had initiated the investigation based on an individual with violent online posts.
Catholic Review reported it asNew DOJ report alleges FBI 'took minimal corrective action' after 'radical traditionalist' memo (opens Catholic Review in a new tab)
Who says so
One organisation has published a rating for this outlet. Where they disagree, the disagreement is the useful part and it is left standing.
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How reliably it reports fact
A rating of the newsroom in general, by others, and a different thing from the Trust score we publish on each story, which judges one piece of reporting.
High factuality
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Who owns it
We hold no ownership record for Catholic Review.
Where it publishes from
- Official site
- catholicreview.org
- Seen publishing on
- catholicreview.org
- Access
- Free to read
What we have seen ourselves
Counted across the stories this site has published, which is the only denominator a reader can check: every one of them has a page, and every page lists the reports it was written from.
- Stories
- 13
- Reports listed
- 13
- We could read
- 1
- First seen
- 1 September 2026
12 of those reports were paywalled or blocked to us. Our reading of this outlet is built on the 1 we could open, not on everything it published.
A blindspot is measured against one side of the spectrum. Catholic Review is rated centre, so there is no side for it to be counted against and we publish no figure here.
Across the 13 stories of ours where at least three of the reports we listed carried a time, another outlet was always ahead of Catholic Review: its report arrived a median of 3 days after the earliest one we logged.
Measured 17 October 2026. Last seen in a coverage list 16 October 2026. Ratings pulled 1 October 2026.
Other outlets rated the same way
Publishers carrying the same published leaning as Catholic Review, ordered by how often we have seen them on a story. Sharing a rating is not the same as being alike.
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What we are responsible for is everything else: the ownership chain, where Catholic Review publishes from, which of our stories we have listed it on, and whether we have the right publisher at all. Tell us what is wrong and an editor reads it.
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Every rating on this page is a named third party’s published work, republished with its author and, where one exists, a link to it. Our own coverage record is the section we measure ourselves. Neither is a judgement of any individual report: those are scored story by story, and the reasoning is on our methodology page.