The content is updated when the paper goes to press.

October 3, 2008. New Haven, CT. The National Catholic Register is already known for the depth, quality and Catholicity of its print journalism. Now it can add “online indispensability” to its calling card.

That’s thanks to a thorough retooling of its website, NCRegister.com.

With full access to all the weekly newspaper’s news, features and commentary — along with a searchable archive of virtually everything the paper has published in the 2000s, plus a growing collection of faith-formative resources — the website now offers Register subscribers arguably the richest library of news-oriented Catholic content on the Internet.

Non-subscribers will continue to enjoy free access to select stories and features.

One of the site’s most dynamic additions is a daily weblog providing incisive, up-to-the-minute analysis of breaking news as it happens.

“The world is moving too fast not to dedicate resources to follow daily developments as they happen,” says the Register’s executive editor, Tom Hoopes. “Our readers have told us they want help viewing events in the world through the eyes of the Church. That’s the need our Daily Blog — and, in fact, all our content — hopes to meet.”

Along with exclusive coverage of national, world and Vatican news, each issue of the National Catholic Register provides commentary from leading Catholic thinkers. Feature beats include higher education, the arts, travel and books. A family-friendly section, “Culture of Life,” promotes marriage, family life and pro-life organizations.

All this content is updated on NCRegister.com when the paper goes to press.

The website’s “Resources” page offers a guide to Catholic colleges, a calendar of upcoming Catholic conferences and other events, a series of devotional guides, and many other useful reading materials.

“We believe our media apostolate is incisive when it comes to providing news and views with journalistic accuracy, doctrinal soundness and confident fidelity to the Gospel and the Church’s teaching,” says the Register’s publisher and editor-in-chief, Father Owen Kearns, LC. “Our readers are some of the most demanding, discerning and ‘tuned in’ Catholics in the country. They’re confident in their grasp of the facts when they go out and engage the secular culture.”

Register readers will now be equipped with greater timeliness and more immediate relevance, thanks to the revamped NCRegister.com and its Daily Blog.