On the Demise of Our Sunday Visitor, by Peter Wolfgang

By Peter Wolfgang, Catholic Culture,  Aug 17, 2025

Peter Wolfgang is president of Family Institute of Connecticut Action, a Hartford-based advocacy organization whose mission is to encourage and strengthen the family as the foundation of society. …

There was a time when this would have been a big deal. Because OSV used to be a big deal. The reports of its demise in the NCR, and in OSV itself, barely touches on it. The closest you get is that passing reference to how OSV had a circulation of nearly one million in the 1950s. And how it has a couple other periodicals, in addition to its flagship publication, that will also cease to exist.

But even in the early 1990s—the point at which I started reading every Catholic periodical under the sun—OSV’s circulation was around 125,000. By comparison, the National Catholic Reporter—treated at the time as the Catholic paper of record by the New York Times and others—was about 50,000. The National Catholic Register—this is pre-EWTN ownership, even pre-Legion of Christ, we’re talking the Joop Koopman era—was something like 10 or 15,000. ….

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