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...latest symptom of crisis occurs this week when the National Register, a 43-year-old weekly Catholic newspaper supported widely by U.S. bishops, will be taken over by Twin Circle Publishing Co., a right-wing Catholic enterprise supported by Schick Millionaire Patrick J. Frawley...
Council Victim. The $500,000 purchase agreement, reportedly financed by Frawley, solved the immediate fiscal problems facing the Register publishers, Denver's Catholic Press Society. The paper's national edition was down from 190,000 at the beginning of 1969 to 112,000 recently; the number of its diocesan editions dropped from a high...
...Father Daniel Flaherty. But the emphasis on local diocesan life resulting from Vatican II was a more critical factor: several large dioceses decided to publish their own papers, leaving an enlarged Register printing plant underutilized. Now, as part of the sale agreement, Twin Circle-the original weekly backed by Frawley-will also be printed at the Denver plant, which stays in the hands of the former Register owners...
...views expressed by Lyons. Francis, who admits that Twin Circle is only "a journal of opinion," promises to make the Register into a "national Catholic newspaper of record." Whether he can do this under the watchful eye of Father Lyons, who will move to Denver from his offices in Frawley's Los Angeles building, is arguable. But Francis insists: "The Register is not going to be Twin Circle. If it is necessary to do any disassociating, I will show it by the content of the paper...
...even referring the matter to the members. Many men in Congress, after all, have outside sources of income, particularly from the practice of law. Still, few have such a direct connection, and probably no other legislator is the employee of a company whose chairman, like Technicolor's Patrick Frawley Jr., is a militant advocate of right-wing causes...