Sophia Institute Press
{{Short description|American non-profit publishing company}}
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| status = Active
| founded = 1983
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| founder = John Barger
| successor = Charlie McKinney, President
| country = United States
| headquarters = Nashua, New Hampshire
| distribution =
| publications = Books, magazines
| topics = Catholicism, Christianity, religion
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| revenue = {{USD|10}} million (2020)
| numemployees = 48
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| url = {{URL|www.sophiainstitute.com}}
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Sophia Institute Press is a non-profit conservative Catholic publishing company based in Nashua, New Hampshire, United States.
It publishes Catholic books, the online opinion journal Crisis Magazine, the traditionalist Catholic website OnePeterFive, the Tridentine Mass missalette Benedictus, the website CatholicExchange.com, and catechetical materials for teachers. It also operates a music division, Sophia Music Group, via its 2021 acquisition of the De Montfort Music and AimHigher Recordings labels.
History
Sophia Institute was founded in 1983 by John L. Barger, then a philosophy professor at Magdalen College in Bedford, New Hampshire, along with his student Paul DiIulio.{{cite journal
|url=http://www.crisismagazine.com/1994/sophias-secret
|title=Sophia's Secret
|journal=Crisis
|date=April 1, 1994
|author=David A. Bovenizer
|accessdate=June 13, 2016
}} Under Barger's direction, the press published over 200 titles and 2.5 million books. In 2011, while the press was the publishing division of Thomas More College of Liberal Arts and Holy Spirit College, Charlie McKinney was the publisher's chief operating officer.
In 2012, Barger retired from directing Sophia Institute, and the Institute's board selected Charlie McKinney as its new president.{{cite news
|publisher=Catholic News Agency
|title=Sophia Institute Press names new President
|date=November 14, 2012
|access-date=June 4, 2013
|url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/26060/sophia-institute-press-names-new-president
}}
Sophia Institute for Teachers
In 2014, Sophia Institute began Sophia Institute for Teachers to aid Catholic religion teachers, offering lesson plans, instructional videos, and teacher formation workshops.{{cite news|url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/29526/sophia-institute-press-new-project-to-aid-catholic-teachers |title=Sophia Institute's New Project Aids Catholic Teachers | publisher=Catholic News Agency| date=Apr 29, 2014| access-date=Feb 25, 2016}}
Partnership with EWTN Global Catholic Network
In 2015, Sophia Institute Press formed a joint venture with the international Catholic television service EWTN to establish EWTN Publishing, a new entity that publishes books by the network's foundress Mother Angelica and other hosts of EWTN programming.{{cite news|url=http://www.ncregister.com/daily-news/ewtn-forms-new-publishing-group-with-sophia-institute-press |title=EWTN Forms New Publishing Group with Sophia Institute Press| publisher=National Catholic Register| date=Nov 4, 2012| accessdate=June 4, 2013}}
{{anchor|Crisis}}''Crisis'' magazine
{{Redirect|Crisis Magazine|the NAACP publication|The Crisis}}
In 1982 at Notre Dame, theologian Michael Novak and philosophy professor Ralph McInerny founded an opinion magazine under the title Catholicism in Crisis, as a voice of Catholic neoconservative political and cultural thought.{{cite book
|author=Todd Scribner
|title=A Partisan Church: American Catholicism and the Rise of Neoconservative Catholics
|publisher=CUA Press
|date=2015
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TNDECAAAQBAJ&q=crisis+michael+novak+ralph+mcinerny&pg=PA216
|accessdate=June 10, 2016
|page=216
|isbn=9780813227290
}} In 1986 its title was changed to Crisis. From 1995 to 2011 Deal Hudson was the magazine's publisher. In late 2007 the magazine ceased print publication, and its content moved to its companion website under the title "Inside Catholic". After Sophia Institute Press acquired the magazine in 2011, it resumed the name Crisis.{{cite news
|url=http://ncronline.org/blogs/distinctly-catholic/crisis-magazine-returns
|author=Michael Sean Winters (commentary)
|work=National Catholic Reporter
|date=May 10, 2011
|title=Crisis Magazine Returns
|accessdate=June 13, 2016
}} The college transferred the magazine to Sophia Institute in 2012.{{cite journal
|url=http://www.crisismagazine.com/2013/the-future-of-crisis-magazine
|title=The Future of Crisis Magazine (fundraising article)
|author=Charlie McKinney
|date=December 9, 2013
|accessdate=June 13, 2016
|journal=Crisis
|url=https://www.catholicnewsagency.com/news/24275/after-acquisition-crisis-magazine-re-launches-website
|title=After acquisition, Crisis Magazine re-launches website
|date=February 10, 2012
|access-date=June 10, 2016
|publisher=Catholic News Agency
}} Eric Sammons was named the Editor-in-Chief in January 2021.{{Cite web|date=2021-01-05|title=The Present Crisis|url=https://www.crisismagazine.com/2021/the-present-crisis-2|access-date=2021-10-13|website=Crisis Magazine|language=en-US}}
=Crisis Publications=
In April 2019, the press began publishing books with Crisis Magazine branding. The new imprint, called Crisis Publications, is dedicated to books that examine social and cultural trends from a Roman Catholic perspective.{{cite web |last1=Wenner |first1=Emma |title=Catholic Publishers Focus on Moving Forward |url=https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/religion/article/80709-catholic-publishers-focus-on-moving-forward.html |website=Publishers Weekly |accessdate=8 April 2020}}
In September 2020, the press began Tradivox series, a multi-volume book series that restores and reprints historical Catholic catechisms.{{Cite news|last=Seng|first=Aaron|date=2 October 2020|title=How Tradivox is Restoring the Lost Riches of Catechesis|url=https://catholicexchange.com/how-tradivox-is-restoring-the-lost-riches-of-catechesis|website=Catholic Exchange}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.sophiainstitute.com/ Official website]
- [http://www.sophiainstituteforteachers.org/ Sophia Institute for Teachers]
- [http://www.crisismagazine.com/ Crisis magazine]
- [http://catholicexchange.com/ Catholic Exchange]
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