The Monitor was the official weekly newspaper of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of San Francisco from 1858 to 1984.
The Monitor began publishing in 1858 in part to defend San Francisco's minority groups against attacks by The Hounds. The paper was funded by subscriptions. By the 1980s, its readership among immigrants had waned, despite changes such as publishing bilingual English–Spanish issues. In 1981, circulation was further impacted by the establishment of the Diocese of San José and its paper The Valley Catholic. The Monitor published its last issue on June 14, 1984, citing competition from television.[1]
In 1999, the archdiocese began publishing a second paper, Catholic San Francisco.