For about 15 years Roca was the moving spirit behind a number of Catholic Canarias periodicals, either issued directly by the bishopric or by related institutions. Since the early 1870s he managed a El Golgota,some authors claim that Roca managed also El Triunfo and La Tregua, Roma 1933, p. 223, Del Burgo 1978, p. 438; however, other scholars claim these were independent Carlist dailies, Perez Plasencia 1998, p. 78 though its lifetime is uncertain;Roma 1933, p. 223, Del Burgo 1978, p. 438 it went beyond the format of a local parochial print, as thanks to Roca's ingenuity El Golgota had correspondents in France, England and Italy.Perez Plasencia 1998, pp. 78-79 In 1879 he launched a diocesan daily, El Faro Católico de Canarias.Del Burgo 1978, p. 345 It was probably rather short-lived, as in 1881 Roca focused on a new bi-weeklyDel Burgo 1978, p. 846 La Revista de las Palmas. It turned out to be a more lasting enterprise, with youth supplement Los Jueves de la Revista added in 1885; as director, RocaDel Burgo 1978, p. 547 managed the publication until 1888.Millares Cantero 1998, p. 113 Having moved to Seville in 1899 Roca launched a diocesan daily El Correo de Andalucia and for a while was its key editor.Jesus Donaire, ¡El Correo de Andalucía cumple 120 años!, [in:] El Correo de Andalucía 02.02.19, available here In the 1900s he vigorously took part in conferences known as Asamblea Nacional de Buena Prensae.g. in 1906 in Seville or in 1908 in Zaragoza, José Fermín Garralda Arizcun, José Roca y Ponsa, [in:] Real Academia de Historia service, available here and until the early 1910s remained active in their Sevillan outpost, inspecting Catholic papers in terms of their orthodoxy.Roca was active in Centro General de Sevilla, a local Andalusian body of Asociación Nacional de la Buena Prensa; he served as one of the “consultores”, José-Leonardo Ruiz Sánchez, Periodismo católico en Sevilla, [in:] José-Leonardo Ruiz Sánchez (ed.), Catolicismo y comunicación en la historia contemporánea, Sevilla 2005, , p. 147
