NCR Staff

Your thoughts: It is a controversial tradition, but six U.S. presidents have spoken at the University of Notre Dame's commencement exercises, and a total of nine presidents have received honorary degrees. But will our nation's second Catholic president be invited to speak?

Your thoughts: NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters publishes three columns a week, and we get many letters to the editor responding to his opinions.

Your thoughts: The U.S. bishops' conference disbanded its controversial working group formed to deal with President Joe Biden, showing that the leadership might have recognized their stance was ill-considered.

Your thoughts: NCR posted two recent opinion pieces about the rise of liberal Catholicism since the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Or, have we been here all along?

Your thoughts: In NCR's latest editorial, we called for the Vatican to investigate the U.S. bishops' conference after their recent divisive rhetoric.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent opinion piece by Franciscan Sr. Fran Ferder and Fr. John Heagle that says many Catholics who voted for former President Donald Trump because of his "pro-life" stance were conned by the con artist himself.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our Jan. 7 editorial, in which we write that among those with some culpability for the failed Jan. 6 insurrection are more than a few leaders in the Catholic Church.

Your thoughts: Letters from readers responding to NCR's choice of President-elect Joe Biden as the 2020 Catholic Newsmaker of the Year. 

Your thoughts: With the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, revisit letters to the editor responding to an article about why some Catholics support President Donald Trump.

Your thoughts: In a recent column, NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters discusses an article by Archbishop Charles Chaput talking about whether President-elect Joe Biden should receive Communion. 

Your thoughts: Public opinion over statues of St. Junípero Serra — and the church's legacy toward Indigenous people of the West Coast — is divided, but Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has been holding exorcisms at the sites where Serra's statues were toppled.

Your thoughts: Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister says her mother told her that something can be learned in everything. And Chittister learned a lot of lessons from someone she didn't expect — President Donald Trump.

Your thoughts: The president of the U.S. bishops' conference surprised some fellow bishops at the end of the virtual assembly with the announcement of the formation of a working group to examine President-elect Joe Biden's stance on abortion.

Your thoughts: With the release of the Vatican's report on former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, one figure was mentioned over and over again, St. John Paul II. 

Your thoughts: We are continuing to dive into the in-depth Vatican report on disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, which was finally released Nov. 10.

Your thoughts: Thomas P. Doyle reviews a new book that examines clergy sexual abuse, in which the author's research is "nothing short of remarkable, stunning and most importantly, authentic."

#CatholicsVote2020: NCR reporters and analysts will be tracking developments at the intersection of faith and politics throughout the day Nov. 3 — and until a winner can accurately be determined.

Your thoughts: You may have seen the recent news that Pope Francis said in a new documentary, "Francesco," that he supports civil union laws for same-sex couples, which, as NCR reported, is not really that recent of news. 

Your thoughts: In his latest Soul Seeing column, Michael Leach writes about how he needs to forgive President Donald Trump, no matter how hard it is to do so.

Your thoughts: A recent column from Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese has stirred up the debate again in the news that changing the words of the formula for baptism renders the sacrament invalid.