Christopher White

A new initiative by the Foundations and Donors Interested in Catholic Activities umbrella organization encourages funders to sign a pledge to review their own internal safeguarding policies, as well as that of their grantee partners.

Martin Baron said the Boston Globe's reporting on clergy sex abuse demonstrated that the hierarchy of the church had betrayed the faithful. Looking back on his career, Baron said the country must return to being capable of agreeing on a common set of facts.

Boston College is investigating the chairman of its theology department, Richard Gaillardetz, following allegations he sexually assaulted a former classmate more than three decades ago.

As the HBO documentary chronicles, Luis Miranda has two great loves: family and country — and the borders of both should be welcoming and expansive. NCR's Christopher White reached out to his neighbor Luis for a conversation.

Twenty-one priests said in a statement that people of faith have a particular duty to "help, support, and defend" LGBT youth who are at heightened risk of suicide, homelessness, bullying and rejection.

Less than three months after the formation of a controversial working group to deal with President Joe Biden, the U.S. bishops' conference has disbanded the group, which produced a public rupture among the hierarchy.

Faith leaders had called for revival of the office, lapsed under Trump, as crucial for providing the administration "substantial and timely communication with the faith community." Biden says it will serve a critical role in addressing COVID-19 recovery and systemic racism.

The Paycheck Protection Program helped keep church workers employed and serving hard-hit communities, according to Catholic pastors and finance experts, countering an AP report they say mischaracterizes church finances.

For many Americans, Donald Trump will be remembered as the "fake news" president for his constant lambasting of the media. Among those who supported him with vigor: fake nuns.

A U.S. bishops' conference working group to deal with the Biden administration does not include President Joe Biden's longtime bishop in Delaware nor his new local bishop in Washington, D.C. The group has met virtually twice.

The two-page letter calls for restoring asylum at the border, pursuing policies that promote the protection of those on the move rather than deterrence measures, and a new comprehensive immigration policy.

When President Joe Biden attended Mass Jan. 24, he heard a homily that was a plea for his fellow Catholics to see opposition to the death penalty as essential to the church's pro-life stance.

The Vatican is more than 4,000 miles away from the White House, but on Wednesday it was much closer to the nation's second Catholic president than the leadership of the U.S. hierarchy. 

In the roughly 48-hour period of Joe Biden's inaugural events, there will be no shortage of Catholic signs and symbolism. Some were already on display upon Biden’s arrival in the nation's capital Jan. 19.   

If personnel is policy, as the old D.C. adage says, then Catholics fretting about how Biden's administration might treat the church may be misguided. More than one-third of his incoming Cabinet are his fellow Catholics.

A statement sent to the priests of the diocese Jan. 14 said Fr. John Zuhlsdorf will relocate to "pursue other opportunities" and noted it was a mutual decision reached between Zuhlsdorf and Bishop Donald Hying.

People who work at Catholic agencies that resettle refugees in the U.S. are optimistic they can rebuild programs that were diminished during Trump administration caps on arrivals.

As the U.S. Capitol was taken over by insurrectionists on Jan. 6 seeking to disrupt the certification of the Electoral College votes to formally declare Joe Biden the winner of the presidential election, a number of Catholic bishops took to Twitter to call for prayer and peace.

Fr. Leo O'Donovan, former president of Georgetown University, confirmed to NCR that he had accepted the invitation to offer the prayer Jan. 20, which will mark the election of the nation's second Catholic president.

When the Rev. Raphael Warnock arrives in Washington to take his Senate seat, he is likely to be welcomed by a collaborator from his home state of Georgia: the city's archbishop, Cardinal Wilton Gregory.