Peter Feuerherd

The Field Hospital: Carolyn Winfrey Gillette writes hymns about gun violence. After the mass shooting in Parkland, Florida, Gillette shared her work on Facebook, and her message resonated with users. 

The Field Hospital: A recent book on the Irish American Catholic experience; Friday fish fry tradition; Baltimore church celebrates its history; deportations threaten existence of churches in Texas

The Field Hospital: In the wake of #MeToo, activists hope to extend New York's time limit for child sex abuse victims to file charges or sue. The church is among those lobbying against that change.

New York – The Vatican’s troubleshooter for high profile sex abuse cases took testimony today in Manhattan from a victim who says a Chilean bishop, whom Pope Francis has defended, witnessed his abuse and ignored it. 

The Field Hospital: Parishes under the Society of Jesus Christ the Priest are the diocese's traditionalist centerpieces, as some wonder if Francis' optimism will ever reach southwest Wisconsin.

The Field Hospital: Parishes may not be doing required paperwork that complies with norms to combat sex abuse; Why Fr. James Martin was disinvited from NJ speaking event; Priest's attacker makes ugly accusation

The Field Hospital: NCR continues coverage of the archdiocesan-level encuentros with a report from western Oregon. There is a new urgency to reach the estimated 60 percent who are of Latino background among 431,000 Catholics here.

Ross Douthat and Massimo Faggioli usually keep their debates about Pope Francis confined to cyberspace, but Jan. 31, they took their arguments person-to-person at Fordham University for a crowd of about 300.

National Catholic Schools Week: Loyola School's Global Initiatives program permeates the preparatory school curriculum, developing its students into citizens prepared to be active in the world.

The Field Hospital: Illinois dioceses plan school and parish closings; flu affects Eucharist, sign of peace; connecting with young adults in Pittsburgh; 20 years of perpetual adoration.

The Field Hospital: As priests' numbers decline, a resolution adopted by the Association of U.S. Catholic Priests endorses enlisting the aid of laypeople and deacons for day-to-day parish administration.

The Field Hospital: Online fundraiser works for NYC fire victims; parish schools suffering from falling enrollment; two immigrant stories; tips to improve the Rite of Christian Initiation of Adults

The Field Hospital: Religious educator and author John Roberto says the changing nature of the modern family means that religious educators need to interact via creative means.

The Field Hospital: In Waterbury, Connecticut, six churches were combined into All Saints Parish, which has brought together the city's Latino Catholics and older parishioners of European heritage.

The Field Hospital: Mother, children find sanctuary at Episcopalian church; Ohio priest kills himself amid allegations; pastor is returned to parish after panel deems abuse accusations not credible

The Field Hospital: The reality of deportation was an underlying theme of the meeting at Sacred Heart Seminary Dec. 9, a part of the national V Encuentro process, which brings together Latino and Hispanic Catholics to discuss their lives, struggles and faith.

Two titans of theological public discourse came together in front of a packed house at the Sheen Center here Dec. 13. New York Times columnist Ross Douthat and Jesuit Fr. James Martin discussed how theological argument can be made in the public sphere.

"It is not easy to be in the middle, and to be loyal to both ends of the spectrum, to belong to the church of orthodoxy and yet also to minister in the world of the unorthodox. It truly involves being, as the saying goes, between a rock and the hard place."

The Field Hospital: Embezzlement and affairs not covered up; Springfield has tithing recommendations; why repealing the Johnson Amendment is dangerous for church and state; former church sites turn into social service centers

The Field Hospital: Churches are vulnerable, says one security expert, "because they invite the public and want to reach out to those with hurts."