International Catholic peace organization Pax Christi calls on U.S. and North Korean leaders to tone down their rhetoric, saying the recent bout of nuclear brinksmanship "should be relegated to the dustbin of history."
Simply Spirit: Despite what my overachieving messiah complex tells me, it is not my responsibility to save the world. That belongs to a God who is infinite and incomprehensible love.
Pope Francis did not change church teaching on the rules for receiving Communion, but rather assured people who are in difficult situations that the church cares for them and the mercy of God extends to them, a Nigerian cardinal said.
More than 4,000 religious leaders have signed a letter urging Congress to maintain the Johnson Amendment, a law barring pulpit politicking that President Trump has vowed to gut.
The release of the 2016 International Religious Freedom Report, in its 19th year, comes as Trump has been accused of exacerbating hostility toward Muslims and hesitating to condemn white supremacism and anti-Semitism within his own nation.
Washington may be a swamp and the White House at new lows, but this summer the D.C. team, the Nationals, romps on a field of dreams. Homers are common, whiffs rare.
NCR Interview: Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala said Aug. 11 that recent discussions with the Vatican gave him hope that Pope Francis will be able to visit South Sudan next year.
The Field Hospital: 'Tiny house' project shelters homeless women in Portland; 'destination parishes' reflect trends; Youth from Oahu, Hawaii, gather to discuss church involvement
The Field Hospital: The "Midvale Diocese" shared an intense transition discussion meeting where leaders worked out mergers and other changes, so others could learn from the process.
Simply Spirit: Despite what my overachieving messiah complex tells me, it is not my responsibility to save the world. That belongs to a God who is infinite and incomprehensible love.
The Archdiocese of Mexico City said it reported six cases of priests accused of sexually abusing minors to prosecutors between 2010 and 2017, following a change in the law requiring such crimes to be brought to the authorities' attention.
Two organizations are co-sponsoring an online petition urging that Paul Shanley be placed in a secure facility where he can receive treatment and where he will have no access to children.
Book Review: Czeslaw Milosz did not consider himself to be a Catholic poet. But in his later years, he noted that all of his thinking had a religious aspect, and in that sense, he said, his poetry was also religious
Book Review: Archbishop Charles Chaput's new book, Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World, is strange indeed — full of relentlessly pessimistic, sweeping claims.
NCR Interview: Bishop Eduardo Hiiboro Kussala said Aug. 11 that recent discussions with the Vatican gave him hope that Pope Francis will be able to visit South Sudan next year.
Church leaders from Oceania, meeting in New Zealand to discuss protecting the oceans, also served meals to the homeless and met with Pacific Islander high school students.
LCWR 2017: "You're already started toward transformation," the new presidential triumvirate is told. "The horizon has come home: It is here in the body, and in each one of you."
Fostering vocations to the priesthood and religious life is the "biggest challenge" for the Catholic Church in China, said Passionist Fr. Robert Carbonneau, executive director of the U.S. Catholic China Bureau.
In his five-plus decades as a Capuchin friar, Fr. Michael Crosby talked and walked the language of conversion wherever he went, whether within the Catholic Church, the corridors of American industry or individuals' spiritual lives.
Simply Spirit: Despite what my overachieving messiah complex tells me, it is not my responsibility to save the world. That belongs to a God who is infinite and incomprehensible love.
Spiritual Reflections: We aren’t being asked to walk on water, but to act like we believe that God’s love for us and in us is more powerful than chaos, evil and apathy.
A small c catholic: Beliefs about ecclesiology and theology can evolve, and we find evidence of that in the striated layers of historical confessions in the Presbyterian constitution.
Distinctly Catholic: The Land O'Lakes document and John Paul II's Ex Corde Ecclesiae may represent ends of the pendulum's arc. But that is how humans walk through history.
Washington may be a swamp and the White House at new lows, but this summer the D.C. team, the Nationals, romps on a field of dreams. Homers are common, whiffs rare.
Movie review: In "Detroit," Oscar-winning director Kathryn Bigelow gives voice to the unheard in the 1967 Detroit uprising, inspiring both empathy and deeply felt outrage.
