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Aug 5, 2020

In light of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic and social and environmental crises worldwide, Pope Francis announced he would begin a new series of general audience talks aimed at helping build "the future that we need."

Explosion in Beirut adds suffering to Lebanon's dire situation

by Dale Gavlak, Catholic News Service

Aug 4, 2020

Hospitals in the Lebanese capital are overwhelmed with those suffering injuries from a massive explosion in Beirut's port, causing widespread damage the city and rocking the tiny Mediterranean nation already devastated by the coronavirus and its worst financial crisis since the 1975–1990 civil war.

Protesters rally for Terry Gonda, a married lesbian who was fired from her role as music director at St. John Fisher Chapel University Parish in Auburn Hills, Michigan. (Between the Lines/Ellen Shanna Knoppow)

Pastoral change, new oratory spark dissent at suburban Detroit parish

by Matt Jachman

Aug 4, 2020

St. John Fisher parishioners have experienced abrupt changes, including the arrival of two priests who are establishing an oratory and the dismissal of the church's popular music director, who is in a same-sex marriage.

Coronavirus

In light of pandemic, pope will begin new series on social doctrine

Aug 5, 2020

Catholic schools plan in-person classes, in contrast to public schools

by Alexander Thompson

Aug 5, 2020

While state orders have forced some Catholic dioceses to abandon their more assertive approach to reopening schools, other dioceses are using the divergence from online public schools as a marketing point.

Francis, the comic strip

Aug 4, 2020

'Not out of this yet': Nursing homes face ongoing threat of COVID-19

by Sarah Salvadore

Aug 3, 2020

Zimbabwe's bishops say coronavirus disruptions an opportunity for rediscovery

by Tawanda Karombo

Aug 1, 2020

Nearly one-third of Brazilian bishops sign letter critical of government

by Lisa Alves, Catholic News Service

Jul 31, 2020

Opinion

Column | Faith Seeking Understanding

The importance and challenge of doing nothing

by Daniel P. Horan

Aug 5, 2020

Faith Seeking Understanding: American society has long been skeptical of or outright hostile to anything that seems lazy or frivolous, but doing nothing is about reordering one's priorities, values, worldview, commitments and energies.

Pro-life activists gather outside the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington June 29. (CNS/Reuters/Carlos Barria)

Commentary

AOC could do more for women by opposing abortion

by Gloria Purvis

Aug 5, 2020

Commentary: Feminism says that in healthy human relationships everyone has rights, and no one should fear subordination or abuse. I implore Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez to extend that to include our unborn daughters.

Book Review

'The Risk of the Cross' reckons with our nuclear danger

by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy

Aug 5, 2020

Blog | NCR Today

Copy Desk Daily, Aug. 5, 2020

by Mick Forgey

Aug 5, 2020

Column | Signs of the Times

Catholic bishops reprimand Trump as often as they praise him

by Thomas Reese, Religion News Service

Aug 4, 2020

Column | Grace on the Margins

Progressive millennials offer the church much hope and promise

by Jamie Manson

Aug 4, 2020

Accountability

Citing major decline in revenue, Camden Diocese suspends survivor payments

Aug 3, 2020

Citing "a precipitous decline" in revenue due to COVID-19, the Diocese of Camden announced July 31 it is putting a moratorium on any future decisions or payments to abuse survivors through its Independent Victim Compensation Program.

Pa. archdiocese pays out or approves over $50 million for survivors so far

by Gina Christian, Catholic News Service

Jul 30, 2020

The Archdiocese of Philadelphia has paid out or approved over $50 million so far to 222 clergy sex abuse survivors, according to a new report from the Independent Reconciliation and Reparations Program. IRRP was launched in November 2018 as a means of providing settlements to claimants alleging abuse by archdiocesan clergy.

Via Instagram, Catholic colleges face a racial reckoning

by Jesse Remedios

Jul 29, 2020

Catholic music publisher vows investigation into Haas as allegations mount

by Christopher White

Jul 27, 2020

Franciscans grapple with colonial legacy of Junípero Serra

by Sarah Salvadore

Jul 24, 2020

New accusation surfaces against former US prelate McCarrick

by Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service

Jul 22, 2020

Politics

Commentary

AOC could do more for women by opposing abortion

by Gloria Purvis

Aug 5, 2020

Signs of the Times

Catholic bishops reprimand Trump as often as they praise him

by Thomas Reese, Religion News Service

Aug 4, 2020

Many Americans assume the U.S. Catholic bishops are diehard supporters of Donald Trump. True, when it comes to pro-life issues and religious freedom, the bishops are in Trump's corner, but on several issues, they strongly criticize the administration.

Supreme Court declines request to stop border wall construction

by Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service

Aug 3, 2020

HUD's proposed fair housing rule should be withdrawn, say Catholic leaders

by Julie Asher, Catholic News Service

Jul 31, 2020

Abortion: Discuss, don't debate

by Michael Sean Winters

Jul 31, 2020

Your thoughts on AOC as the future of the Catholic Church

by NCR Staff

Jul 31, 2020

Vatican

In light of pandemic, pope will begin new series on social doctrine

Aug 5, 2020

Pope names U.S.-based finance executive to secretariat for the economy

Aug 4, 2020

Pope Francis has named a U.S.-based executive from Spain to be general secretary of the Secretariat for the Economy.

Francis, the comic strip

Aug 4, 2020

Report: Retired Pope Benedict XVI ill after visit to Germany

by The Associated Press

Aug 3, 2020

Seven years later, still no trace of Jesuit priest kidnapped in Syria

by Claire Giangrave, Religion News Service

Jul 30, 2020

Parishes are not 'businesses' that can be led by anyone, cardinal says

Jul 29, 2020

Quick Reads

Pope names U.S.-based finance executive to secretariat for the economy

Aug 4, 2020

Report: Retired Pope Benedict XVI ill after visit to Germany

by The Associated Press

Aug 3, 2020

Advocates demand ICE comply with order to release children in detention

Jul 29, 2020

U.S. data group: China hacked computers of Vatican, other church entities

Jul 29, 2020

Hunger organization pushes out Yoho after Capitol incident

by The Associated Press

Jul 27, 2020

French police arrest cathedral volunteer who confesses to Nantes fire

Jul 27, 2020

Parish

Grace on the Margins

Progressive millennials offer the church much hope and promise

by Jamie Manson

Aug 4, 2020

Grace on the Margins: For All Who Hunger: Searching for Communion in a Shattered World, is an inspiring answer to the question I have been getting for over a decade: Why aren't young people interested in the church?

Pastoral change, new oratory spark dissent at suburban Detroit parish

by Matt Jachman

Aug 4, 2020

Parishes are not 'businesses' that can be led by anyone, cardinal says

Jul 29, 2020

Jesuits to leave historic New Mexico parish after 152 years of staffing it

Jul 29, 2020

Christ statue vandalized at Florida church among latest attacks on statues

Faith Seeking Understanding

Jul 21, 2020

COVID-19 takes toll on immigrant, refugee communities in Nashville Diocese

by Andy Telli, Catholic News Service

Jul 21, 2020

World

Explosion in Beirut adds suffering to Lebanon's dire situation

by Dale Gavlak, Catholic News Service

Aug 4, 2020

Bishops from Japan, U.S. call Catholics to work for nuclear disarmament

by Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service

Aug 4, 2020

The path to true peace requires the world to abolish nuclear weapons, an American bishop and a Japanese archbishop said as the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombings at the end of World War II approached.

John Hume, who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland, dies at 83

by Michael Kelly, Catholic News Service

Aug 3, 2020

Nicaraguan bishops denounce Managua cathedral arson attack as 'terrorism'

by David Agren, Catholic News Service

Aug 3, 2020

Zimbabwe's bishops say coronavirus disruptions an opportunity for rediscovery

by Tawanda Karombo

Aug 1, 2020

Disappearance of Chinese bishop is subject of congressional hearing

by Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service

Jul 31, 2020

Justice

Commentary

AOC could do more for women by opposing abortion

by Gloria Purvis

Aug 5, 2020

Q & A with Sr. Barbara Moore on US civil rights struggles 55 years after Selma

by Carol K. Coburn

Aug 4, 2020

Sr. Barbara Moore was among a group of Catholic sisters (and one of only two Black sisters) who went to Selma, Alabama, in March 1965 to protest the inequality of voting rights for Black Americans.

Calling out racism, El Paso bishop forms commission a year after massacre

by Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service

Aug 3, 2020

Catholic school employees have a choice to make, now that their protection is in peril

by Matt Tedeschi

Aug 3, 2020

Sr. Patricia Chappell has long been a leader. Now she's being honored for it

by Soli Salgado

Aug 3, 2020

HUD's proposed fair housing rule should be withdrawn, say Catholic leaders

by Julie Asher, Catholic News Service

Jul 31, 2020

EarthBeat

How to help the pandemic-stricken Amazon? 'Amazonize yourself,' says new campaign

by Brian Roewe

Aug 4, 2020

A new campaign, called "Amazoniza-te," or "Amazonize yourself," seeks to raise awareness of the many ways that COVID-19, the disease caused by the novel coronavirus, endangers communities and forests in the globally critical biome.

Barbara Fraser on the Marañón River in Peru, where she traveled on the river boat, Titanic V, during a visit to Kukama indigenous communities in July 2014

EB Weekly: EarthBeat gets a big boost in funding and a new editor

by Bill Mitchell

Jul 31, 2020

Franciscan Sisters give NCR $1.5 million to help endow EarthBeat and "wake up the world;" Barbara Fraser named NCR climate editor

Franciscan Sisters give NCR $1.5 million to help 'wake up the world'

by NCR Staff

Jul 31, 2020

'We will live and die with you,' cardinal tells virtual Amazon assembly

by Mary Durran, Catholic News Service

Jul 30, 2020

Brazilian church campaign draws attention to threats against advocates

by Lise Alves, Catholic News Service

Jul 30, 2020

How the global climate fight could be lost if Trump is reelected

by Oliver Milman, The Guardian

Jul 30, 2020

Books

'The Risk of the Cross' reckons with our nuclear danger

by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy

Aug 5, 2020

Book review: Art Laffin's newly revised The Risk of the Cross finds in the Gospel of Mark a vitalizing and nonviolent theology that is chillingly relevant on this 75th anniversary of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

In new book, 30 evangelicals argue against Trump

by Bill Tammeus

Jul 29, 2020

Book review: While these essays make the case against President Donald Trump, in the end they are less about the president and his policies than they are about evangelicals and their abandonment of principle.

Dynamic history of US church threads this book on sainthood

by Mary Beth Fraser Connolly

Jul 22, 2020

New book on truth is excellent resource during coronavirus pandemic

by Sr. Rose Pacatte

Jul 15, 2020

Book interweaves eucharistic practice with social, economic and ecological realities

by Marian Ronan

Jul 8, 2020

New book urges white Christians to assess their 'abuses of faith'

by Robert Shine

Jul 1, 2020

People

The importance and challenge of doing nothing

by Daniel P. Horan

Aug 5, 2020

Catholic schools plan in-person classes, in contrast to public schools

by Alexander Thompson

Aug 5, 2020

'The Risk of the Cross' reckons with our nuclear danger

by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy

Aug 5, 2020

Pastoral change, new oratory spark dissent at suburban Detroit parish

by Matt Jachman

Aug 4, 2020

Progressive millennials offer the church much hope and promise

by Jamie Manson

Aug 4, 2020

Q & A with Sr. Barbara Moore on US civil rights struggles 55 years after Selma

by Carol K. Coburn

Aug 4, 2020

Spirituality

Pencil Preaching

Transfigured

Aug 5, 2020

Pencil Preaching for Thursday, August 6, 2020

Pencil Preaching

Even Jesus needed to learn. White Christians can, too.

Aug 4, 2020

Pencil Preaching for Wednesday, August 5, 2020

Why not to worry

by Patrick Jephson

Aug 4, 2020

Blind guides

Aug 3, 2020

Water walker

Aug 2, 2020

Give them yourselves

Aug 1, 2020

Theology

Fr. Roger Karban (Celebration file photo)

Fr. Roger Karban, contributor to NCR's Scripture for Life, dies at age 80

Jul 28, 2020

Appreciation: A priest of the Belleville Diocese and a master storyteller, Fr. Roger Karban made the Scriptures come alive in his writings for Celebration, NCR's worship resource.

Ahead of third execution, church leaders urged clemency or delay

by Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service

Jul 20, 2020

Prior to the July 17 execution of Dustin Honken, a 52-year-old man from Iowa, Catholic leaders, including the bishops of Iowa, Cardinal Joseph W. Tobin of Newark, New Jersey, and the Benedictine priest who had been Honken's spiritual adviser for 10 years, pleaded for a lesser sentence or at least a delay.

Old Testament can be a guide for coping during trauma, say Bible scholars