Scripture for Life: It takes faith to put our whole heart into praying, "Lord, let us see your kindness." It takes audacious trust to let go of our expectations and dare to accept the salvation God offers.
Your thoughts: Each month, NCR gathers up a sampling of letters to the editor from our readers in response to articles and columns that appear on NCRonline. This week, we will focus on letters received in June 2020.
On July 28, more than 60 people, including more than half a dozen clergy members, journeyed as part of a "prayer pilgrimage for Black lives and racial equity" to three sites in southeastern Virginia where Confederate monuments stood for more than a century.
In unusually direct terms for an American church leader, Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, publicly criticized President Donald Trump during a July 31 webinar.
Though the pandemic has been "overwhelming, and everyone has had to adjust to a new way of living," women religious, like everybody else, find a sense of balance by looking outside themselves.
U.S. Catholic colleges and universities will face unprecedented economic strain and dramatically altered campus life this semester as they impose health and safety measures.
Decolonizing Faith and Society: Death and deadliness seem to be all around us with no way out. Consider the idea of receptive generosity, which draws us into intimate, infinite sensitivity for all creation.
Says one leader of Catholics for Change in Our Church, "I don't think they've made progress since the grand jury" — the 2018 report that uncovered widespread clerical sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses.
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.
In unusually direct terms for an American church leader, Bishop John Stowe of Lexington, Kentucky, publicly criticized President Donald Trump during a July 31 webinar.
Some of the country's most prominent church leaders appealed to congressional negotiators to include financial support for families to continue to send their children to Catholic and non-public schools in a coronavirus relief bill currently being negotiated.
For peace to flourish, weapons of war must be set aside, especially nuclear weapons that can obliterate entire cities and countries, Pope Francis said on the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima.
Says one leader of Catholics for Change in Our Church, "I don't think they've made progress since the grand jury" — the 2018 report that uncovered widespread clerical sexual abuse in six Pennsylvania dioceses.
Archbishop Joseph Mitsuaki Takami of Nagasaki, said, "I have the impression that most Americans believe that arms are necessary to protect oneself, one's families and the nation. The history, however, demonstrates how arms brought about tragedies. I want the Americans to work for peace without the possession and use of weapons."
Commentary: On the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan, NCR shares an address given during a Vatican conference Nov. 10, 2017, from Wada Masako, a survivor of Nagasaki's bombing on Aug. 9, 1945. The first atomic bombing was of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.
On July 28, more than 60 people, including more than half a dozen clergy members, journeyed as part of a "prayer pilgrimage for Black lives and racial equity" to three sites in southeastern Virginia where Confederate monuments stood for more than a century.
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.
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.
Though the pandemic has been "overwhelming, and everyone has had to adjust to a new way of living," women religious, like everybody else, find a sense of balance by looking outside themselves.
U.S. Catholic colleges and universities will face unprecedented economic strain and dramatically altered campus life this semester as they impose health and safety measures.
Decolonizing Faith and Society: Death and deadliness seem to be all around us with no way out. Consider the idea of receptive generosity, which draws us into intimate, infinite sensitivity for all creation.
Scripture for Life: It takes faith to put our whole heart into praying, "Lord, let us see your kindness." It takes audacious trust to let go of our expectations and dare to accept the salvation God offers.
The creator of "Homeless Jesus," 50-year-old Canadian sculptor Timothy Schmalz, says he aims for his work to disturb the comfortable and maybe provide a little comfort to the marginalized people he depicts in his work.
The Los Angeles auxiliary bishop and Word on Fire founder invited a group of Catholic media professionals for a July 29 Zoom meeting to discuss "disturbing trends in the online Catholic world."
Though the pandemic has been "overwhelming, and everyone has had to adjust to a new way of living," women religious, like everybody else, find a sense of balance by looking outside themselves.
A Place to Call Home - Mercy Housing grew from managing an initial 310 units in Omaha in the 1980s to now serving nearly 50,000 residents across the U.S. A new strategic plan developed, focused on making residents' needs the heart of everything the organization does. That focus has become more important with the coronavirus pandemic, which worsened just as Mercy Housing was rolling out the strategic plan.
