Women, in particular, have a lot at stake in the fight over health care. Yet in recent months, as leaders in Washington discussed the future of American health care, women were not always allowed in the room.
The Field Hospital: Participants from groups such as Catholic Church Reform International and Call to Action will be urging an increased role for the laity in the church.
Young Voices: The clash between my vision of gardening and my reality forces me to face, not for the first time, an unpleasant truth: I am far too prone to the self-serving workaholism so prized in our culture.
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.
Australian priests and a bishop have said they would go to jail rather than break the seal of confession to report a person confessing to child sexual abuse. Keiran Tapsell says the issue can resolved with a change to canon law.
NCR Today: NCR urges Catholics to 'expel the poison of racism'; Is the presidency cracking up? Will Trump resign? Dominican sisters led a (timely) discussion on truth; Catholic marriages in Scotland hit all time low.
Officials from the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri, face criticism as they try to balance a papal call to welcome those in "irregular" family situations with upholding church teachings.
The Field Hospital: Participants from groups such as Catholic Church Reform International and Call to Action will be urging an increased role for the laity in the church.
Today when our unity is tested, when our basic truths of faith and reason are violated, as people of faith and as citizens we must uphold our ideas and ideals.
Women, in particular, have a lot at stake in the fight over health care. Yet in recent months, as leaders in Washington discussed the future of American health care, women were not always allowed in the room.
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.
Conflict and drought are threatening more than 20 million people in four countries with the prospect of famine, and the U.N. has called this the largest humanitarian crisis since the world body was formed.
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.
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.
Young Voices: The clash between my vision of gardening and my reality forces me to face, not for the first time, an unpleasant truth: I am far too prone to the self-serving workaholism so prized in our culture.
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.
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.
