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June 8, 2023

Pope Francis 'alert' and resting well on day after hernia operation

Christopher White

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The Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence show their support during the gay pride parade in West Hollywood, California, June 12, 2016. (AP/Richard Vogel,File)

In Focus

Actual sisters react to LA Dodgers and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

Much ink has been spilled over the Dodgers honoring a charity group that dresses in drag and habits. NCR Executive Editor Heidi Schlumpf asked sisters who have ministered in the LGBTQ community what they thought.

Heidi Schlumpf

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NCR Voices

Actual sisters react to LA Dodgers and Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence

ByHeidi Schlumpf

Taylor Swift performs during the opener of her "Eras Tour" on March 17 in Glendale, Arizona. (AP/Ashley Landis)

What the Catholic Church can learn from Taylor Swift

The church continues to pit universal principles against young people's unique problems. But, as Taylor Swift can attest, particularity, uniqueness and personal experience are profound sources for universal truths.

ByAmirah Orozco

Pope Francis smiles and waves as he stands in the open window of his apartment

Pope asks Catholics to welcome everyone, create communion

The Holy Spirit invites the faithful to share in God's love and to make the church a loving home whose door is open to everyone, Pope Francis said.

ByCarol Glatz, Catholic News Service

Pope Francis has named two-thirds of cardinals eligible to elect his successor

Pope Francis awake and recovering in hospital following three-hour intestinal operation

Rainn Wilson, who played Dwight on 'The Office,' wants a spiritual revolution

Opinion

Carole Sargent

'Responsible obedience includes refusal': Drew Christiansen's legacy on conscience in a nuclear age

Guest Voices

Tim O'Donnell

Should Catholics support the striking Hollywood writers?

Guest Voices

A rosary is pictured hanging from a machine gun in an undated file photo as Ukrainian soldiers stand at their positions near the Ukrainian town of Pervomaysk. (OSV News/Reuters/Gleb Garanich)

Michael Sean Winters

Mercenaries, migrants and morals in Ukraine: What Catholic theology has to say

NCR Voices

Just war theory is capable of adaptation and development to address new nightmares, columnist Michael Sean Winters took away from a panel at the recent College Theology Society conference.

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to recent opinions on the upcoming 2024 presidential election.

Vatican

Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip: Francis is visited by a friendly face while recovering in the hospital.

Pat Marrin

Matteo Bruni, director of the Vatican Press Office, looks at Dr. Sergio Alfieri, a chief surgeon at Rome's Gemelli's hospital, who operated on Pope Francis June 7, 2023, and speaks to reporters at the hospital as seen in this screengrab of the news conference broadcast live by Vatican Media. Alfieri said the pope was recoverying well from a three-hour surgery for a hernia. (CNS screengrab/Courtesy Vatican Media)

Pope Francis 'alert' and resting well on day after hernia operation

Pope Francis continues to recover well and is showing signs of progress, the Vatican said on June 8, one day after the pope successfully underwent a three-hour operation to repair a hernia.

ByChristopher White

View from the Vatican

Anatomy of a papal health scare — and mixed Vatican messages

NCR's Vatican correspondent Christopher White analyzes how the Vatican's communication and public relations apparatus handles news of Pope Francis' health.

ByChristopher White

A statue of St. John Paul II is seen in the courtyard of Rome's Gemelli Hospital March 30, 2023, where Pope Francis was admitted March 29 due to concerns over breathing difficulties. He was diagnosed with a "respiratory infection," according to the Vatican. A March 30 update from the Vatican said the pope was "steadily improving" and continuing his planned course of treatment. (OSV News photo/Remo Casilli, Reuters)

Pope Francis awake and recovering in hospital following three-hour intestinal operation

Pope Francis on June 7 successfully underwent a three-hour intestinal surgery that the Vatican described as taking place without complications.

ByChristopher White

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Viewpoints

New science on ecological justice demands united response from US Catholics

"Safe and just" boundaries for planetary health would protect not just the average person, but the person who is most vulnerable to disaster. American Catholics are called to lead the response to this science.

Reba Elliott

Officials with shovel prepare to plant trees

Faith

Kenya diocese's coffee farm spreads conservation skills to local community

Established to facilitate evangelization, Nyeri Hill Farm, owned by the Catholic Archdiocese of Nyeri, has expanded its goals to focus heavily on forest restoration and environmental conservation.

ByShadrack Omuka

The U.S. Capitol is seen in Washington Aug. 6, 2022. (CNS/Reuters/Ken Cedeno)

ByMarybeth Christie Redmond

With Franciscan sisters' $1.5 million gift, Network to take on climate lobbying

Thanks to a recent donation from the Franciscan Sisters of Perpetual Adoration, Network Lobby for Catholic Social Justice will expand its lobbying portfolio on Capitol Hill to include climate advocacy.

Pope Francis joins others in holding a banner during an audience at the Vatican June 5, 2023, with the organizers of the Green & Blue Festival. The banner calls for financing a "loss and damage" fund that was agreed upon at the COP27 U.N. climate conference in 2022.

Faith

Pope: Quick change of course necessary to beat climate change

A faster change of course away from today's throwaway culture and toward greater care for the common good is necessary to ensure the planet's livability for future generations, Pope Francis said on World Environment Day, June 5.

ByJustin McLellan, Catholic News Service

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Culture

President Abraham Lincoln, photographed by Mathew Brady during the American Civil War (U.S. National Archives)

'Lincoln's God' holds magnifying glass to Civil War president's faith

Book review: In Lincoln's God, Joshua Zeitz writes a compelling chronicle of Lincoln's evolving relationship to faith against a backdrop of events that influenced the Great Emancipator as much as he influenced them.

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What the Catholic Church can learn from Taylor Swift

ByAmirah Orozco

Bayard Rustin, left, is pictured in 1964; Dorothy Day is seen in a 1935 file photo. (Library of Congress/World Telegram & Sun photo/Ed Ford; CNS/Courtesy of Marquette University Archives)

'War by Other Means' highlights 4 pacifists who resisted World War II

A young Catholic Worker reviews the book War by Other Means in light of the ethic of nonviolence that has shaped her faith.

ByAllyson Winter-Polman

Amsterdam Jews await deportation to the Nazi transit camp in Westerbork, the Netherlands, on June 20, 1943. A member of the German Security Police can be seen at right. (Wikimedia Commons/Netwerk Oorlogsbronnen/Herman Heukels)

'The Diary Keepers' provides a glimpse into Dutch life under Nazi occupation

Book review: Nina Siegal's The Diary Keepers presents readers with translated excerpts from journals penned principally by seven Dutch diarists, tracking their lives as the five-year German occupation unfolded.

ByChris Herlinger

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