Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic is a K'iche Maya teacher and community leader in Guatemala. She talked with EarthBeat about being a defender of the environment and about being persecuted for trying to maintain a way of life for her people that is close to the land.
Movie review: In a time that has exposed the horrors of class and race inequality, "The White Tiger" is a breath of fresh air, with its story of a poor Indian antihero willing to climb the social ladder at all costs.
The Supreme Court is telling California that it can't enforce coronavirus-related restrictions that have limited home-based religious worship including Bible studies and prayer meetings.
We say: The most basic and universal way that nearly everyone or at least the largest possible number of Americans can participate in public life — as Gaudium et Spes says is necessary — is by voting. Why try to reduce participation?
The Supreme Court is telling California that it can't enforce coronavirus-related restrictions that have limited home-based religious worship including Bible studies and prayer meetings.
Young Voices: Christ's resurrection is more than a symbol of faith; it's a model of rebirth for all of us. It shows the resilience of God — and of God in humanity — during a time of violence and turmoil.
Distinctly Catholic: The West Virginia senator's op-ed against eliminating the filibuster may be sincere, and it may be true to some of the Senate's finest traditions. But it is misplaced and counterproductive.
A former campus minister at Franciscan University of Steubenville has been charged with rape and sexual battery against an individual with mental illness placed under his care for mental health treatment.
An independent investigation of sexual misconduct allegations against Catholic composer David Haas in the years he held summer music programs at St. Catherine University in St. Paul shows that some members of Haas' Music Ministry Alive team found his conduct uncomfortable, or were aware of "general comments" about his behavior.
President Joe Biden signed an executive order April 9 announcing the formation of a commission to look into possible reforms to the Supreme Court, including expansions and term limits.
Distinctly Catholic: The West Virginia senator's op-ed against eliminating the filibuster may be sincere, and it may be true to some of the Senate's finest traditions. But it is misplaced and counterproductive.
Increasing vocations to the priesthood, improving the way laypeople and priests work together and ensuring that service, not power, motivates the request for ordination are all possible outcomes of a major symposium being planned by the Vatican in February 2022.
Australian Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, a longtime Vatican diplomat and former president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, died April 10 at the age of 96 in Newcastle, Australia.
NCR Connections: As I talk to friends, family and colleagues about what parish life will look like after coronavirus, a consensus is emerging that "they're not coming back" — or at least not in the numbers before the pandemic.
Pope Francis has appointed Fr. Daniel J. Felton, a priest of the Diocese of Green Bay, Wisconsin, and its vicar general, to head the Diocese of Duluth, Minnesota.
LGBTQ Catholics are still processing the recent denial of church blessings to people in same-sex unions. Many are also watching a Supreme Court case that continues a national debate over LGBTQ rights versus claims of religious liberty.
Mark Colville, part of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 anti-nuclear activists, was sentenced April 9 to 21 months in federal prison for conspiracy, destruction of property on a naval installation, depredation of government property and trespassing.
Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic is a K'iche Maya teacher and community leader in Guatemala. She talked with EarthBeat about being a defender of the environment and about being persecuted for trying to maintain a way of life for her people that is close to the land.
Aura Lolita Chávez Ixcaquic es maestra y lideresa maya k'iche de Guatemala. Habló con EarthBeat de su labor en defensa del medio ambiente y la persecución que sufre por mantener para su pueblo un modelo de vida vinculado a la tierra.
Book review: With Why Solange Matters, London-based Stephanie Phillips (music journalist and frontwoman of the punk trio Big Joanie) gives voice to all the listeners, journalists and fellow creatives whose art owes its change to Solange Knowles.
Book review: Written in 1993 and set in the 2020s, The Parable of the Sower shares a common thread with Catholic social teaching: the spark of hope that we can survive amid catastrophe and do this by caring for our communities.
Australian Cardinal Edward I. Cassidy, a longtime Vatican diplomat and former president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, died April 10 at the age of 96 in Newcastle, Australia.
LGBTQ Catholics are still processing the recent denial of church blessings to people in same-sex unions. Many are also watching a Supreme Court case that continues a national debate over LGBTQ rights versus claims of religious liberty.
Like the disciples, who experienced Jesus' divine mercy after the resurrection, all Christians are called to become missionaries, sharing the Gospel of God's love and mercy with others, Pope Francis said.
Increasing vocations to the priesthood, improving the way laypeople and priests work together and ensuring that service, not power, motivates the request for ordination are all possible outcomes of a major symposium being planned by the Vatican in February 2022.
Television review: "Schitt's Creek," a comedy that has you alternately laughing and crying, shows how the suffering we endure can become pathway into empathy and outreach to another human being who suffers.
The Associated Church Press and the Religion Communicators Council have recognized Global Sisters Report and National Catholic Reporter for work in 2020, including reporting, columns and book reviews.
Television review: "Schitt's Creek," a comedy that has you alternately laughing and crying, shows how the suffering we endure can become pathway into empathy and outreach to another human being who suffers.
The Associated Church Press and the Religion Communicators Council have recognized Global Sisters Report and National Catholic Reporter for work in 2020, including reporting, columns and book reviews.
When nativist powers like the Ku Klux Klan and the Oregon governor confronted the religious community of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary in the 1920s over schools, the ensuing case set the precedent for how children are educated in the U.S. today.
