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Jul 23, 2018

Column | Just Catholic

#MeToo, Your Excellency

by Phyllis Zagano

Jul 23, 2018

Archbishop Hunthausen was a man of prayer, a man of God

by Fr. Michael Ryan

Jul 23, 2018

Appreciation: Too often, the powers that be saw Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen as something of a firebrand, stubborn and unyielding; those of us who knew him saw him quite differently — saw him as fiercely faithful, uncommonly courageous, truly humble — the very definition of integrity.

Editorial

Editorial: Supporting women is key to pro-life agenda

by NCR Editorial Staff

Jul 20, 2018

We say: Overturning Roe vs. Wade won't end abortion. But addressing the pre-pregnancy needs of women and improving the post-birth life realities of mothers and their children will move us in the right direction toward a truly pro-life future.

Birth of an encyclical: Priest documents preparation of 'Humanae Vitae'

by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Jul 23, 2018

Documents in the Vatican Secret Archives and the archives of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith prove it was a "myth" that Blessed Paul VI largely set out on his own in writing Humanae Vitae, the 1968 encyclical on married love and the regulation of births.

Perspective

Gaza trip reveals daily struggles that families, doctors endure

by Patrick Whelan

Jul 21, 2018

Perspective: During a June visit to tour hospitals and clinics in Gaza, I saw firsthand the severe hardships that medical providers and families face in order to treat the children of the region.

Opinion

Blog

Morning Briefing

Jul 23, 2018

NCR Today: R.I.P. Archbishop Raymond Hunthausen. Tension and violence increase between Gaza and Israel. The latest on SCOTUS nominee Judge Kavanaugh. The Catholic #MeToo. Resources to explore Gaudete et Exsultate ("Rejoice and Be Glad").

Column | Just Catholic

#MeToo, Your Excellency

by Phyllis Zagano

Jul 23, 2018

Just Catholic: Fearing a bishop's power, no one wants to say anything. And it's not just clerics whose cries are muffled. It's lay employees and religious sisters who need their jobs.

Column | Distinctly Catholic

To have a future, Democrats must embrace moral and religious language

Jul 23, 2018

Perspective

Gaza trip reveals daily struggles that families, doctors endure

by Patrick Whelan

Jul 21, 2018

Column | Signs of the Times

Humanae Vitae: Sex and authority in the Catholic Church

by Thomas Reese, Religion News Service

Jul 20, 2018

Blog | NCR Today

Morning Briefing

Jul 20, 2018

Politics

Distinctly Catholic

To have a future, Democrats must embrace moral and religious language

Jul 23, 2018

One of the reasons Democratic campaigns fall flat is that their speechwriters and policy advisers cannot connect with Americans whose understanding of politics and culture is still shaped by religious idioms.

Editorial

Editorial: Supporting women is key to pro-life agenda

by NCR Editorial Staff

Jul 20, 2018

Souter's approach to Constitution parallels Ignatian discernment

by Brian Harper

Jul 19, 2018

Links for 7/17/18

Jul 17, 2018

President Trump shouldn't be nominating a Supreme Court justice

by Pat Perriello

Jul 16, 2018

Trump's NATO trip is a win for propaganda, not for diplomacy

Jul 16, 2018

Vatican

Birth of an encyclical: Priest documents preparation of 'Humanae Vitae'

by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Jul 23, 2018

Buried under scaffolding, Holy Stairs set for resurrection

by Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service

Jul 21, 2018

Vatican City: According to tradition, the Holy Stairs are the ones Jesus climbed when Pontius Pilate brought him before the crowd and handed him over to be crucified. It's said that Constantine's mother, St. Helen, brought the stairs to Rome from Jerusalem in 326 A.D.

Honduran bishop serving as deputy to Cardinal Rodriguez resigns after abuse allegations

Jul 20, 2018

Pope Francis reminds us of our call to be missionary disciples

Jul 20, 2018

Pope's quotes: Let us pray

by NCR Staff

Jul 20, 2018

Pope adds teen to list of saints to be declared during synod on youth

by Catholic News Service

Jul 19, 2018

Parish

Parishes must serve with presence during crises like mass shootings

Jul 19, 2018

The Field Hospital: Kathy Hendricks, an experienced parish minister who served parishioners in Littleton, Colorado, when the Columbine High School shooting took place in 1999, says parishes need to prepare for crises.

Via Christi Society Fr. Raymond Dzungwenen Tyohemba addresses participants in a June 29 discussion of Christian persecution in Nigeria held at San Francisco's Sts. Peter and Paul Parish.

Parish roundup: Plea from Nigeria; Alaska outreach; serving veterans

by Dan Morris-Young

Jul 18, 2018

The Field Hospital: Nigerian pastor describes "Christian genocide"; St. Cloud Catholic Charities files suit against its diocese; Montana priest's op-ed warns of "sea of incivility."

Clergy sex abuse revelations stun, anger Catholics in Buffalo

Jul 16, 2018

As traditional parishes decline, 'personal parishes' find new interest

Jul 12, 2018

Parish roundup: ministry for people with disabilities; a welcome for LGBTQ Catholics

Jul 11, 2018

Morning Briefing

Jul 9, 2018

World

Perspective

Gaza trip reveals daily struggles that families, doctors endure

by Patrick Whelan

Jul 21, 2018

Perspective: During a June visit to tour hospitals and clinics in Gaza, I saw firsthand the severe hardships that medical providers and families face in order to treat the children of the region.

Controversial law cements Israel's status as a Jewish state

by G. Jeffrey MacDonald, Religion News Service

Jul 19, 2018

In the wee hours of Thursday July 19, Israel's parliament, the Knesset, passed a controversial nation-state law that explicitly defines Israel as the "national home of the Jewish people."

Church leaders in Sudan's Nuba Mountains say they support the people

by Paul Jeffrey, Catholic News Service

Jul 19, 2018

Ireland adopts 100-percent fossil fuel divestment strategy

by Sarah Mac Donald

Jul 19, 2018

Church leaders weigh in as Zimbabwe's July 30 elections draw near

by Tawanda Karombo

Jul 18, 2018

Central African bishops distance themselves from group promising violence

by Fredrick Nzwili, Catholic News Service

Jul 17, 2018

Justice

Justice Action Bulletin: Seattle buses carry ads against nuclear weapons

by Maria Benevento

Jul 17, 2018

The latest news on active nonviolence: Ground Zero Center for Nonviolent Action draws attention to nuclear submarines; Catholic legal group calls to extend temporary protected status for Somalia, to Guatemala; observances planned for anniversaries of atomic bomb

Tennessee's Catholic bishops urge governor to halt upcoming executions

by Theresa Laurence, Catholic News Service

Jul 16, 2018

Bishops J. Mark Spalding of Nashville, Richard Stika of Knoxville and Martin Holley of Memphis have written to Gov. Bill Haslam urging him to "use your authority as governor to put an end to the fast-track executions planned" in the state of Tennessee in the upcoming months.

Catholic organizations playing role in reunification of children

by Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service

Jul 12, 2018

Update: Planned Nevada execution halted after use of lethal drug disputed

Updated

by Catholic News Service

Jul 10, 2018

Justice Action Bulletin: Gun violence protest shuts down Chicago highway

by Maria Benevento

Jul 10, 2018

My sister's memory brings trauma of child separation home

by Bill Tammeus

Jul 10, 2018

Environment

Ireland adopts 100-percent fossil fuel divestment strategy

by Sarah Mac Donald

Jul 19, 2018

Ireland made history July 12 when it became the first country in the world to pass a bill committing the country to the divestment of all of its holdings in fossil fuel companies.

Controversial climate fix poses new question: Is geoengineering playing God?

by Rosalie Chan, Religion News Service

Jul 17, 2018

Some organizations are urging religious groups to consider more controversial ways to avert climate catastrophe. One possible climate change solution in particular is getting more attention now: geoengineering.

The trauma of losing trees: a memorial

by Donna Schaper

Jul 10, 2018

State of Earth tomorrow depends on action today, pope tells activists

by Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service

Jul 6, 2018

It is vital to invest in the future of clean energy for all

by Tomás Insua, Lisa Jordan

Jul 5, 2018

Cardinal warns of 'possible collapse' of Earth's livability at Vatican event

Jul 5, 2018

Accountability

Just Catholic

#MeToo, Your Excellency

by Phyllis Zagano

Jul 23, 2018

Just Catholic: Fearing a bishop's power, no one wants to say anything. And it's not just clerics whose cries are muffled. It's lay employees and religious sisters who need their jobs.

Questions abound about SNAP's future

by Brian Roewe

Jul 23, 2018

After a flurry of leadership resignations, members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests gathered for their annual conference, and continued to navigate the advocacy group's transition.

Honduran bishop serving as deputy to Cardinal Rodriguez resigns after abuse allegations

Jul 20, 2018

A Catholic trifecta of disgrace: Next step in abuse saga is due

by Mary E. Hunt

Jul 20, 2018

Catholic #MeToo victims and advocates face backlash

by Heidi Schlumpf

Jul 17, 2018

The priesthood, celibacy and sex

by Thomas Reese, Religion News Service

Jul 16, 2018

Books

'Grace' author shares story of son's suicide

by Dan Morris-Young

Jul 18, 2018

Book Review: In a reader-friendly way, the book incorporates research, background and behavioral studies about suicide within the law enforcement world, and how police communities are coming to grips with how the high-tension realities of their work impact mental health.

Book review: Roman burial art reveals forgotten women of Christianity

by Laurie Brink

Jul 11, 2018

Funerary analysis and the literary evidence of Christian women's authority presented in St. Joseph Sr. Christine Schenk's book confirms her thesis that, despite ecclesial efforts to the contrary, women exercised considerable influence, patronage and authority in the early centuries.

Author spotlights colorful, outspoken jurist Miles Lord

by Colman McCarthy

Jul 4, 2018

The magical reality of Adam and Eve

by Raymond Schroth

Jun 13, 2018

Author formulates a reform agenda based on lived lay spirituality

by Peter C. Phan

Jun 6, 2018

Economic justice: for Jesus, not just a campaign slogan

by Julie Bourbon

May 30, 2018

People

Archbishop Hunthausen was a man of prayer, a man of God

by Fr. Michael Ryan

Jul 23, 2018

Questions abound about SNAP's future

by Brian Roewe

Jul 23, 2018

After a flurry of leadership resignations, members of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests gathered for their annual conference, and continued to navigate the advocacy group's transition.

Raymond Hunthausen, retired archbishop of Seattle, dies at age 96

by Frank Fromherz

Jul 22, 2018

For American Muslims, family border separations are personal

by Aysha Khan, Religion News Service

Jul 21, 2018

Six US provinces of the Order of Friars Minor plan to unify

by James Dearie

Jul 20, 2018

How white evangelicals are outliers among US faith groups

by Yonat Shimron, Religion News Service

Jul 19, 2018

Spirituality

Scripture for Life

Sixteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: The shepherds we need

by Mary M. McGlone

Jul 21, 2018

Scripture for Life: Christ's followers must look at our world and ask what deep and truly human hopes and hungers are being unconsciously expressed in the blind competition of sports fans, the addictions that plague every strata of society, supremacy movements and all the isms that divide our people.

Buried under scaffolding, Holy Stairs set for resurrection

by Carol Glatz, Catholic News Service

Jul 21, 2018

Souter's approach to Constitution parallels Ignatian discernment

by Brian Harper

Jul 19, 2018

Mary of Magdala's profound connection to Jesus shows us the power of love

by Christine Schenk

Jul 17, 2018

I guard my minutes and hours almost as ferociously as Nonna did

by Amy Morris-Young

Jul 17, 2018

Mont-Saint-Michel serves as spritual oasis in secular times

by Jonathan Luxmoore

Jul 14, 2018

Theology

Distinctly Catholic

Spadaro and Figueroa rile the Christian right again in new essay

Jul 18, 2018

With the publication of "The Prosperity Gospel: Dangerous and Different," the Jesuit priest and Prebysterian minister are happily stirring up trouble again, eschewing the false politeness that characterizes too much writing on the Catholic left.

The Latin Bridge in Sarajevo, Bosnia-Herzegovina. Theologians from about 80 countries are to gather in Sarajevo July 26-29 for a conference called "A Critical Time for Bridge-Building: Catholic Theological Ethics Today." (Wikimedia Commons/Tumi-1983)

500 theologians to gather in Sarajevo to talk ethics, action

Jul 13, 2018

Theologians from about 80 countries are expected to take part in the July 26-29 conference called "A Critical Time for Bridge-Building: Catholic Theological Ethics Today."

Deacon commission won't advise Francis on ordaining women, says doctrinal chief

Jun 26, 2018

Are women 'substantially' incompatible for the priesthood?

by John Wijngaards

Jun 18, 2018

NCR Podcast: Humanae Vitae at 50

by NCR Staff

Jun 15, 2018

Jesus founded a movement led by both women and men

by Christine Schenk

Jun 15, 2018

Media

Researchers find link between Trump tweets and spike in anti-Muslim hate

by Emily McFarlan Miller, Religion News Service

Jul 18, 2018

It may be a law of nature: President Trump tweets something about Islam. Anti-Muslim hate crimes follow. That's according to a working paper by two researchers from the University of Warwick.

Book Review

Book review: Roman burial art reveals forgotten women of Christianity

by Laurie Brink

Jul 11, 2018

Morning Briefing