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Apr 22, 2019

Women and Earth are 'on receiving end of patriarchy' when it comes to profit

by Chris Herlinger

Apr 22, 2019

Column | Just Catholic

Look up at the altar, where are the women?

by Phyllis Zagano

Apr 22, 2019

Memorial service marks 20th anniversary of shooting rampage at Columbine

Apr 22, 2019

After two students at Columbine High School went on a shooting rampage April 20, 1999, killing 12 students and one teacher and injuring two dozen more, then-principal Frank DeAngelis, a lifelong Catholic, began to question his faith, wondering "how could God possibly let this happen?"

Column | Scripture for Life

Alleluia is our song

by J. Michael McMahon

Apr 21, 2019

Daily Easter Reflections: One of the most dramatic moments in the celebration of the Easter Vigil occurs just before the proclamation of the Gospel. The Alleluia, silent for more than six weeks, is solemnly intoned three times by the priest or psalmist, each time on a higher pitch, then repeated by all.

Column | Distinctly Catholic

'Sometimes a fire is just a fire'

Apr 22, 2019

Distinctly Catholic: While the roof of Notre Dame de Paris Cathedral was still aflame last week, the interpretations of what this fire meant began to flood the internet and Twitter.

'Mary Magdalene' is a film perfect for Holy Week

Apr 19, 2019

"Mary Magdalene" is the best film I have seen depicting the short period of Jesus' public life and his crucifixion, death and resurrection. Rooney Mara as Mary conveys a contemplative, firm spirit open to God's will.

Quick Reads

U.S. bishops decry terrorist bombings of Sri Lanka churches, hotels

Updated

Apr 22, 2019

Rwandan bishops apologize for letter urging release of old, ill convicts

Apr 18, 2019

Procession shows support for Texas chapel at center of border wall plan

Apr 17, 2019

Fire chaplain helped save religious artifacts from burning cathedral

Apr 17, 2019

Official marks retired pope's birthday, commenting on his latest letter

by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Apr 15, 2019

N.H. death penalty repeal bid called 'an enormous victory for life'

Apr 15, 2019

Opinion

Editorial

Bannon's emerging anti-Francis movement threatens church unity

by NCR Editorial Staff

Apr 23, 2019

We say: Former White House advisor Steve Bannon is setting his providential magic on the Vatican, taking a shot at the pope, with the help of wealthy American and European friends. His populist nationalism remains an uneasy concept to fit into a Catholic framework

Column

The honest way to get into college is tough

by Colman McCarthy

Apr 23, 2019

I've been privileged to be a volunteer teacher for 34 years. In light of the recent college admissions scam and suits, I asked my students about their own college application process. What they wrote was heartfelt, honest and, in some cases, alarming in how deep was their anguish.

Blog | The Francis Chronicles

Francis, the comic strip

by Pat Marrin

Apr 23, 2019

Column | Distinctly Catholic

Links for 4/23/19

Apr 23, 2019

Blog | NCR Today

Copy Desk Daily, April 23, 2019

by Tracy Abeln

Apr 23, 2019

Editorial

Editorial: One pope is quite enough

by NCR Editorial Staff

Apr 22, 2019

Accountability

Editorial

Editorial: One pope is quite enough

by NCR Editorial Staff

Apr 22, 2019

We say: Benedict XVI's current meddling is neither sound analysis nor helpful to a pope making unprecedented efforts to reform the clergy culture. Benedict had his opportunities to call the church's hierarchical culture to account, but he failed.

Fr. Gary Hayes, abuse survivor and victim advocate, 66, dies

by Patricia Lefevere

Apr 17, 2019

Fr. Gary Hayes was among 25 survivors of clergy sex abuse and their supporters who sat in a closed circle with four cardinals and St. Paul-Minneapolis Archbishop Harry Flynn at a meeting of U.S. bishops in Dallas in June 2002, unafraid to tell the assembled eminences that their draft document on protecting children from predatory clergy was "totally inadequate."

French Catholics raise voices, demand measures to prevent further clergy sex abuse

by Elisabeth Auvillain

Apr 16, 2019

Franciscan University president resigns after Church Militant pressure

by Jenn Morson

Apr 16, 2019

Pope Benedict explains things to me

by Jamie Manson

Apr 12, 2019

Journalist surprised by bishops' support after controversial lawsuit

by Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service

Apr 11, 2019

Politics

Schoolchildren in Graignes, France, wait to place flowers on a memorial during a ceremony on June 5, 2015, honoring those who died during the Battle of Graignes in 1944. (Wikimedia Commons/U.S. Army/Capt. Saska Ball)

Links for 4/17/19

Apr 17, 2019

Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Reconsidering the Pharisees; Elizabeth Warren's GOP days; Columbia bows to Turkish pressure; D-Day and the French spirit.

Distinctly Catholic

Bannon helps spread cancer of populist nationalism

Apr 16, 2019

Distinctly Catholic: Former White House advisor Steve Bannon and others like him are defending the stench, making excuses for the policies which are so obviously opposed to Christian ethics and explicit Catholic teaching, feeding the tyrant and stoking the fear he uses to justify his repugnant policies.

Mark Silk on the history of the term 'Judeo-Christian'

Apr 15, 2019

Nielsen's policies were both inhumane and ineffective, advocates say

by Maria Benevento

Apr 12, 2019

Links for 4/11/19

Apr 11, 2019

Faith-based bills advance in Texas in defiance of 'almighty dollar'

by Max B. Baker, Religion News Service

Apr 10, 2019

Vatican

Vatican's second conference on nonviolence renews hope for encyclical

Apr 23, 2019

Vatican City — Participants said the meeting, co-hosted by Pax Christi and the Vatican's human development office, provided ample material for Pope Francis to consider for an encyclical.

The Francis Chronicles

Francis, the comic strip

by Pat Marrin

Apr 23, 2019

Francis, the comic strip: Springtime comes to St. Peter's Square.

Continuing Easter celebrations, pope again prays for Sri Lanka

by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Apr 22, 2019

At Easter the stones of sin, despair, are rolled away, pope says at vigil

by Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Apr 22, 2019

Pope's quotes: No to war

by NCR Staff

Apr 19, 2019

Your thoughts on Benedict's letter on sex abuse

by NCR Staff

Apr 19, 2019

Parish

Man faces charges for trying to walk into cathedral with flammables

Updated

Apr 18, 2019

A man arrested by New York police after he tried to walk through St. Patrick's Cathedral with flammables late April 17 has been charged with attempted arson, reckless endangerment and trespassing.

Lovers of the Holy Cross sisters draw from Vietnam roots as they serve in LA

by Peter Tran

Apr 18, 2019

Global Sisters Report: In helping the poor and leading faith formation, the Lovers of the Holy Cross of Los Angeles carry on the spirit of their founder, who began the congregation in Vietnam in...

Asylum-seeker from Nicaragua credits new home in Iowa to prayers

by Joanne Fox, Catholic News Service

Apr 18, 2019

Parish roundup: Building a team; lay advisory board; Guam's finances

by Peter Feuerherd

Apr 17, 2019

Florida bishop sanctions popular pastor accused of exploiting heiress

by Peter Feuerherd

Apr 11, 2019

Parish roundup: Pilgrimage for immigrants; Star of the Sea suspends classes

by Dan Morris-Young

Apr 10, 2019

World

Massive Sri Lanka Easter bombings traced to little-known group

by Michael Sainsbury, Catholic News Service

Apr 22, 2019

The Sri Lankan government blamed little-known Islamic group National Thowheeth Jama'ath for the Easter suicide bombings that targeted three churches and three luxury hotels across the country.

U.S. bishops decry terrorist bombings of Sri Lanka churches, hotels

Updated

Apr 22, 2019

The president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops termed as "a great evil" the Easter terrorist attacks in Sri Lanka targeting the country's minority Christian community as worshippers packed three churches.

Holy Week services go on in Paris despite Notre Dame fire

by Tom Heneghan, Religion News Service

Apr 18, 2019

Rwandan bishops apologize for letter urging release of old, ill convicts

Apr 18, 2019

South Sudan's Christian leaders say papal kiss is message of Easter

by Fredrick Nzwili, Catholic News Service

Apr 18, 2019

Knights CEO says Iran-backed militias threaten Iraq's religious minorities

Apr 17, 2019

Justice

Vatican's second conference on nonviolence renews hope for encyclical

Apr 23, 2019

Vatican City — Participants said the meeting, co-hosted by Pax Christi and the Vatican's human development office, provided ample material for Pope Francis to consider for an encyclical.

Women and Earth are 'on receiving end of patriarchy' when it comes to profit

by Chris Herlinger

Apr 22, 2019

To the sisters working at the United Nations, the recent debates over the need for social protections like public services and sustainable infrastructure offer a way into the discussion about feminist economics...

We should preach about the death penalty on Good Friday

by Daniel P. Horan

Apr 17, 2019

Advocates fear attorney general to restrict family-based asylum claims

by Maria Benevento

Apr 17, 2019

Blase Bonpane, 89, peace and human rights activist, dies in Los Angeles

Apr 16, 2019

Georgetown students vote for student fee to pay reparations over slavery

Apr 15, 2019

Environment

Women and Earth are 'on receiving end of patriarchy' when it comes to profit

by Chris Herlinger

Apr 22, 2019

Do no harm: Catholic hospitals confront their own carbon footprints

by Brian Roewe

Apr 22, 2019

While hospitals play a pivotal role in treating patients and communities dealing with health issues developing from the fallout of rising temperatures, they also represent a major source of pollutants.

Pope Francis meets with climate-strike teen Greta Thunberg

Apr 17, 2019

Would Pope Francis back the Green New Deal?

by Brian Roewe

Apr 15, 2019

Catholic University symposium confronts inequalities of climate change

by Jesse Remedios

Apr 10, 2019

Farmers benefit from organic farming initiated by sisters

by Joachim Pham

Apr 8, 2019

Books

The Native America of today

by Eric Anglada

Apr 17, 2019

Book Review: The author argues that to fully know America, all of us, Native and non-Native, need to look at and understand the Indian past and present. If we don't understand Indian history as part and parcel of everybody's history, then we miss "the full measure of the country itself."

Author invites us to irreligious realm

by Amy Morris-Young

Apr 10, 2019

Book Review: I found this book and the entire grief-therapy empire that Christina Rasmussen has established to be, at the least, astonishingly ambitious in its promises, and, at the most, possibly harmful for those who are suffering grief, and thus at their most vulnerable.

Women are fully human agents of social, political change

by Mary E. Hunt

Apr 3, 2019

New perspectives offered on nuances of St. Paul

by Brian Boosel

Mar 20, 2019

'Future Corpses' reminds us: Death isn't an 'if'

by Patrick T. Reardon

Mar 13, 2019

'Honest Rituals' argues for sacrament update

by Marian Ronan

Mar 6, 2019

People

Column

The honest way to get into college is tough

by Colman McCarthy

Apr 23, 2019

Memorial service marks 20th anniversary of shooting rampage at Columbine

Apr 22, 2019

Jesuit Father James Schall, philosopher, author and professor, dies at 91

Apr 22, 2019

Look up at the altar, where are the women?

by Phyllis Zagano

Apr 22, 2019

'Sometimes a fire is just a fire'

Apr 22, 2019

Fr. Gary Hayes, abuse survivor and victim advocate, 66, dies

by Patricia Lefevere

Apr 17, 2019

Spirituality

Scripture for Life

God is free to act against our expectations

by Melissa Musick Nussbaum

Apr 23, 2019

Daily Easter Reflections: We American Catholics have internalized a cinematic calendar — think "It's a Wonderful Life" and "Easter Parade" — that dictates snow for Christmas and sun for Easter

Scripture for Life

Lock them up, but do it quietly

by Gabe Huck

Apr 22, 2019

Daily Easter Reflections: "Bursting forth from Pharaoh’s prison, Alleluia! Let us sing! Alleluia! Christ is risen. Alleluia to our king!"

Alleluia is our song

by J. Michael McMahon

Apr 21, 2019

Our Lenten journey culminates in the vigil's powerful catechesis

by Gabe Huck

Apr 19, 2019

Easter Sunday: Recognizing Jesus

by Mary M. McGlone

Apr 19, 2019

Be servants to one another, pope tells prisoners before washing feet

by Junno Arocho Esteves, Catholic News Service

Apr 18, 2019

Theology

A man portraying Jesus carries a cross down a neighborhood street during a live re-enactment of the Stations of the Cross outside All Saints Catholic Church in Houston on Good Friday, April 14, 2017. (CNS/Catholic Herald/James Ramos)

Via Crucis on US streets: Faithful accompany Jesus in his suffering

by Jesse Remedios

Apr 18, 2019

Thousands across the country participate in Good Friday Way of the Cross processions, connecting the dramatic events of Christianity's most solemn day to modern issues facing society.

German theologians blast Benedict's letter as 'failed and improper' account of abuse crisis

Apr 16, 2019

A group of prominent German-speaking theologians has sharply criticized retired Pope Benedict XVI's recent letter on clergy sexual abuse, saying it "instrumentalized" the Catholic church's continuing crisis to rehash stale, decades-long theological disputes.

Church's foremothers proclaim Jesus from beyond the grave

by Christine Schenk

Apr 16, 2019

Your thoughts on Holy Spirit atheism and armchair theologians

by NCR Staff

Apr 12, 2019

Hang on to the ecclesial nature of the theological task

Apr 12, 2019

Theologian Brian Flanagan calls for a 'humble church'

by Heidi Schlumpf

Apr 5, 2019

Media

'Mary Magdalene' is a film perfect for Holy Week

Apr 19, 2019

Steven Bannon in "The Brink" (Courtesy of Magnolia Pictures)

'The Brink' shows Steve Bannon as a human, and as the enemy