Southern Africa's Catholic community has been spurred into action by the global Black Lives Matter movement, with some local parishes hosting anti-bias workshops.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: Happy Bastille Day; not-so-neighborly in St. Louis; Twitter's effect on debate; a big warning for Democrats; goodbye to Ennio Morricone.
A man crashed his van through the doors of Our Lady Queen of Peace Church in Ocala, Florida, early in the morning July 11 and once inside, the church's pastor said, the man set the interior of the church ablaze and drove off.
Decolonizing Faith and Society: We who believe we are white need to make far more difficult collective sacrifices to create the conditions of the possibility of living racial equality as a way of life.
Simply Spirit: The Catholic Church should not be vilified for accessing a greatly needed government program that protects its employees. But it can get tricky.
The U.S. Roman Catholic Church used a special and unprecedented exemption from federal rules to amass at least $1.4 billion in taxpayer-backed coronavirus aid, with many millions going to dioceses that have paid huge settlements or sought bankruptcy protection because of clergy sexual abuse cover-ups.
Book review: Drawing on theology, Scripture, philosophy and anthropology, in Let's Talk About Truth, Ann Garrido has some serious things to say about truth in the post-truth age.
Simply Spirit: The Catholic Church should not be vilified for accessing a greatly needed government program that protects its employees. But it can get tricky.
Distinctly Catholic: The economic catastrophe brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic has made Americans even more inclined to support government intervention in the economy.
The combination of concern over government response to COVID-19 and the economic collapse brought about by the pandemic with the national reckoning over racism following the death of George Floyd in police custody in Minneapolis has found Catholics sharing in a public mood that has decidedly soured on politics, according to a panel of speakers.
Decrying the unimaginable "hell" migrants experience in detention centers, Pope Francis urged all Christians to examine how they do or don't help — as Jesus commanded — the people God has placed in their path.
Simply Spirit: The Catholic Church should not be vilified for accessing a greatly needed government program that protects its employees. But it can get tricky.
Across the country, Catholics — responding to the call to stand against police brutality of victims who are Black, Indigenous or people of color — are showing up, educating themselves and engaging in conversations about white supremacy.
Southern Africa's Catholic community has been spurred into action by the global Black Lives Matter movement, with some local parishes hosting anti-bias workshops.
Across the country, Catholics — responding to the call to stand against police brutality of victims who are Black, Indigenous or people of color — are showing up, educating themselves and engaging in conversations about white supremacy.
In a 2 a.m. decision July 14 after numerous last-minute filings, the Supreme Court ruled 5-4 to overturn a trial court order blocking the execution of federal death-row inmate Daniel Lewis Lee.
In June 2014, the University of Dayton ventured into fairly uncharted territory for a Catholic college, much less any U.S. academic institution. Now the university has been completely divested from fossil fuels for more than three years.
Book review: Drawing on theology, Scripture, philosophy and anthropology, in Let's Talk About Truth, Ann Garrido has some serious things to say about truth in the post-truth age.
Book review: The broken food system and the environmental crisis require us to reembrace the Eucharist as a vital meal fellowship. This includes recognizing ourselves as a community, called together to act against the world's political and social evils.
Commentary: Young people want to commit. They want to transform. They want to be part of the solution. The opportunities created by the CORPS Act would allow thousands to be "accompanied and encouraged."
Book review: Drawing on theology, Scripture, philosophy and anthropology, in Let's Talk About Truth, Ann Garrido has some serious things to say about truth in the post-truth age.
Young Voices: God calls us all to live in the fullness of God's reign, especially those who are laboring within a system that dehumanizes them, ignores them, takes advantage of them, even kills them.
Book review: Drawing on theology, Scripture, philosophy and anthropology, in Let's Talk About Truth, Ann Garrido has some serious things to say about truth in the post-truth age.
The Catholic Press Association of the U.S. and Canada has honored National Catholic Reporter with 17 citations of excellence in its 2020 awards contest.
"I never operate on a patient without a prayer." Sr. Mary Margaret Ajiko, a member of the Little Sisters of Mary Immaculate of Gulu, has worked for a decade at Soroti Regional Referral Hospital in eastern Uganda.
A judge in Kottayam, Kerala, issued a warrant after the prelate failed to appear in court July 13 to hear charges against him. Mulakkal is accused of raping a nun multiple times from 2014 to 2016.
