Distinctly Catholic: One of the most remarkable oddities of our time is that the political party led by someone whose career is one continuous form of self-promotion has been embraced by many people who claim to believe that he who said "blessed are the meek" is the savior of the world.
Your thoughts: In two recent opinion pieces at NCR, the political aspects of the abortion debate were discussed, asking for a change in how we talk about abortion and pointing out how both sides are falling short.
The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis.
A national survey has identified two major challenges facing campus ministers: a desire to help young Catholics transition from college to parish life, and the need for better collaboration.
Review: Michael Petroni says of his show, "Your perception is only through the character's point of view and human experience, and this leaves it up to you, the audience, to decide the meaning of what's going on, and what the bigger picture is."
Many would be surprised to learn that Warhol was a lifelong Catholic whose faith played a pivotal role in the development of his work. "Andy Warhol: Revelation" at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh traces the influence of Catholicism upon Warhol's artistic career.
The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis.
For the confidence of the people of God, the abuse charges against Bishop DiMarzio cry out for an investigation. Our problem is with making diocesan neighbor Cardinal Dolan responsible for leading an inquiry.
Your thoughts: In two recent opinion pieces at NCR, the political aspects of the abortion debate were discussed, asking for a change in how we talk about abortion and pointing out how both sides are falling short.
The Vatican women's magazine is blaming the drastic drop in the number of nuns worldwide in part on their wretched working conditions and the sexual abuse and abuses of power they suffer at the hands of priests and their own superiors.
With fake news becoming ever more sophisticated, people need the wisdom, courage and patience to discern and embrace constructive stories,
Pope Francis said.
After more than seven decades of ministry by Franciscans in the Diocese of Charleston, the religious order's Holy Name Province has told a group of its friars they are being withdrawn from South Carolina.
Dynamic Catholic is now focused on what is billed as "the largest parish renewal initiative the church has ever seen." Dynamic Catholic's consulting comes at a low price, which it can afford because of donations.
The secretary-general of the Mexican bishops' conference expressed dismay at the sight of Mexican security forces scuffling with a caravan of Central American migrants trying to enter the country via its southern border with Guatemala.
India's top court on Jan. 22 began hearing dozens of petitions seeking the revocation of amendments to the citizenship law following nationwide protests and a security crackdown that led to more than 20 deaths.
A Dallas law firm and a Rhode Island parishioner alleged in a federal lawsuit that the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops misled donors nationwide regarding the purposes of the annual Peter's Pence collection.
The secretary-general of the Mexican bishops' conference expressed dismay at the sight of Mexican security forces scuffling with a caravan of Central American migrants trying to enter the country via its southern border with Guatemala.
Ally Kateusz command of early texts does a fine job of uncovering gender balance in second to 10th-century Christian leadership, but her analysis of visual evidence offers only thought-provoking speculation.
Book review: Author Jennifer Berry Hawes unpeels layers of pain and anger, sorrow and forgiveness, hatred and love to ask questions that do not have easy answers. What sustains ordinary people after an unspeakable tragedy?
Many would be surprised to learn that Warhol was a lifelong Catholic whose faith played a pivotal role in the development of his work. "Andy Warhol: Revelation" at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh traces the influence of Catholicism upon Warhol's artistic career.
Scripture for Life: We might say that prudence is the prophetic virtue Jesus exhibited at the beginning of his ministry. Prudence is audacious and can be disturbing.
Roundtable: In the proposed separation on LGBT issues, Methodists could let one another go in peace, if not with full mutual blessings, without a seemingly impossible need to square a circle.
"Where certain species are destroyed or seriously harmed, the values involved are incalculable." The devastation in Australia comes at a time when rates of species extinction are accelerating worldwide.
Many would be surprised to learn that Warhol was a lifelong Catholic whose faith played a pivotal role in the development of his work. "Andy Warhol: Revelation" at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh traces the influence of Catholicism upon Warhol's artistic career.
Review: "Indian Horse" is flawed, but it is that rare film that brings to light the sins committed against indigenous peoples by the unholy alliance of Eurocentric colonization and Christianization.
A community of 12 Polish Carmelite sisters in Hafnarfjördur, Iceland, opened 2020 with big goals in sight: This year, they will release two CDs created with the help of distinguished Icelandic composer and pianist Jónas Sen.
The wall and military towers loom above the convent on all three sides, including over the kindergarten playground, which has been covered by a fireproof roof because of the Molotov cocktails thrown over the wall by Palestinian demonstrators during clashes with Israeli soldiers.
