Chris Herlinger

Book review: How much do we need to know about the lives of writers to appreciate their work? Is the life all — or is it nothing? These questions hover over Eliot After The Waste Land, a new biography of poet T.S. Eliot.

Four refugee women from different parts of Ukraine thrown together by the sad fate of war say they are ending a turbulent year safe, secure and calm — though still uneasily in exile. They spoke to NCR in Warsaw.

Two Catholic scholars who study nuclear arms, peace and disarmament issues say U.S.-Russia tensions over the war in Ukraine should not deter either country from "lowering temperatures" over the use of nuclear arms.

Friends in Solidarity, the U.S. partner to the ministry Solidarity with South Sudan, has announced the launch of a legacy fund thanks to a major gift from the Our Lady of Victory Missionary Sisters.

Movie review: From its first moments, "The Territory" places the viewer in a new kind of war — the war for the future of the Amazon Basin, and what it portends for Indigenous Brazilians, Brazil and even the planet.

Book review: As bad as the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan was, the real shame was the conduct of the war itself, a fact supported by Craig Whitlock's bestselling The Afghanistan Papers: A Secret History of the War.

Book review: Elizabeth Becker's new book is an accomplished and deeply reported account of three female journalists who were pioneers at a time when war reporting was very much a male domain.

Perspective: My Good Friday experience came early this year. I can pinpoint it to the day in early March when, during an assignment covering the Ukrainian refugee crisis in Poland, I visited Auschwitz-Birkenau.

As Russian assaults on Ukrainian cities continue, the "immense suffering" of Europe's mounting refugee crisis "needs both material and 'a heart response' and a prayer response," says the president of Caritas Ukraine.

For 25 years, religious congregations with ties to the Hudson River Valley have worked to protect the valley's ecological integrity. Individual congregations have preserved parts of their lands through easements; they also have served on a coalition that advocates for the valley.

Appreciation: Pablo Richard's voice — quiet and humane, always concerned with what the Bible was telling us today — made important contributions to theological debate and scholarship.

Book review: Originally published in Russian in 1985, now in English, Svetlana Alexievich's Last Witnesses listens to adults looking back on their experiences as children during World War II in the Soviet Union.

Catholics in Bangladesh are mourning the death of Chittagong Archbishop Moses Costa, whose pastoral ministry and leadership gifts made him a beloved and revered figure throughout the country.

Templeton honoree Dr. Francis Collins is a renowned American geneticist and physician, best-selling author, NIH director and a member of the Vatican's Pontifical Academy of Sciences.

In a country where Óscar Romero's visage is seemingly everywhere — on street corners, in shops and living rooms and in the sacred space where he was killed — one question hovers at the sidelines: which Romero is being honored? The saint? The humble priest? The martyred Catholic?

Salvadoran human rights activist Marisa de Martínez focuses on the work that still needs to be done in El Salvador. She continues her association with the Ascension sisters, whose work, and hers, is about real and concrete challenges that date back to Romero's time and earlier.

Jesuit Fr. Jon Sobrino remembers his mentor, Fr. Ignacio Ellacuría, and other colleagues who were killed at the University of Central America in El Salvador by the army 30 years ago. The country's problems persist, even though the war is officially over.

A Dartmouth College professor who says he is a religious agnostic but whose work has focused on the links between science and the mysteries of creation is the winner of the 2019 Templeton Prize.

Book review: Those of us lucky to have had Cone as a professor will hear his impassioned voice throughout his often-moving memoir, Said I Wasn't Gonna Tell Nobody.

Catholics who work on the climate change issue say the world has "a moral and ethical imperative to act," following the release of a major report that foresees a global climate crisis.