Daniel P. Horan

We need more candidates and campaigns like we saw last week, writes Dan Horan. As we turn our attention to the 2026 midterm elections, the common good depends on it. 

Too many people who hold political office today throw around words like "faith" and "Christianity" and "values," yet support dehumanizing practices that not only fail to love one's neighbor but also cause great harm.

Dan Horan reflects on the legacy of the well-loved podcast "WTF With Marc Maron," particularly the way its comedian host modeled vulnerability in discussion and sincere interest in others.

Reflecting on Pope Leo's recent comment in an interview, Daniel Horan suggests we look to history for the ways in which changing attitudes did eventually result in changing doctrine.

Dan Horan reviews theologian Hanna Reichel's For Such a Time as This: An Emergency Devotional, a book that arrived by sheer coincidence of timing, or direct act of divine providence, an answer to unspoken prayers.

We might take the Season of Creation as an opportunity not only for an examination of conscience, but also a time to meditate on war and peace in the human community, the cosmic community of creation and even in our own hearts.

This year marks the 800th anniversary of St. Francis of Assisi's composition of the 'Canticle of the Creatures.' It's time we look harder at the radical theological vision of creation it contains.

Dan Horan encourages Catholics to pick up the Bible again and open our minds and hearts to risk being changed by God.

The ecological agenda of the Trump administration isn't just immoral, argues Dan Horan — it's sinful.

I wonder whether the framing of the liturgy itself in instrumentalizing terms may unintentionally reinscribe problematic views of the relationship between the human and more-than-human world.

The Trappist monk's reflections on war and the Christian imperative for nonviolence may have been directed at conflicts more than half a century ago, but his insights continue to bear prophetic relevance today.

Diversity, equity and inclusion are not anathema to Christian life and discipleship, writes Dan Horan — they are found in the very heart of what it means to be a Christian.

Listen: Heidi Schlumpf, Daniel P. Horan, and David Dault gather for a special episode of "The Francis Effect" podcast to look at the first weeks of the papacy of Pope Leo XIV.

If we only think on cosmic scales, everything becomes too overwhelming to consider or tackle," writes Dan Horan. 

The next pope will need to be a spiritual leader who is himself unafraid, and offers Christians — and all people of good — hope in the face of fear, writes columnist Dan Horan.

Listen: Heidi, Daniel and David look back on the papacy of Pope Francis. They discuss what comes next, including the conclave. Then they look ahead to consider how Francis' legacy might be carried forward in the next papacy. 

Expanding our reflection on the significance of Christ's resurrection beyond our own individual, familial or even species interests to include all of God's creation invites us to see the world more like God sees it.

Co-hosts discuss the Trump administration's tariffs, and how pastors can emphasize climate change. Heidi interviews Stephanie Clary, NCR's environment editor, about the 10th anniversary of the pope's environmental encyclical.

The scarcity mindset is governed by fear and self-interest, but a theology of abundance more closely aligns with the life, ministry and preaching of Jesus Christ in the Gospels.

Podcast panelists discuss recent actions of the Trump administration that violate civil rights and challenge judicial oversight.