Dennis Coday

NCR Today: Irish bishop resigns under pressure for covering up sex abuse. How will you respond to the gun debate? We have suggestions. Women religious step into gun debate (and win). Mennonite goes to jail over death penalty case testimony (she won't testify.) And much more.

NCR Today: Bishops call Catholics to act for Dreamers, Supreme Court to hear labor case, Michael Sean Winters takes exception to reported "Vatican finance scandal," women religious discuss challenges of religious life.

Dear Editor: Confused by Vatican actions; The importance of Nostra Aetate, Lincoln Catholics and excommunication; Looking for opportunities to proclaim Christ the Light; Politicians and abortion.

NCR Today: Guns, guns, guns and what we think about them. Take some time to pray this Lent. U.S. immigration service officially removes 'nation of immigrants' from its mission statement. The tragedy that is Syria.

NCR Today: Vatican investigator meets Chilean abuse victim. NCR resources for Lent for you; eing religious doesn't make you green, but religious school students are helping keep the planet that way; Florida students plan 'March for Our Lives' against guns March 24

Dear Editor: Church leaders have to earn our trust; I love our priests, but they need to join the women’s movement; What would Jesus’ message to a hedge fund philanthropist be? I pray every time I go to Mass for this 2010 missal to be rolled back.

NCR Today: NCR resources for Lent for you. After Florida, is the tide finally turning on gun control? Poland's Catholic Church takes on its critics. No more nukes? How to stand up to the Kremlin.

NCR Today: Congress passes budget spending plan — DACA not included; Sr. Louise Akers dies; Amoris Laetitia, the pope's document on family and marriage, still under scrutiny; Australian bishops call for special fasting and prayers for sex abuse reparation and healing.

NCR Today: My recent post on NCRonline.org, "Let's all agree to 'live in tension,' " seems to have sparked more than the usual interest among our readers, if my inbox is any indication.

The Deans Say: "Deporting these young people just as they are poised to make strong contributions to this country ... is poor public policy and not in the public interest."

NCR Today: NCR reporters are on the ground at Catholic Social Ministry Gathering; DACA still the focus as next federal budget deadline approaches; Superbowl LII -- what a game; sister's composting experience becomes a life lesson.

Dear Editor: Give Trump the respect due a president; Catholics can and should do more to keep immigrants safe; Why can’t mature lay Catholics of tested faith lead parishes? 

NCR Today: Bad news on Groundhog Day; What will the Nunes memo say, will it matter? The church and the 'Latino moment'; Law professor suggests, corporations are first defenders of liberty; The homilist who wrestled with God.

Pope Francis is sending Archbishop Charles Scicluna of Malta to Chile to take testimony about Bishop Juan de la Cruz Barros Madrid of Osorno, Chile, who is accused of covering up allegations of abuse by a Chilean priest who was found guilty of abuse.

NCR Today: Prepare yourself for the State of the Union address; Catholic Schools Week selections from NCR; What you need to know about the Russia probe; Is the Vatican selling out in China?

Dear Editor: I wondered if you planned to post an update on your intentions for the comments system anytime soon. Thanks for any clarification you can provide.

NCR Today: Trump takes "America First" to Swiss Alps; NY Times' Douthat can't stop talking about our pope; what's the price of America's conscience, Michael Sean Winters wonders; Catholics confront racism; former child soldiers now peace makers. 

NCR Today: If I had to choose a quote from our latest print issue that could serve as a motto for the whole edition, I think I'd have to go with Pope Francis' words to the Vatican diplomatic corps advising them to "abandon the familiar rhetoric and start from the essential consideration that we are dealing, above all, with persons."

NCR Today: Women march as the government shuts down; Vice President Pence is in Jerusalem, and Pope Francis is on his way home after Latin America visit; new study asks why some many young people raised Catholic are "disaffiliated" from the church

NCR Looks Back: NCR reporters interviewed key players about what has transpired over the first year of the Trump administration. We collected these stories into a series we call: A Nation Under Trump.