Eugene Cullen Kennedy

Eugene Cullen Kennedy is emeritus professor of psychology at Loyola University, Chicago.

Bishops and priests attend the opening Mass of the Synod of Bishops on young people, the faith and vocational discernment at the Vatican in October 2018. (CNS/Paul Haring)

The hierarchical spirit that will not die

Part 2 of 2: NCR publishes a posthumous essay on clerical culture from Eugene Kennedy, one of the most prolific and insightful observers of the Catholic Church in the modern era.

"Souls in Purgatory," detail, by José Guadalupe Posada, Mexican, 1871-1913 (Art Institute of Chicago)

The purgatory of the sex abuse crisis

Part 1 of 2: NCR publishes a posthumous essay on clerical culture from Eugene Kennedy, one of the most prolific and insightful observers of the Catholic Church in the modern era.

Dick McBrien, free at last

If Rome is filled with pyromaniacs, how can they charge nuns with arson?

Religion speaks not to the will, but to the imagination

The biggest unreported synod influence: human experience

Summer is over, but midsummer madness continues in the church

James Foley enters the tremendous and gripping Mystery

The real reason for the Vatican's problem with LCWR

Can Catholics disagree only when they agree with the church?

Bishops follow pope's lead: This is news?

Does Pope Francis know Cardinal Müller uses the sex abuse playbook against LCWR?

NCR's calling to report the eternal in time

Did the Council of Trent enable the sex abuse scandal?

Pope Francis to us: 'I am Vatican II'

An apology to Bishop Thomas Paprocki

The envelope, please, for the 2013 Clericus Maximus Award

Giving thanks for the 'Francis side effects'

Pope Francis is guilty of being a Christian

Francis hits 'em where they ain't in meaningful papal interviews

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