Jeromiah Taylor

In his new book A Time To Gather: How Ritual Created the World — and How It Can Save Us, Bruce Feiler argues for the importance of ritual, insisting that "doing is believing."

NCR staff reporter Camillo Barone and  Brian Roewe, NCR's environment correspondent honored by professional journalism organization. 

"A generation of young men who struggle to emulate aspirational standards of appearance are in dire need of the church's affirmation that they are just fine the way they are," writes Jeromiah Taylor. 

The movement that mobilized a nation on behalf of farmworkers is a movement that like all movements depends on the sacrifices of a great many. Not the charisma or power of a single individual.

In a statement issued March 7, Cupich took particular aim at a social media video posted by the White House Friday featuring footage from the ongoing war in Iran spliced with scenes from action movies and captioned "Justice the American way." 

Our desire for satisfying alternatives to modernity and a sense of meaning shouldn't turn us against all questioning. Questioning is what brought us to the faith in the first place.

Married priests "will not be the shock troops that will carry the day against the monumental powers of darkness that presently threaten the people of God," Notre Dame president Fr. Theodore Hesburgh said in 1971.

As NCR commits to cover the response of the church to the onslaught of cruelty coming from the Trump administration, this 1970 article — recounting the story of Catholic prelates helping secure table grape contracts — rings a bell.

In Colby Gordon's first book, Glorious Bodies: Trans Theology and Renaissance Literature," the author's political theology implicates transphobia as a crucial underpinning of colonialism, white supremacy and Christian hegemony.

In April 1967, National Catholic Reporter published the secret recommendations of the papal birth control commission. The story was emblematic of how NCR revolutionized journalistic coverage of the Catholic Church.

In this NCR news report originally published Nov. 24, 1989, readers learn about the shocking massacre of Jesuit priests at the Central American University in San Salvador, which had occurred eight days earlier. 

The following staff editorial was published four days before the general election of 1972, when Richard Nixon won his second term in a landslide. You'll notice continuity between the paper then and now.

The first-ever conference dedicated to the life of Catholic Worker co-founder Peter Maurin centered on the question of how his program can inspire us to "blow the dynamite" of the Gospel.

The new graphic novel on the life of Dorothy Day is the perfect medium to convey the nuance, power and multi-dimensionality of Day's legacy, writes Jeromiah Taylor.