Lucy Grindon

Catholic Charities branches and Catholic legal organizations have signed a letter urging U.S. immigration officials to address the concerns of Special Immigrant Juvenile status holders who remain at risk of deportation, despite eligibility for green cards.

A new gender-neutral version of a life satisfaction survey, originally designed for women religious, needs responses from men religious in order to assess whether the updated survey is effective for men.

Rerum Novarum, Pope Leo XIII's 1891 encyclical on capital and labor is a foundational text of modern Catholic social teaching; it could be taught more often in seminaries or catechism classes, speakers at a May 12 event said.

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development is marking its 50th anniversary. The bishops who founded CCHD wanted to encourage community organizing so that people could come together and make their concerns heard.

Some Catholic doctors and medical ethicists have raised concern about possible forthcoming changes to the legal definition of brain death used in most U.S. states. 

Anthony Fauci and Christine Grady were honored for their work against the coronavirus with Catholic Theological Union's "Blessed are the Peacemakers" award at an online event April 28.

Mark Colville, part of the Kings Bay Plowshares 7 anti-nuclear activists, was sentenced April 9 to 21 months in federal prison for conspiracy, destruction of property on a naval installation, depredation of government property and trespassing.

Alejandro Cortez Amaya and his wife Juliza left El Salvador because of the threat of gang violence there. But when they arrived at the U.S. border almost two years ago, they were separated; Juliza was then eight months pregnant.

In the days since a white gunman killed eight people, including six women of Asian descent, in the Atlanta area, several U.S. bishops have condemned violence against Asian Americans, which has spiked during the pandemic.

At an online panel for International Women's Day, speakers representing Honduras, El Salvador and Nicaragua discussed the United States' role in creating political and economic crises in Central America.

The first task in confronting this history of abuse, before reconciliation can be possible, must be truth-telling, a process Denise Lajimodiere, researcher and founder of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition, said has barely begun in the United States.

Three months after the Philadelphia Archdiocese announced that John W. Hallahan Catholic Girls' High School would close, the school's students, alumnae and parents are still pushing Archbishop Nelson Pérez to reverse the decision.

St. Thomas the Apostle Parish in Chicago has received a $1 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to help establish a center inspired by Fr. Augustus Tolton, the first U.S. Catholic priest recognized as Black.

Most Black and Latinx students at a Catholic prep school met up online for a frank discussion with Jewish students from a neighboring school, exchanging perspectives on racism and anti-Semitism.

The majority of Americans  — 68% — said the pandemic has not changed their personal faith much, but despite the cancellation of religious activities and in-person services, few Americans — only 4% — say their religious faith has weakened as a result of the outbreak.

Thomas Blackburn, who joined NCR as assistant news editor in 1965 — just a year after the paper was started — and remained a regular columnist and contributor into the 1990s, died in Florida on Jan. 2 from complications of COVID-19.

Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty has signed onto a letter urging Congress to pass legislation to end the federal death penalty, and to oppose executions scheduled before Biden's inauguration.

In most U.S. cities, COVID-19 restrictions will prevent Catholics from gathering for large cathedral Masses, but indoor, outdoor and livestreamed Masses are still being planned. NCR looks at major dioceses' plans.

Every year, millions of Catholics make pilgrimages for the feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe. But in 2020, dioceses and parishes are replacing giant celebrations with livestreamed Masses and socially distanced gatherings.

In the U.S., there are more than 40 schools named after Pope John Paul II. Revelations in the McCarrick report have lead to criticism of the late pope's speedy canonization. He died in 2005, was beatified in 2011 and canonized in 2014.