NCR Editorial Staff

The statement on Laudate Deum from the U.S. bishops' conference read more like an "out of office" kickback email than the "welcome" its title claimed it to be for Pope Francis' new exhortation on the environment.

Change need not threaten the richness of Catholic history and tradition. It rather might signify a church alive and vibrant, say the NCR editors. 

Before the Synod of Bishops opens Oct. 4, Pope Francis has a duty to finally release the report from his women deacons commission, say the NCR editors. 

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to a Sept. 7 editorial where the NCR editors said that they hope the Vatican will stop the abusive power play of Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson against the Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity.

The soap opera drama orchestrated by Fort Worth Bishop Michael Olson against the Discalced Carmelite nuns of the Monastery of the Most Holy Trinity has everything to do with Olson's heavy-handedness and cruel treatment of women religious. NCR editors hope the Vatican will stop his abusive power play.

The vital work of care for creation must be done together. NCR editors say that by working together across denominations, people of faith take the first step toward the integral ecology about which Pope Francis speaks.

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to an editorial where the NCR editorial staff says we should be grateful for (some) of the former vice president's actions.

Despite his flaws, the former vice president chose to do the right thing, both in January 2021 — and in his testimony to the grand jury that indicted Donald Trump for trying to derail the peaceful transfer of power. For that, the NCR editors say in this editorial, the country should be grateful.

Buoys that threaten to drown migrants and other inhumane border policies should horrify Catholics and prompt them to act against such nativist violence, say the NCR editors. 

The Vatican's working document for the synod on synodality shows positive signs that the three-year synodal process may be the beginning of a significant shift in the church. We can't help but be encouraged.

We say: Catholics are called to care about God's creation — human and non — even when New York's skyline does not look like a caution sign warning of suffocation risks.

We at the National Catholic Reporter ask Catholic Republicans to please urge your party to do better than its current crop of presidential candidates.

As NCR reported in a recent investigation, many parishioners in the Diocese of Knoxville, Tennessee, are feeling demoralized and unsure what power they have to effect change. They certainly deserve some answers.

Pope Francis' move to include nonbishop voting members of the synod has truly "enlarged the space of our tent," says this NCR editorial.

With last month's announcement of a slew of plans for faith organizations' divestment from fossil fuels, the contrast that zero U.S. dioceses have divested is stark. We say: All U.S. dioceses should divest.

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to a recent commentary calling for ordaining women to the priesthood as a start to answering some of Catholicism's issues. 

We say: The United States needs to return to a politics of hope, rather than fear-mongering, so the country can enact humane and just policies for migrants and asylum-seekers.

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to our report on a Milwaukee priest urging state legislators to repeal the clergy-penitent privilege in mandatory reporting laws.

Editorial: We are better than having to send our children — our children! — off to school each day, knowing that any person can walk in with an assault weapon and annihilate them.

Over the past 10 years, Pope Francis has changed the church in substantial ways. Jesus knocked. Francis opened the door. Now it's time to step through.