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Your thoughts: More NCR readers wrote in with thoughts on Bishop James Wall's recent annoucement that he would begin celebrating Mass in his cathedral ad orientem, that is, "toward the east," with his back to the people.

Pope's quotes: "In the Gospel, immediately following His words on the power of faith, Jesus speaks of service. Faith and service cannot be separated; on the contrary, they are intimately linked, interwoven with each other."

Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of July 2019.

Pope's quotes: "Why is Jesus so exacting? Because He loved us in this way, making Himself our servant 'to the end,' coming 'to serve, and to give his life.' "

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent article about Bishop James Wall of Gallup, New Mexico, announcing that he would begin celebrating Mass in his cathedral ad orientem, that is, "toward the east," with his back to the people.

Pope's quotes: "Because faith, which is always God's gift and always to be asked for, must be nurtured by us. It is no magic power which comes down from heaven, it is not a 'talent' which is given once and for all, not a special force for solving life's problems."

Your thoughts: More readers responded to the recent article on a Pew Research study that shows that a majority of U.S. Catholics do not believe church teaching about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

Pope's quotes: "God treats us in the same way: He does not indulge our desire to immediately and repeatedly change the world and other people."

Your thoughts: Do Catholics 'actually' believe in the Real Presence? A recent Pew Research study shows that a majority of U.S. Catholics do not believe church teaching about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

Pope's quotes: "Today there is a world war to destroy marriage. Today there are ideological colonisations which destroy, not with weapons, but with ideas."

Your thoughts: Readers respond to NCR's four-part series looking into television network EWTN.

Pope's quotes: "You do not know, dear brothers and sisters, you do not know how much children suffer, the little ones, when they witness the arguments and the separation of parents! Everything should be done to save a marriage. But is it normal to have arguments in marriage? Yes, it is normal. It happens."

Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of June 2019. 

Pope's quotes: "All of us, in our life, have, or will have, dark moments. Also we, who are consecrated, have dark moments. When it seems things are not working out, when there are difficulties in community life, in the diocese, in those moments, what we must do is pause, and remember."

Your thoughts: In early June, the Vatican office responsible for overseeing Catholic educational institutions around the world put out a document against modern gender theory, claiming that it seeks to "annihilate the concept of 'nature.' "

Pope's quotes: "To be firm in the faith means the capacity to receive faith from others, to conserve that faith and to pass it on."

Pope's quotes: "Children, who have no problem in understanding God, have much to teach us: they tell us that He accomplishes great things in those who put up no resistance to Him, who are simple and sincere, without duplicity."

Your thoughts: Within the past month, NCR published three editorials calling for Catholics to pay attention to the humanitarian crisis happening at our southern border. 

From New York City to the southern border, thousands of pro-immigrant demonstrators in hundreds of cities gathered July 12 to protest Trump Administration immigration policies.

Your thoughts: NCR recently published stories outlining differing decisions by two Catholic schools in the Indianapolis Archdiocese when dealing with gay teachers.