Tom Roberts

Tom Roberts was NCR executive editor from October 2018 through April 2020. Tom was NCR editor from 2000-2008. He is the author of The Emerging Catholic Church: A Community's Search for Itself (2011) and Joan Chittister: Her Journey from Certainty to Faith (2015), both published by Orbis Books.

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'Both sides' is a lie that enables white nationalism, threatens Latinos

A sense of in between

NCR receives top honors from the Catholic Press Association

New ways of being church, in the public square and in the chanceries

Cycles of coverage, clerical culture, generational trends

Hierarchy and the need for a 'culture of vulnerability'

Not failing, but changing: US Catholic life in a new era

We're waiting on the decision about women deacons

God speaks to us through creation

Gregory's promise: 'I will always tell you the truth'

A mensch, a church in recovery, and hierarchical culture examined

Bishops must look within their own culture

A long, difficult grind toward reform

'Nuns and Nones': An energizing and hopeful story

For Catholics in the church's 'middle,' patience has run out

Let's challenge our presumptions of humility, tradition

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Pope's preacher goes back to basics in talks to bishops

NCR Connections: To exemplify a healthy public Catholicism

NCR Connections: The crisis and the role of the laity

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