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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Still, we find ways to connect

Leadership Roundtable brings a dose of reality to the church

Turning the abuse crisis discussion to deeper themes

Points of hope against disturbances in the neighborhood

L'Arche report: Founder Vanier engaged in abusive relationships with women

A way out of the US bishops' tight ideological and partisan corner

Trump seals his Catholic deal

Use of wide-open location data, closed-door meetings hurt Catholics

Vulnerability as strength: Keenan's key to dismantling clericalism

NCR wishes you a light-filled Christmas

Thomas Doyle traces the disintegration of clerical/hierarchical culture

The Amazon synod shows the way forward for the US church

The jazz writer: Jason Berry's quest to understand the place where he's from

On capitalism, women, the Amazon — a world of Catholic conversations

Francis takes John Paul II's 'Be not afraid!' to new levels

Cokie Roberts: trailblazing journalist, Catholic citizen, 'the real deal'

In US tour, Marie Collins exposes clerical culture behind abuse cover-up

It's not about ethics, it's about how we imagine God

Cardinal-elect was a Francis bishop before Francis

Polls can't capture our understanding of the Eucharist

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