NCR Today

NCR Today is the group blog of NCR. Each member of our diverse team of bloggers writes on different topics, including the politics of the church and secular society (and the interaction between the two), culture, management of the church and more.

Letters to the Editor: Bishops doing penance. Women cardinals, a reform we can back. Inspired preaching.

by Dennis Coday

Sep 21, 2018

Welcome to our online letters to the editor column. It's online but based on the old-fashioned letters to the editor format: Send me your thoughts and ideas, reactions and responses. I will collect them, curate them, and post a collection to the NCR Today blog.

Morning Briefing

by Dennis Coday

Sep 21, 2018

NCR Today: V Encuentro opens in Grapevine, Texas. Francis visits Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. Cries for reform grow louder. More bishops resign in Chile. The new conservative focus on homosexuality in the clergy.

For Francis, February bishops' meeting will be a defining moment

by Dennis Coday

Sep 20, 2018

Could this be the moment for which Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio was called from "the ends of the earth" to be pope?

Morning Briefing

by Joshua J. McElwee

Sep 20, 2018

Pope Francis meets Bono, Global Sisters Report covers migration across Asia and a sister's abuse, the U.S. bishops plan to write a code of conduct for prelates.

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Letters to the Editor: Bishops doing penance. Women cardinals, a reform we can back. Inspired preaching.

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For Francis, February bishops' meeting will be a defining moment

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Parish roundup: Pew offers sketch of American Catholics; parishioners cope with abuse crisis

Could reform of the church mean schism?

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Standing with prisoners who cry out for justice

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Letters to the Editor: Sex abuse, celibacy and clericalism examined. Thanks for scripture column.

Morning Briefing

Republicans highlight Trump administration's possible transgressions

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Listen to prisoners striking for justice

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Letters to the editor: Crisis in the Church. Crimes and secret archives. Jesus' real presence.

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