Opinion

Nagasaki, Japan, showed scant signs of recovery four years after an atomic bomb was detonated over the city Aug. 9, 1945. (CNS/USA TODAY NETWORK via Reuters/Milwaukee Journal Sentinel files)

Commentary

Creation, conscience and the bomb

Aug 9, 2020

Commentary: No place on Earth has escaped nuclear contamination, but there is little data about the human and environmental consequences.

Commentary

A Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor's plea for an end to nuclear weapons

by Wada Masako

Aug 8, 2020

Commentary: On the 75th anniversary of the U.S. atomic bombings of Japan, NCR shares an address given during a Vatican conference Nov. 10, 2017, from Wada Masako, a survivor of Nagasaki's bombing on Aug. 9, 1945. The first atomic bombing was of Hiroshima on Aug. 6, 1945.

Column | Scripture for Life

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Dare to accept God's salvation

by Mary M. McGlone

Aug 8, 2020

Scripture for Life: It takes faith to put our whole heart into praying, "Lord, let us see your kindness." It takes audacious trust to let go of our expectations and dare to accept the salvation God offers.

Blog | NCR Today

Your thoughts on LGBT Catholics, canceled pilgrimages, women's ordination and more

by NCR Staff

Aug 7, 2020

Your thoughts: Each month, NCR gathers up a sampling of letters to the editor from our readers in response to articles and columns that appear on NCRonline. This week, we will focus on letters received in June 2020.

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Creation, conscience and the bomb

A Nagasaki atomic bomb survivor's plea for an end to nuclear weapons

Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Dare to accept God's salvation

Your thoughts on LGBT Catholics, canceled pilgrimages, women's ordination and more

Copy Desk Daily, Aug. 7, 2020

Dear parishes and priests: I want to pray with you, not watch you pray

Francis, the comic strip

AOC could do more for women by opposing abortion

Copy Desk Daily, Aug. 5, 2020

'The Risk of the Cross' reckons with our nuclear danger

The importance and challenge of doing nothing

Catholic bishops reprimand Trump as often as they praise him

Progressive millennials offer the church much hope and promise

Why not to worry

Francis, the comic strip

Copy Desk Daily, Aug. 3, 2020

Catholic school employees have a choice to make, now that their protection is in peril

'You were taken seriously': Former students remember Fr. Ray Schroth

The late Jesuit Fr. Ray Schroth saw journalism as a noble calling

Your thoughts on AOC as the future of the Catholic Church

Copy Desk Daily, July 31, 2020

Abortion: Discuss, don't debate

Learning humility from St. Ignatius, the 33-year-old grammar school student

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