Fr. Miguel D'Escoto put his priestly life at the service of the poor
Appreciation: The Nicaraguan Maryknoll priest, who died June 8, was suspended in 1985 and reinstated in 2014 -- and all along was a crusader for marginalized peoples.
People
What is it like to live without a head?
Soul Seeing: To live without a head is to live without ego, without judgment, vanity, manipulation, self-affirmation, and all the other natural born killers that flesh is heir to.
Trio's pilgrimage marks St. Rose Philippine Duchesne's arrival in 1818
St. Charles, Missouri -- Three friends walked 335 miles in 25 days tracing the journey of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, who came to America in 1818 to open schools with the Society of the Sacred Heart.
Miguel D'Escoto Brockmann, Maryknoll priest and former foreign minister of Nicaragua, has died
D’Escoto, removed from the priesthood for political activity in 1984, died June 8 in Nicaragua at age 84. He had been reinstated to active ministry in 2014.
Archbishop to become Lithuania's first beatified Soviet-era martyr
Lithuanian Archbishop Teofilius Matulionis, who was murdered in 1962 after 16 years in prisons and labor camps, was to become the first Catholic martyr from the country's communist era to be declared blessed.
U.S. Catholic honored as missionary, physician working in Sudan war zone
Dr. Tom Catena, a U.S. Catholic physician and missionary who serves in Sudan, has received the Aurora Prize for Awakening Humanity.
Setting the Patty Hearst record straight
Book Review: A recent book spate about '70s radicals is doubtless a soothing counterpoint to our own continuing conflicts. Now we have a new account of the 1974 Patty Hearst kidnapping.
Annulment reform seems to cultivate change of culture
Following Pope Francis' 2015 reform of church law on nullity procedures, several dioceses reported growth in annulment case filings for 2016 compared to 2015.
NCR Podcast: Live with Caitlin Hendel and Dennis Coday
NCR In Conversation: How do we decide what's news? This week's episode takes you behind the scenes into our newsroom, with NCR Publisher Caitlin Hendel and Editor Dennis Coday.
Christian theater company presenting new play on Dorothy Day this summer
Acacia Theatre Company in Milwaukee will present a two-act play about the life of Dorothy Day, co-founder of the Catholic Worker movement, in July.
The play, titled "This Other Love" and written by Patty McCarty, takes place in August 1927, during a time Day was struggling with her growing spirituality and relationship with her common-law husband, Forster Batterham. The play addresses Day following God's call to work with the poor. Janet Bouman Peterson is the play's production director.
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June 16-29, 2017
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