Young Voices: A recent study from LinkedIn says that millennials switch jobs on average of four times in their first decade out of college. Some might see that as a symptom of the "next-best-thing"-generation. But I don't think it's necessarily a negative phenomenon. To me, it's a manifestation of the admirably desperate search for vocation.
Faith leaders and Baltimore Police Commissioner Kevin Davis recounted the tough times their city faced and the healing role that faith has played at a May 3 panel in Washington.
Chicago -- "The flack has been enormous," since he accepted New Ways Ministry's invitation, the Lexington bishop says, but LGBT Catholics' "valuable expression of mercy" has inspired him.
Retired Archbishop George Niederauer of San Francisco, a longtime English professor and 11-year bishop of Salt Lake City, died May 2 at 80.
He had been living at Nazareth House in San Rafael, California, for several months following a diagnosis of interstitial lung disease.
"Archbishop Niederauer was known for his spiritual leadership, intelligence and wisdom, compassion and humor, and was always focused on his responsibility to live and teach the faith," said San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone in an announcement to the priests of the archdiocese.
TV Review: "13 Reasons Why," a 13-part dramatic series now streaming on Netflix, is raw, powerful and tragic. It sheds light on issues that should not be ignored.
Amid an atmosphere of extrajudicial violence, Archbishop Sebastian Shaw of Lahore advises his people: Do not live in fear, do not fight, and live with dignity.
Appreciation: April 30 marks the first anniversary of the death of Daniel Berrigan, renowned Jesuit priest, peacemaker, poet — and prophet.
American scholar Alvin Plantinga, a pioneering advocate for theism, or belief in God, as a serious philosophical position within academic circles, was named the winner of the 2017 Templeton Prize.
NCR Today: It is always difficult to discuss public opinion polls when it comes to what the church's positions should be on things like contraception, homosexuality and transgender rights.
Pope Francis accepted the early retirement request of Italian Bishop Gianfranco Todisco, who begged to be allowed to return to missionary work or to be sent "to the farthest, most disadvantaged" diocese.
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