Executive editor Tom Roberts aims to help readers understand how recent news stories fit together. NCR Connections will provide guideposts and markers to help lead readers through key issues and stories.
NCR Connections: Through five years of reporting, NCR makes the case that something unusual has developed in the church in the U.S., influencing the conversation on Catholic social teaching and economics.
NCR Connections: The pope changed the metaphor for the Catholic community from maintaining borders to a community on a journey, with the work of the individual more a matter of accompaniment than judgment.
NCR Connections: She was a wonderful public Catholic, someone for whom faith was so obviously an influence in her relentless pursuit of the truth but also in her broad embrace of humanity.
