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Feb 4-17, 2022

Pope Francis looks at a globe as he inaugurates a new permanent exhibition space in the Vatican Library Nov. 5, 2021. (CNS/Vatican Media)
Column | Scripture for Life

Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time: We must believe in Jesus' vision

by Mary M. McGlone
Feb 19, 2022

Scripture for Life: Which is harder to give up, our excess goods or our resentments? Do we care enough about the poor to forfeit some comfort? Are we willing to try to understand people with whom we strongly disagree?

Residents in a poor section of Rio de Janeiro receive food and bread produced at the Sanctuary of Our Lady of Fatima during the COVID-19 pandemic. Volunteers delivered the bread June 24. (CNS/Reuters/Ricardo Moraes)
Column | Scripture for Life

Sixth Sunday in Ordinary Time: Jesus' contraposition

by Mary M. McGlone
Feb 12, 2022

Scripture for Life: Speaking to a humanity that tends to equate good fortune with God's blessing, Jesus draws the map to happiness by a different route. His description of blessed happiness reorients our imagination.

Archbishop John Wester of Santa Fe, New Mexico, is seen during a virtual press conference Jan. 11 to discuss his pastoral letter on the growing need for nuclear arms disarmament. (CNS screengrab/YouTube, Archdiocese of Santa Fe)
Perspective

Wester's powerful letter part of hopeful trend: bishops arguing for nonviolence

by Eli McCarthy
Jan 28, 2022

Perspective: We don't always hear about Catholic bishops drawing us to the active nonviolence of Jesus. Yet, a pattern is emerging, especially with Santa Fe Archbishop John Wester's recent pastoral letter urging nuclear disarmament.

Pope Benedict XVI walks away after his final public appearance as pope in Castel Gandolfo, Italy, Feb. 28, 2013. (CNS/Paul Haring)
Editorial

Editorial: In penance for mishandled abuse cases, Benedict needs to give up 'pope emeritus'

by NCR Editorial Staff
Jan 27, 2022

We say: A German report accuses Pope Emeritus Benedict XVI of mishandling at least four cases of sexual abuse by priests when he was archbishop in Munich. We believe more than an apology is in order.

Milwaukee Archdiocese takes aim at trans persons in sweeping new policy

by Brian Roewe
Jan 26, 2022

With first women lectors and catechists, Francis continues 'creative work' of Vatican II

by Christopher White
Jan 24, 2022

NCR Publisher Emeritus Tom Fox remembers Thich Nhat Hanh

by Thomas C. Fox
Jan 21, 2022
Perspective

I'm pro-life. Here's why I don't attend the March for Life.

by Kathleen Sprows Cummings
Jan 21, 2022

Cincinnati archdiocese withdraws support of event featuring Arroyo, Caviezel

by Brian Fraga
Jan 21, 2022

Faulting of retired Pope Benedict's handling of abuse cases sparks sharp reactions

by Christopher White
Jan 20, 2022

With Roe likely to fall, March for Lifers see movement at a crossroads

by Brian Fraga
Jan 20, 2022

Inspired by Pope Francis, Laudato Si' institute at Oxford on a mission to better the world with research

by Jonathan Luxmoore
Jan 19, 2022

What Catholic social teaching has to say about the Great Resignation

by Melissa Cedillo
Jan 19, 2022
Book Review

Book highlights vulnerability of refugees in meatpacking plants across American Midwest

by Mary T. Perez
Jan 15, 2022

Bad luck: Pope acknowledges he got caught at record store

by Nicole Winfield, Associated Press
Jan 14, 2022
Commentary

My daughter was a gay Catholic who died by suicide. Here's how the church must protect LGBTQ+ Catholics.

by Joyce Calvo
Jan 13, 2022
Commentary

Are we all in this together? Now is not the time to give up on building solidarity

by Robert Christian
Jan 11, 2022
Contributor

Pope's comments are about more than pets. They reinforce the church's narrow view on reproduction and marriage.

by Flora x. Tang
Jan 7, 2022

A Catholic feminist review of Halsey's album 'If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power'

by Jessica Gerhardt
Jan 7, 2022

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