May 1-14, 2020

Sixth Sunday of Easter: Becoming something new

May 16, 2020

Scripture for Life: God's indwelling is a matter of mutuality: We must freely choose to accept Christ's invitation to union and desire to live out of the energy we call grace. As we do that, our union with Christ will infuse us with his own motivation as well.

Column | Scripture for Life

Fifth Sunday of Easter: 'Let nothing disturb you'

by Mary M. McGlone

May 9, 2020

Scripture for Life: The way, truth and life that Jesus offers is a way of being together in God's world and at home with ourselves and everything. It's an emotional, psychological, spiritual space that fits us, a realm in which we belong as precisely who we are.

Column | Soul Seeing

Seeking wisdom from masters of social isolation

by Robert Ellsberg

Apr 28, 2020

Soul Seeing: So many saints and spiritual mentors elected solitude, or had it imposed by circumstances. What kind of wisdom, I wondered, might they impart to "ordinary" people entering into this unfamiliar world?

Smoke rises from Duke Energy's Marshall Steam Station, a coal-fired power plant in Sherrills Ford, North Carolina, Nov. 29, 2018. (CNS/Reuters/Chris Keane)

Editorial

Editorial: Trump's assault on the environment tramples years of progress

by NCR Editorial Staff

Apr 23, 2020

While the world struggles against a microbial menace, nature itself is under attack from the deliberate and steady overthrow by the Trump administration of environmental regulations, some in place for decades.

Sixth Sunday of Easter: Becoming something new

Fifth Sunday of Easter: 'Let nothing disturb you'

Seeking wisdom from masters of social isolation

Editorial: Trump's assault on the environment tramples years of progress

Editorial: In this forced retreat, are we asking big enough questions?

A good place, a strange moment

Near the rumble of the 7 train, Queens parish and pastor endure the pandemic

Confession by Zoom? Pandemic revives conversation about reconciling from afar

Experts question surgeon general who talks God's 'plan' with pandemic

With collection plates drying up, parishes race to SBA loans to avert layoffs

Several members of new Vatican commission appear opposed to women deacons

Pandemic exacerbates fear, challenges for undocumented immigrants

After coronavirus, how will we learn to un-quarantine?

The church after coronavirus: Crisis exposes what is essential

For the love of God (literally), stay home, be safe and pray

New book on Charleston massacre depicts agonizing struggle to move on