Appreciation: As editor of Praying magazine, Art Winter, who died at age 89 on May 11, presented the best of Catholic spirituality and theology in ways that helped people apply those insights in everyday life.
Commentary: As Catholics, Christians, Muslims and Jews, we are taught to take action and not wring our hands. In Ukraine and now beyond its borders there are millions in need of our love, compassion and our resources.
NCR Connections: In eliminating so much of what CNS produces, the U.S. bishops are cutting off access to crucial news and information about the church at precisely the time Pope Francis is calling for synodal listening.
Emilce Cuda's ascendancy in the Vatican underscores the structural changes that Pope Francis seeks. Those who know Cuda say that Francis is looking to her to help him hardwire Catholic social thought in the Vatican and beyond.
