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Nov 26-Dec 9, 2021

The life of St. John the Baptist is depicted in medieval mosaics at the Baptistery San Giovanni in Florence, Italy. (Wikimedia Commons/Sailko)
Column | Scripture for Life

Second Sunday of Advent: Take the road of transformation

by Mary M. McGlone
Dec 4, 2021

Scripture for Life: The thing about genuine conversion or metanoia is that we can't plan it. It is God's offer in a particular moment of history — a grace of insight that shakes us up and turns us around. All we can do is be open to it.

People attend the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Glasgow, Scotland, Nov. 12. (CNS/Reuters/Yves Herman)
Editorial

Editorial: COP26 shortcomings point to mission for all Catholics

by NCR Editorial Staff
Nov 19, 2021

We say: Protecting the environment for future generations and ensuring equitable solutions for those most vulnerable to climate change are matters of justice on which Catholics must speak and act in the follow-up to COP26.

Archbishop José Gomez of Los Angeles, president of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, gestures alongside Detroit Archbishop Allen Vigneron, vice president, during a Nov. 17 session of the bishops' fall general assembly in Baltimore. (CNS/Bob Roller)
Editorial

Editorial: Eucharist document will quietly go away, but bishops' ineffectiveness remains

by NCR Editorial Staff
Nov 18, 2021

We say: The fact that the bishops passed a bland document that mostly ignores the issue of politicians and Communion will likely be seen by many on the right as capitulation and a loss. Progressives could rack it up as a win. But this is not a win.

A bishop looks over paperwork during a Nov. 17 session of the fall general assembly of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops in Baltimore. (CNS/Bob Roller)

After year of divisive debate, US bishops approve tepid document on Communion

Updated
by Brian Fraga, Joshua J. McElwee
Nov 17, 2021

After more than a year of intense debate on a document originally intended to target pro-choice Catholic politicians like President Biden, the U.S. bishops approved a milquetoast text summarizing teaching on Communion.

Column | NCR Connections

Synod must be a safe place for all to be heard

by Heidi Schlumpf
Nov 17, 2021

COP26 climate summit made progress but came up short, Catholic agencies say

by Brian Roewe
Nov 16, 2021

In new letter, Pope Francis praises priests, nuns who cared for AIDS victims

by Christopher White
Nov 12, 2021
Commentary

25 years after his death, Cardinal Bernardin's voice and presence still missed

by Bishop Gerald Kicanas
Nov 12, 2021
Views

New survey raises concerns about increasingly conservative clergy

by Michael Sean Winters
Nov 12, 2021

Bishops' visits to Rome unable to quell crisis of Polish church

by Jonathan Luxmoore
Nov 9, 2021

Black Catholics respond with dismay as Gomez calls protests 'pseudo-religions'

by Brian Fraga
Nov 5, 2021

The gospel according to 'Squid Game'

by Cameron Bellm
Oct 29, 2021

'Call Me If You Get Lost' and the evolution of Tyler, the Creator

by Elizabeth (Ro) Ajiduah
Oct 23, 2021
Book Review

Two books reflect on America in the time of the pandemic

by Timothy Kelly
Oct 16, 2021

Soul seeing, like love, changes everything

by Michael Leach
Oct 16, 2021

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