Publisher's column: Will a church groomed by compassion and mercy be the church of our future? Will our church be guided by the lives and needs of marginalized people?
German Catholics won't be praying from a new translation of the Roman Missal as planned. In fact, the conference postponed the introduction of the new Mass prayers indefinitely.
NCR Today: The latest on 'Bishop Bling'; Human trafficking tackled in San Jose, Calif.; @Pontifex; Philippines earthquake reconstruction; and more.
At the Intersection: How do we get stuck on judging other people's behavior? I think it happens for two reasons.
Distinctly Catholic: The USCCB has announced its top 10 candidates for presidency and vice presidency. Who will take the spots?
A Swiss religion magazine is circulating a petition for Pope Francis to appoint women as cardinals and has attracted signatures of a number of European theologians and women religious.
A report criticizing the nation's largest society of Catholic theologians for sometimes exclusing members with conservative views has caused the group to commit itself to greater inclusivity.
NCR Today: Catholics continue to push immigration reform; Pius X bishop blasts Pope Francis; German Catholics like being church; and more.
Laughingly describing himself as America's most famous Catholic, Stephen Colbert headlined the 68th annual dinner of the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation held Thursday.
Two sexual abuse victims groups crashed a party planned for a former Arkansas high school athletic director convicted of failing to report the sexual abuse of a minor.