NCR Connections: After chatting with a bishop in a lunch line, I wonder: If there were more opportunities for church leaders to hang out, in person, with everyday Catholics, could we better understand one another?
Pope Francis has now appointed three of his former confreres in the Society of Jesus to the Vatican's highest posts. He is also including more members of his order in the College of Cardinals.
Grace on the Margins: The theft of indigenous statues was profoundly racist and misogynist, and reasserts the white supremacist mentality at the root of the destruction of the Amazon and its peoples.
NCR Connections: I'll give pollsters a break in the case where they were asking Catholics about the Eucharist and the real presence. This isn't "Do you like Donald or Hillary?" Yet the reality is far more complex and genuinely edifying.
NCR Connections: "The Clergy Sex Abuse Crisis: How Did We Get Here?" was the topic of a briefing for media and NCR members, Sunday night in Baltimore on the eve of the U.S. bishops' meeting.
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: NCR to host a briefing for reporters ahead of bishops' meeting; what ballot measure are up for vote; how abortion plays a role in the attitude of voters
Listen: NCR's Joshua McElwee, Heidi Schlumpf, Michael Sean Winters and Dennis Coday talk about the summer's events that have led to an internal power struggle and an emerging layer of the sex abuse crisis in the Catholic Church.
