Opinion

Franciscan Fr. Dan Horan, a longtime NCR columnist, shares with readers the conclusion of his prayerful vocational discernment.

"Campaign coverage this year has certainly been light on attention to the religious lives of the candidates and their running mates," writes Mark Silk, Professor of Religion in Public Life at Trinity College. "The journalistic posture has pretty much been: 'If you don’t tell, we won’t ask.'"

If you were grading this debate against that by the two presidential candidates, this one was more substantive to be sure.

"Women and the diaconate cannot be the exception to synodality," writes Anna Robertson. Doing so "risk(s) undermining the entire synodal project, the integrity of the church and the life of the people of God."

The second session of the Synod on Synodality will take place this October as a follow-up to the first session that occurred last October. Here are five things to look for as the synod delegates gather in Rome.

Though we had just met in my first week on the job, Sister Annie arrived unannounced and unsurprisingly at the moment I needed to hear from her most.

Must one vote for one or the other, as the pope suggests? Phyllis Zagano explores the basic question for both voters and bishops alike: Which team is more pro-life?

As Pope Francis likes to say, reality is more important than ideas, so examining legitimate diversity among the churches will require a discussion of controversies that divide local churches.