NCR Voices

Although some part of Christmas seemed to be dying in 2022, Sr. Joan Chittister wonders if we are in the process of reclaiming a different kind of Christmas now. Maybe we have never been so close to the point of it all.

Pell, and those who are picking up his mantle, think they — and only they — have the solution to what ails the church and the world. But that hubris has hurt the church's credibility, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

Columnist Michael Sean Winters takes a look back at Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize speech and considers nonviolence's challenges to just war theory.
 

Cardinal George Pell's legacy as a lion defending the church is not a match for these times, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.

Fr. Daniel P. Horan notes that "Holy Spirit atheism" has real and practical consequences. We need to remember the Lord, the giver of life, he says.

The Catholic Church should be helping President Biden shape public opinion on the issue of immigration reform, argues columnist Michael Sean Winters.

Columnist Michael Sean Winters looks ahead to the intersection between politics and religion in the next year.

The trajectory of Pope Benedict XVI's legacy was set at his funeral, says columnist Michael Sean Winters.