"Our wonderful pope seems to me to bring the best of our tradition, and the insights of his immediate predecessors, to the Catholics of today, and to make that tradition fresh again," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters.
After receiving a formal dispensation to leave the Franciscan order and priestly ministry, Daniel P. Horan reflects on his supportive transition into lay life, his recent marriage and his conversations with other former priests and religious.
"The Roman Curia for centuries has been all male, all white, all Italian and all clerical," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters. "Not anymore and not ever again."
The contest pits four-term Rep. Haley Stevens, who positions herself as a moderate who gets things done, against Abdul El-Sayed, running as a progressive intent on shaking up the political system.
Even when ideology is not at stake, the church lives in history, even while its foundations and its eschatological future transcend history, writes Michael Sean Winters.
On both sides of the Atlantic, people are fighting back to stop huge, powerful corporations from having their way with the things we should all share, writes Michael Sean Winters.
The Washington Post compiled a list of the 25 most influential works of culture in U.S. history. Perusing the list, you would have no idea that religion has been a consistently important cultural force in the U.S.
