As he explained his decision to end his reelection campaign, President Joe Biden did not mention his Catholic faith. But his Catholicism informs this man's understanding of the moment, of himself, and of our nation.
Specific agendas will frustrate the synodal process because it is well-nigh impossible to listen to the Holy Spirit if we insist on trying to achieve our particular goals, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
It isn't just that some bishops disagree with the decision to cut back on the Justice, Peace and Human Development office, while leaving other committees untouched. It is that the bishops feel like they were gaslighted at last month's meeting in Louisville.
It's not about fatigue or danger or age and endurance, writes Sr. Joan Chittister. It's about doing what we each need to do to help one another profit the whole country, the whole globe.
The results of U.K. elections show that the underlying cultural issues are very similar throughout the Western democracies, even if the U.K. is moving in the opposite direction from that of the U.S. and France.
Fighting a new culture war battle over the placement of the Ten Commandments on the walls of schools is a fool's errand, says NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
Will the 40 or so U.S. bishops who rushed out with statements supporting Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò's call for Pope Francis to resign now withdraw their support?
It is one of the saddest things about our democracy that the election will be decided by low-information voters who probably did not watch the entire debate last night, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
The fate of Louisiana's law mandating the Ten Commandments in public classrooms could rely on the Supreme Court's yearslong "trajectory of weakening the establishment clause," David Golemboski tells Fr. Dan Horan.