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Stephen Adubato writes that what we call "traditional Catholicism" is less the fruit of a living legacy shared between generations than it is th…
Supporters demand justice for Fr. Marcelo Pérez's murder, but also cry for peace in the violence-stricken region — including protection of the c…
The elections at this year's U.S. bishops' conference meeting constituted a rejection of some of the more arch-conservative candidates in favor…
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…
As Francis gets some much-needed rest inside Vatican walls ahead of the longest international trip of his papacy in September, three potential f…
Franciscan Catechist Sr. Laura Vicuña Pereira Manso tells NCR the synod on synodality "will open up ways for us to continue the conversation."
"Accompanying the Indigenous people and listening to their dreams has been a reaffirmation of my vocation," says Sr. Zully Rojas Quispe, provinc…
Jesus told us in John 3 the Spirit is like the wind whose origins and future direction is yet unknown to us. Why then confine ourselves to a lim…
No Bullet Got Me Yet is a collection of letters written by, to and about Emil Kapaun, a Catholic priest and army chaplain in the Korean War. Kap…
Chris Lawton was a medical doctor. Dan Macalinao was a biological researcher. The two are now also the newest Paulist priests. They told NCR abo…
At a ceremony to award the Presidential Medal of Freedom President Joe Biden said Jesuit Fr. Greg Boyle, founder of Homeboy Industries, "changed…
Time will tell if rumors about Archbishop Georg Gänswein getting a new job as a Vatican ambassador are true, writes Renardo Schlegelmilch. For n…
At a time when our politics is so polarized, the need to present Catholic social teaching as pre-political has never been greater, writes NCR co…
Stephen Schneck, member of the U.S. Commission on International Religious Liberty, says in a lecture at Boston College's Boisi Center that peopl…
Changing the church's discipline on celibacy is both easier and harder than other proposed changes to the structures of the church's ministry, w…
At age 88, Bill McNulty is an American peace movement long-termer. A retired teacher and former Army artillery officer, his opposition to milita…
In the last years of her life, avowed agnostic Denise Levertov turned to faith — crediting her poetry for her conversion.
The Vatican wishes to project an image of prayerful harmony. The media, on the other hand, thrives on conflict. You will never read a headline s…