In a joint statement, black and Hispanic Catholic theologians "condemn the systemic violence, racism and legitimized hatred that diminish the integrity of the United States of America."
My Table is Spread: When Pope Francis exhorted priests to be "shepherds living with the smell of the sheep," he might have been thinking of a priest like Holy Cross Fr. Bill Wack, whom the pope recently chose to become the bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida.
Distinctly Catholic: Fr. Jim Martin is a treasure. He has endured vulgar and childish tweets from others, but his works will be read long after such fire-eaters have been forgotten.
People in Villavicencio, Colombia, where Pope Francis will visit Sept. 8, have prepared for the pontiff by undertaking a pilgrimage with the Cristo de Bojayá, a bombed-out crucifix representing the pain of the country's 50-year war.
Distinctly Catholic: Fr. Jim Martin is a treasure. He has endured vulgar and childish tweets from others, but his works will be read long after such fire-eaters have been forgotten.
NCR Today: Steve Bannon disses Catholic bishops, bishops respond; Fr. Jim Martin attacked by trolls; Who are the Dreamers (little known stats); Pope Francis in Colombia.
NCR Today: Controversy continues over whether Donald Trump can be charged with obstruction of justice in the Russian investigation. How absolute are executive powers?
Michael Sean Winters rounds up political news and commentary: a DACA priest; advice for the Democrats; homophobia in the Catholic Church; a song to stir the soul in dark times.
The Field Hospital: More than 50 residents at an Amityville retirement community ask Bishop John Barres to "make every effort to advance" the proposal to end obligatory priestly celibacy.
The Field Hospital: Parish closures continue; an AIDS memorial slated to go; renovations in Green Bay, Wisconsin; Pittsburgh appeals the Vatican to keep parishes open; Arise in Milwaukee gets the young adults
In Villavicencio, Pope Francis Sept. 8 asked those who had survived a war that killed some 220,000 to set aside their desire for vengeance in order to open the way for reconciliation.
In a joint statement, black and Hispanic Catholic theologians "condemn the systemic violence, racism and legitimized hatred that diminish the integrity of the United States of America."
NCR Today: A friend of mine was released from prison last week. I'll call him Jack. He committed a murder when he was 14, was certified as an adult, and served 29 years in prison.
With each new weather-related disaster, we reel, we moan. we write checks. But can we do more to fortify our communities from more intensifying storms?
A magnitude 8.1 earthquake struck the Pacific coast of southern Mexico and Guatemala, causing buildings to collapse and tremors that rocked as far as Mexico City and Guatemala City.
We say: To prevent irrelevancy, the commission must ensure that survivors have direct participation in its work and the commission itself needs a strong, public endorsement by Francis.
A priest of the Arlington, Virginia, Diocese admits to being in his young adulthood a member of the Klu Klux Klan. The admission and plea for forgiveness ran on the diocesan newspaper website, and he has taken a leave of absence.
Book Review: What happened to Emmett Till and the actions that followed have haunted the American conscience for six decades and served as a key spark of the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement.
Book Review: Everyone leads, not just because that is a structural necessity if we are going to revitalize our church, but because this is simply one aspect of being a baptized Christian.
My Table is Spread: When Pope Francis exhorted priests to be "shepherds living with the smell of the sheep," he might have been thinking of a priest like Holy Cross Fr. Bill Wack, whom the pope recently chose to become the bishop of Pensacola-Tallahassee, Florida.
Updated with comments from Cardinal Dolan: Calling it "insulting," the U.S. bishops responded quickly to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon's allegation that the Catholic Church supports immigration in order to have more Catholics.
Soul Seeing: Each night in my prayer, I wrap God’s encircling, unconditional love around the suffering and the inflictors of the suffering, and yes, they are one with me.
Spiritual Reflections: Our road to Jerusalem offers us glimpses of religious persecution, of refugees turned away from shelter and of billboards advertising a philosophy that proclaims that we will make a better world by putting ourselves first.
In a joint statement, black and Hispanic Catholic theologians "condemn the systemic violence, racism and legitimized hatred that diminish the integrity of the United States of America."
No stranger to internet trolls, the media-savvy Jesuit says attacks have "really intensified" since the publication of his book Building a Bridge, about LGBT Catholics and the church.
Theater: On a prison tour, Liza Jessie Peterson found an appreciative audience for her play "The Peculiar Patriot." After 14 years, it's now premiering at Harlem's National Black Theatre.
Global Sisters Report: As deportation hangs over up to 800,000 people, Catholic leaders react to the Trump administration's announcement that it will end DACA.
Sisters of Divine Providence are working to sustain impoverished ethnic villagers in the Binh Phuoc Province, bordering Cambodia, where people subsist on very little money or food.
