This year, give the Lord a gift: pray the Rosary with your family
Few know the special power of the Rosary recited in the home – a practice that produced saints like Padre Pio and Bartolo Longo – and how pleasing it is to God.
Your thoughts on Latin Mass idealogues
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to an essay from contributor Stephen G. Adubato cautioning Latin Mass detractors to take a step back and look at the other reasons people are drawn to this particular liturgy.
The Nativity of the Lord (Christmas) Mass at Dawn: God's entry into everydayness
Scripture for Life: Today, we celebrate God’s entry into our everydayness. Our Nativity scenes remind us that God has taken flesh like ours as one of the humblest. Luke invites us to enter into the scene with both the shepherds and with Mary.
Let's make a place for all 'Holy Families' fleeing political violence this Christmas
This Christmas season, we are called to welcome families fleeing Afghanistan and help them find security in the midst of their dislocation and struggle. We are the called to be the political actors in Matthew’s Gospel. This is how we will know that Emmanuel is indeed with us.
Simple Advent Revisited: Jesus, the guiding star to a simple, abundant life
Simple Advent Revisited: This Christmas Season, we welcome the Holy Family into our hearts and invite Jesus to help clear out whatever prevents us from living gently on the earth.
A future with little to no snow? What that means for the American West
Covering Climate Now: A new study hopes to inspire water managers — and the rest of us — to begin planning for how climate change will dramatically reduce snowpack.
The radical, healing message of 'A Christmas Carol'
A Christmas Carol is a mirror of our world: choked by disease, inequity and poverty, with the gap between the wealthy and the poor seemingly insurmountable. Until, by the grace of grace, it’s not. Until a heart of stone is broken open.
Mental health emergency calls us to support others — especially young adults —at holidays
As people of faith preparing to celebrate Christmas, remember that not all members of the Body of Christ are coping with personal and collective challenges equally. The moral obligation is to call to mind that suffering exists in many forms and recognize that we can all do something to support one another and ourselves.
Custos, in Christmas message, highlights economic plight of Holy Land Christians (Custody of the Holy Land)
Since the 13th century, Franciscan friars have been present in the Holy Land, and today they minister at shrines throughout that region. In his Christmas message, the Custos (Franciscan provincial superior), Father Francesco Patton, OFM, said that “for the second consecutive year, here in Bethlehem, families are suffering the serious economic consequences of the Covid […]
Oregon town bans churches from serving meals to homeless more than twice a week (Becket Fund)
The city council in Brookings, a town of 6,000 in southwestern Oregon, has restricted church ministries to the homeless “after some city residents complained about safety issues during the hours church ministries were operating their soup kitchens,” according to the report. “Feeding hungry people is at the core of what our church believes Jesus calls […]