Reflections on life, meaning and purpose

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Joy and hope amid struggle at Women of the Church event

Participants at a recent women’s conference expressed hope and optimism about the upcoming synod on synodality and what it might mean for women’s leadership in the church, reports NCR Executive Editor Heidi Schlumpf.  

Oppenheimer’s frown

Cillian Murphy, who beautifully evokes the physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer in Christopher Nolan’s new film, wears, through about 85 percent of the movie, a worried frown. Nolan does not lionize Oppenheimer but presents him consistently as an ambiguous character, a man tormented by inner demons, external enemies, and moral dilemmas. And Oppenheimer’s frown is, it seems […]

El Papa en Portugal: Llamar a los jóvenes y a la Iglesia al encuentro

CIUDAD DEL VATICANO (CNS) — Cuando Lisboa, Portugal, fue anunciada en 2019 como el destino de la 17ª Jornada Mundial de la Juventud, pocos podrían haber imaginado cuán relevante sería el mensaje del viaje del Papa Francisco a la capital portuguesa para la vida de toda la iglesia. Apenas dos meses antes de que el […]