USCCB president pays tribute to Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. (USCCB)
Archbishop Timothy Broglio, president of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, has issued a statement for Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. “Dr. King used the Word of God to effect change of hearts and minds,” Archbishop Broglio said of the Baptist minister and leader of the civil rights movement. “Given the issues of migration, […]
Pope, Anglican primate will send forth 25 pairs of prelates to pray and work together (CNS)
Pope Francis and Archbishop Justin Welby, the primate of the Church of England, will jointly send forth 25 pairs of Catholic and Anglican bishops who have pledged to pray and work together on a charitable project. Bishop Brian Farrell, secretary of the Dicastery for Promoting Christian Unity, told Catholic News Service that the event will […]
We need saints like St. Rose of Viterbo, Pope tells sodality (Vatican Press Office)
Receiving members of the Facchini di Santa Rosa [Bearers of Saint Rose] Sodality of Viterbo, Pope Francis said, “We need saints like [her], even today: people who do not stay on the sofa in their slippers, but who, burning with an unbridled desire to live and proclaim the Gospel, with their passion become contagious in […]
Pope to students: Share how Christ has won your heart
Pope Francis welcomes students of the Catholic Committee for Cultural Collaboration with the Orthodox Churches and the Oriental Orthodox Churches and encourages them to share with one another how Christ “won your hearts and laid hold of your lives’ on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Committee’s establishment. Read all
Catholic groups push back against Biden immigration plans
NEW YORK – As Congress negotiates the Fiscal Year 2024 budget, dozens of Catholic organizations have signed joint letters to the Senate and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas opposing immigration proposals in the Biden administration’s supplemental budget request, and questioning the efficacy the measures would have. “It is questionable whether these proposals would in fact […]
African bishops say ‘no’ to blessing of same-sex unions, citing ‘scandal’
YAOUNDÈ, Cameroon – In effect, the Catholic leadership of Africa has issued an emphatic, and unified, “no” in response to a Dec. 18 Vatican declaration authorizing the non-liturgical blessing of same-sex unions, indicating such blessings would cause confusion on the continent and will not be administered. The reaction came in a Jan. 11 letter signed […]
So far, Latin America largely sits out furor over ‘Fiducia Supplicans’
SÃO PAULO – While the Vatican’s recent declaration authorizing blessings of same-sex unions has stirred turmoil across the Catholic world, in Pope Francis’s native Latin America, aside from individual and scattered notes of concern, to date there hasn’t been a real backlash involving whole groups of clergy or bishops. In part, observers say, the relative […]
Letters to the editor on leaving Twitter (aka “X”)
Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to Franciscan Fr. Dan Horan’s “NCR Voices” column where he explains why he finally left Twitter (ala “X”).
A year after Cardinal Pell’s death, allies lament loss of papal critic
Australian Cardinal George Pell died unexpectedly on Jan. 10, 2023, shortly after the death of retired Pope Benedict XVI. A year later, the longing for a return to a more traditional brand of Catholicism continues.
Dems need to stop giving GOP grist for the mill
Allowing Donald Trump’s acolytes to paint all politicians with the same brush hides the uniqueness of the threat he poses, argues NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.