NCR Staff

Pope's quotes: "Why is Jesus so exacting? Because He loved us in this way, making Himself our servant 'to the end,' coming 'to serve, and to give his life.' "

Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of July 2019.

Pope's quotes: "Because faith, which is always God's gift and always to be asked for, must be nurtured by us. It is no magic power which comes down from heaven, it is not a 'talent' which is given once and for all, not a special force for solving life's problems."

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent article about Bishop James Wall of Gallup, New Mexico, announcing that he would begin celebrating Mass in his cathedral ad orientem, that is, "toward the east," with his back to the people.

Your thoughts: More readers responded to the recent article on a Pew Research study that shows that a majority of U.S. Catholics do not believe church teaching about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

Pope's quotes: "God treats us in the same way: He does not indulge our desire to immediately and repeatedly change the world and other people."

Pope's quotes: "Today there is a world war to destroy marriage. Today there are ideological colonisations which destroy, not with weapons, but with ideas."

Your thoughts: Do Catholics 'actually' believe in the Real Presence? A recent Pew Research study shows that a majority of U.S. Catholics do not believe church teaching about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.

Pope's quotes: "You do not know, dear brothers and sisters, you do not know how much children suffer, the little ones, when they witness the arguments and the separation of parents! Everything should be done to save a marriage. But is it normal to have arguments in marriage? Yes, it is normal. It happens."

Your thoughts: Readers respond to NCR's four-part series looking into television network EWTN.

Pope's quotes: "All of us, in our life, have, or will have, dark moments. Also we, who are consecrated, have dark moments. When it seems things are not working out, when there are difficulties in community life, in the diocese, in those moments, what we must do is pause, and remember."

Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of June 2019. 

Your thoughts: In early June, the Vatican office responsible for overseeing Catholic educational institutions around the world put out a document against modern gender theory, claiming that it seeks to "annihilate the concept of 'nature.' "

Pope's quotes: "To be firm in the faith means the capacity to receive faith from others, to conserve that faith and to pass it on."

Your thoughts: Within the past month, NCR published three editorials calling for Catholics to pay attention to the humanitarian crisis happening at our southern border. 

Pope's quotes: "Children, who have no problem in understanding God, have much to teach us: they tell us that He accomplishes great things in those who put up no resistance to Him, who are simple and sincere, without duplicity."

From New York City to the southern border, thousands of pro-immigrant demonstrators in hundreds of cities gathered July 12 to protest Trump Administration immigration policies.

Pope's quotes: "The consolation we need, amid the turmoil we experience in life, is precisely the presence of God in our hearts. God's presence in us is the source of true consolation, which dwells in us, liberates us from evil, brings peace and increases our joy."

Your thoughts: NCR recently published stories outlining differing decisions by two Catholic schools in the Indianapolis Archdiocese when dealing with gay teachers.

Pope's quotes: "The Lord has given this love to us, so that we can love each other as He has loved us."