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"The transition to a cleaner future can also be a transition to a more just and equitable future," former Vice President Al Gore said  to about 100 representatives of Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Native American traditions at a Black Interfaith Project event on May 17.

The synod on synodality calls bishops to listen to those who feel excluded. NCR interviewed diocesan officials, lay ministers and pastors in several dioceses to see how local churches are seeking out Catholics on the margins.

Distinctly Catholic: Given the unwillingness of Republicans to resist Donald Trump's anti-democratic schemes, President Joe Biden's approval rating may be key to preserving our democracy.

Distinctly Catholic: President Joe Biden delivered his first address to Congress last night. It was not the best speech we have heard. It was some of the best politics we have heard in a long time.

Fr. Min Seo Park was recently appointed chaplain of both Gallaudet University and the Washington Archdiocese's Deaf Ministries. Hundreds watched his first livestreamed Mass in American Sign Language.

Fr. Emmet Farrell developed daily Lenten reflections to help Catholics better understand climate change as one of the world's most pressing moral issues. EarthBeat will publish them three days a week.

A new survey reports more than a quarter of white evangelicals believe a QAnon conspiracy theory that purports Donald Trump is secretly battling a cabal of pedophile Democrats, and roughly half believe the false claim that antifa was responsible for the Capitol insurrection.

Distinctly Catholic: Donald Trump's second impeachment trial has begun. Already it is harder to tell which is more remarkable: the frightening facts of the case, or the rhetorical gymnastics of Trump's defenders.