Watch: Soul Seeing for Lent host Michael Leach speaks with Franciscan Sr. Ilia Delio about finding God in everything and balancing spirituality and science.
Burning Question: Beyond the birdbaths and the blessing of pets on his Oct. 4 feast day, Francis of Assisi is also known as the patron saint of ecology. What does that mean? Who made that decision? And why?
Commentary: The call is as urgent as it is clear. Even before the pandemic, we understood that we were entering a make-or-break decade for humanity to act to avoid catastrophic climate change and global suffering.
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 September 2019.
Book review: Many of us struggle to see how science and religion can work together, and for many years, Franciscan Sr. Ilia Delio also compartmentalized the two.
Pope Francis' Laudato Si' positioned the church to be a prominent voice on climate change. But despite that energy, there's still a feeling that Catholics have the potential to do more.
Distinctly Catholic: Washington will be welcoming a southern gentleman to its cathedral. I couldn't be happier about the appointment of Archbishop Wilton Gregory to lead the polarized city on the Potomac.
Daily Lenten Reflections: Some of the great discoveries of our time are the revelations identified by the Hubble telescope. We would never have known either the vast immensity of the universe nor the billions of years when it first began its journey.
