Soul Seeing: We are invited to see the invisible in the visible, to notice and celebrate every miracle of life, whether a tiny twig, a small flower, or a burly human, because everything is bursting with divine life.
Commentary: I am a churchgoing Catholic who does not care for broadcast liturgies. During isolation, I opt for Jesuit Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin's "The Mass on the World."
Commentary: Resilience does not mean we are undisturbed or unharmed. It means we are not defined by or limited to our suffering. We are bigger than our struggle. We are more adaptive than we know.
Distinctly Catholic: Conservative and liberal narratives both start with a reading of American history and then look for religious rationalizations for stances arrived at by other means.
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 December 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.
With a long career in filmmaking, Frank Frost, 78, and his wife, Mary, 72, are working on a documentary about the French Jesuit and paleontologist Pierre Teilhard de Chardin.