Americans have a choice about the planned livestream, writes Joe Ferullo: " To protest. To yell. To march. Or to watch. These choices will tell us just how far we have fallen, and who we really are."
The Catholic tradition is the catalog of Catholics responding to the Holy Spirit in their own time. It is also a catalog of how previous generations of Christians were often blinded by their cultural circumstances.
Ten years later, the lesson of Chapter 8 is clear: The church does not become less faithful when she discerns, but when she ceases to do so, Rafael Luciani writes.
Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to stories about multilateralism, diocesan restrictions of the reception of communion under both kinds and the culture of the Roman Catholic hierarchy.
The young Francis of Assisi knew both the pleasures and dangers of male fraternity intimately. Eight hundred years after Francis' death, that story can give us a new lens on what fraternity can and should mean.
"The blue wave is rising, and while it may not lift all boats, it is apparently lifting some. And religion is part of the story," Michael Sean Winters writes.
Long before the Catholic Church officially rejected capital punishment, Catholic stories and saints imagined divine mercy accompanying the guilty all the way to the gallows.
