Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to our reporting on a procession led by Bishop Joseph Strickland of Tyler, Texas, to Dodger's Stadium on Pride Night, June 16.
Commentary: The athletes of the WNBA have creatively dedicated their professional and personal lives to advance social justice in the United States. They embody justice in authentic and profound ways.
Theology en la Plaza: With a fan's enthusiasm, Pope Francis has produced what might be understood as a "canon within a canon" when it comes to sports and his ongoing development of a theology of encounter.
Not every sports team can claim Pope Francis as its honorary captain. But Athletica Vaticana — a 70-member team that includes bishops, nuns and Swiss guards — is proud to claim the pontiff as one of its own.
The owner of the New Orleans Saints said Monday that the NFL team played no role in determining which priests would be named in the list of "credibly accused" clergy published by the area's Roman Catholic Church.
Commentary: All I could think was how much sex trafficking goes on around the Super Bowl and how Sunday's halftime performance seemed like a hypersexed ad as a subtext for what what's really happening.
Appreciation: Today, we are praying for the repose of the souls of Kobe, his daughter Gianna, and the seven other people who died in the helicopter crash near Calabasas, California, Jan. 26.
The New Orleans Saints are going to court to keep the public from seeing hundreds of emails that allegedly show team executives doing public relations damage control for the area's Roman Catholic archdiocese to help it contain the fallout from a burgeoning sexual abuse crisis.
