The Portland Archdiocese's Ministerio Hispano went from an office with two staff members and a website to an inaccessible website and one staffer with the title "director" but who has full-time work elsewhere.
A number of high-profile Catholics have ties to, and influence on, Donald Trump. Here is a brief overview of some key Catholic advisers and supporters who are expected at the GOP convention in Milwaukee next week.
Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, the disgraced former papal nuncio to the United States who questioned the legitimacy of Pope Francis and the authority of the Second Vatican Council, has been found guilty of schism and excommunicated, the Vatican announced on July 5.
Archbishop Christopher Coyne of Hartford, Connecticut, noted his disappointment in the U.S. bishops' conference's decision to dramatically slash its staff in the social justice department.
Will the 40 or so U.S. bishops who rushed out with statements supporting Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò's call for Pope Francis to resign now withdraw their support?
Specific agendas will frustrate the synodal process because it is well-nigh impossible to listen to the Holy Spirit if we insist on trying to achieve our particular goals, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to articles about traditionalism, the bishops' new document on abuse of Indigenous peoples, and the USCCB's Eucharistic hypocrisy.
The Vatican on July 14 expressed "concern" over the assassination attempt on former President Donald Trump and said the attack "wounds people and democracy, causing suffering and death."
The General Secretariat for the Synod of Bishops released the names of members of two sets of study groups that have been conducting an in-depth look into several themes that emerged during the first assembly of the synod on synodality in 2023.
A statement released by the Dicastery for the Doctrine of the Faith July 11 revealed that a ruling of "constat de non supernauralitate" — a judgment declaring that a phenomenon is not supernatural — was reached in 1974 by the then-Sacred Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith and approved by St. Paul VI regarding the alleged apparitions and revelations of "The Lady of All Nations."
"I ask you to show the world that we are united in asking for a proactive commitment to protect human dignity in this new era of machines," Pope Francis wrote in a message to participants of a conference on AI ethics which hosted representatives from 11 world religions.
A legal complaint says a 10-foot aquatic statue of the Greek god of the sea Poseidon in the Gulf of Mexico offended the beliefs of local Maya Indigenous groups who prefer their own local god of water, known as Chaac.
After posting on Facebook about his new electrical vehicle, Bishop Edward Weisenburger of the Diocese of Tucson, Arizona, received both praise and skepticism.
Sociologist Allison Pugh explores this "connective labor" — work that "involves 'seeing' the other and reflecting that understanding back" — in her new book, The Last Human Job: The Work of Connecting in a Disconnected World.
"Lost" debuted in 2004 in a time of conflict and distrust as America reeled through the post-9/11 years. Today, we still need stories like "Lost" to remind us that we either live together or we die alone.
In her new book, In the Shadow of Freedom: The Enduring Call for Racial Justice, Black Catholic author Alessandra Harris argues that the United States is still not necessarily a place of freedom for all.
"For the past forty years, [Sr. Hilkert] has leavened and led the theological community in major academic institutions, international venues, and our guild itself," said president Kristin Heyer at the ceremony.
As the administrator of the St. Joseph's Home for Children near Zagreb, Croatia, Sr. Marija Lucija Eršek gives children safety, structure and order — things that they often do not have in their families.
The recent Giving Voice National Gathering "challenged me to surrender my ideas of what the future of religious life will look like and to put greater trust in God," writes Sr. Kathryn Press.
Child advocates, former victims and even entire families who serve as advocates vouch for the difference the parish-based Salvatorian Pastoral Care for Children has made in the lives of children, teens and adults.
