Canadian Cardinal Marc Ouellet turns 80 on June 8. His birthday brings with it the conclusion of an incongruous era at the Vatican, where he walked a fine line representing both past and present papal regimes.
Cardinal Louis Sako, Iraq's top Catholic leader, expressed hope that an upcoming meeting between Iraqi Prime Minister Mohammed Shia al-Sudani and U.S. President Joe Biden may have a positive impact for Christians in Iraq.
Retired Detroit Auxiliary Bishop Thomas Gumbleton has been a member of Pax Christi USA since the national Catholic peace movement's founding in 1972. As Pax Christi nears its 50th anniversary, he spoke to NCR about its impact.
For the first time in his 11-year papacy, Pope Francis has chosen to write his own meditations for the Good Friday Way of the Cross service at Rome's Colosseum, the head of the Vatican press office said.
Our national political community is suffering. So is our church. So are universities. They suffer in different ways, but for the same reasons. There is no simple answer to this problem, but there is a good beginning.
In this episode of "The Vatican Briefing," Xavière Sr. Nathalie Becquart brings listeners inside the Vatican's synod office to discuss how the synodal process is creating "a new style of leadership" for the Catholic Church.
The Gospel of Peace is the culmination of John Dear's lifework, born from decades of prayer, Eucharist, study of Scripture, Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr., Gospel-based action, and writing about Gospel nonviolence.
The first-ever Faith Pavilion at a U.N. climate change conference was inaugurated Dec. 3 in Dubai, with video messages from the pope and the grand imam of Al-Azhar, who both called the world to work for peace and preserving a livable climate.
