The longtime Irish Times religion reporter Patsy McGarry is a conscience of Ireland. In Well, Holy God, he tells his own story, while shedding light on the Catholic Church abuse crisis that jolted Irish identity.
"Heretic," starring Hugh Grant, is a cat-and-mouse thriller and theological procedural. Grant, actors Sophie Thatcher and Chloe East, and writer-directors Scott Beck and Bryan Woods spoke to NCR about the film.
In Perfect Eloquence, journalist Tom Hoffarth has assembled an entertaining, detailed and assuming history of Vin Scully's long, charmed life in the form of 67 essays by people who knew him.
When Matthew LaBanca was fired by the Brooklyn Diocese in 2021 for marrying his same-sex partner, he lost two jobs, health insurance and a cherished Catholic community. He stars in a play about his experience that opens Nov. 7.
Who poses the greatest threat to the survival of American democracy today? Tom Schaller and Paul Waldman argue in 'White Rural Rage' that the answer is clear.
The grand finale of the 2024 baseball season is just getting started, as the cross-country World Series pits the Los Angeles Dodgers against the New York Yankees. But for the A's priest, baseball came to a mournful end last month.
Prisca Dorcas Mojica Rodríguez's latest book, Tías and Primas: On Knowing and Loving the Women Who Raise Us, examines 20 female archetypes in Latinx families, masterfully reintroducing them as familiar intercessors and flawed patron saints.
In a time of deserved mistrust against religious institutions, "Conclave" makes a compelling and ecclesial call for a renewed spiritual stewardship characterized by humility, meekness and, curiously, doubt.
If you're among the Catholics disappointed by the synod's failure to sufficiently amplify the voices and perspectives of women, you might take heart in one (or all) of the many female-led films being released this fall.
