Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent column that pointed out that the church should be concerned how the "inherently sinful" discrimination against LGBTQ folks has young people walking away.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our recent report on new diocesan-approved policies or guidelines on gender identity and sexual orientation that some advocates say harm students.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a commentary that points out the masculine aggression evident in actor Shia LaBeouf's conversation with Bishop Robert Barron.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent column analyzing President Joe Biden's speech denouncing Trumpism as a threat to the "very foundations of our republic."
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent essay by Fr. Peter Daly about spending time as a caregiver for his dear friend and learning about love and loss.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our coverage of the Napa Institute's annual conference, where speakers celebrated the Supreme Court's recent overturning of Roe v. Wade.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent commentary in which NCR contributor David E. DeCosse writes about changing his mind on criminalizing abortion after reflecting on the full implications of the dignity of women.
Your thoughts: NCR reader respond to the news that Pope Francis appointed three women to the Vatican's Dicastery for Bishops, allowing women to advise on which priests to appoint as bishops.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese column on Pope Francis' new apostolic letter that decries the division over the Eucharist.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent commentary that reminds us the importance of moral considerations when debating legislation on abortion.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our editorial in which we argue that making abortion illegal is not the only way to bring about a reduction in the number of abortions in this country.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the news of Pope Francis naming 16 new cardinal electors, including Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, California.
Your thoughts: More NCR readers respond to the controversy over San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone barring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Communion unless she publicly repudiates her position on legal abortion.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the controversy over San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone barring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Communion unless she publicly repudiates her position on legal abortion.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent column by Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese in which he says that there are numerous signs that the Catholic Church is failing in Western countries.
Your thoughts: NCR readers comment on a recent opinion piece by an anti-abortion and disability advocate who says criminalizing abortions will not stop them because having access to abortion isn't what causes them.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to Bishop Robert McManus' request for a Catholic school in Worcester, Massachusetts, to remove its Black Lives Matter and gay pride flags.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent analysis that asked Catholic moral theologians, Catholic health care ethicists and Catholic women who view themselves as pro-life what they think about the more extreme anti-abortion restrictions.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to Patrick O'Neill being sanctioned by the Knights of Columbus for his federal conviction and sentencing after participating in the Kings Bay Plowshares action.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the importance of a recent Pew study that highlights the religious beliefs, practices and experiences of Black Catholics in the United States.
Your thoughts: NCR readers share their thoughts on a recent commentary that suggests the process in which the Catholic Church converts new members should be updated and reconsidered.
Your thoughts: NCR readers weigh in on the U.S. Catholic bishops' plan for a multi-year $28 million national Eucharistic revival to focus on "real presence."
Your thoughts: More NCR readers respond to the news of baptisms performed by a Phoenix pastor being declared invalid because the priest said "We baptize" instead of "I baptize."
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the news of baptisms performed by a Phoenix pastor being declared invalid because the priest said "We baptize" instead of "I baptize."
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the recent transgender policy released by the Milwaukee Archdiocese stipulating that parishes, schools and other Catholic organizations must require people to use bathrooms associated with their birth gender.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent commentary that says Pope Francis' view that couples who choose not to have children are selfish show the church's narrow view on reproduction and marriage.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to two recent pieces about clergy sexual abuse. One says that even 20 years after the "Spotlight" investigation, the full story is yet to be told, and the other calls for hierarchal culture to be held accountable.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our recent reports on how right-wing Catholic causes have received millions from a dark money group that also funded some Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol rioters.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a column that presents ways the Catholic Church can support women in crisis pregnancies with national-level advocacy efforts.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our choice for 2021 Newsmaker of the Year, Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, who we called a "failed culture warrior."
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent column that asks what better witness the power of an unpredictable God than to raise up the Messiah from the least powerful of humans.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to an essay from contributor Stephen G. Adubato cautioning Latin Mass detractors to take a step back and look at the other reasons people are drawn to this particular liturgy.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a Catholic Worker's argument that champions of Dorothy Day's canonization cause are occasioning the very dismissal she feared.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone's decision not to get vaccinated against the coronavirus, contradicting Pope Francis' call to get vaccinated as an act of love.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a commentary recounting countless stories from Catholics who have experienced harm by priests in the confessional booth.
Your thoughts: More NCR readers respond to a speech from Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, calling modern social justice movements anti-Christian "pseudo-religions."
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a speech from Los Angeles Archbishop José Gomez, calling modern social justice movements anti-Christian "pseudo-religions."
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent column from NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters, who wonders if retired Archbishop Charles Chaput is heading into a schism.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent article about Anne Tropeano, who has chosen to be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest, thus breaking the Catholic Church's ban on the ordination of women.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our interview with musician Audrey Assad in her first interview with a Catholic publication about leaving the church.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent commentary that says that some Catholics are leaving traditionalist parishes due to bigotry and toxicity.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent column about statements from U.S. bishops that dismiss the reality of transgender persons and their lived experiences.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our reporting on Catholic bishops' conferences in southern states that have chosen not to take positions on voting restrictions.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the Napa Institute summer conference's announcement of a lecture series at the University of Notre Dame and its commitment to fight the culture wars.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent commentary that says a Communion ban would misrepresent Democratic-voting Catholics' position on abortion.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to Pope Francis' crack down on the spread of the old Latin Mass, reversing one of Pope Benedict XVI's signature decisions in a major challenge to traditionalist Catholics.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our latest editorial in which we say that everyone has a moral obligation to get vaccinated against COVID-19 unless they have a legitimate medical condition prohibiting from them doing so.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to an essay pointing out the deep dysfunction in the U.S. bishops' conference and an editorial reminding us that the bishops may lead our church, but it's not their church.
Your thoughts: Even more NCR readers respond to the news that the U.S. bishops advanced plans to draft a document addressing Communion for pro-choice Catholic politicians.
Your thoughts: More NCR readers respond to the news that the U.S. bishops advanced plans to draft a document addressing Communion for pro-choice Catholic politicians.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the news that the U.S. bishops advanced plans to draft a document addressing Communion for pro-choice Catholic politicians.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the news of the discovery of 215 bodies buried on the site of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in Kamloops, British Columbia.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our latest editorial in which we dare the U.S. bishops to go ahead and discuss a proposal for a teaching document about Communion.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister's latest column about standing up with Rep. Liz Cheney in her call to tell the truth about the 2020 election results.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to Virgina Sen. Tim Kaine's commentary about the U.S. bishops contemplating a declaration that some public officials are unworthy to receive Communion.
Your thoughts: A recent article pointed out how many Catholics who have left the church since 2016 cite their coreligionists' alliance with the MAGA movement as a key factor in their decision.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the news of the letter released by San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone calling for public figures who support abortion to be barred from Communion.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent Villanova University panel that intensified the debate about denying President Joe Biden Communion because of his support of legal abortion.
Your thoughts: NCR readers remember Hans Küng, the celebrated and controversial Swiss theologian, who died April 6 at his home in Tübingen, Germany, at age 93.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our editorial saying that Pope Francis' decision to approve the CDF decree on not offering same-sex couples a blessing is strikingly out of character.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the March 15 announcement from the Vatican that priests cannot bless same-sex unions since God "cannot bless sin."
Your thoughts: Readers respond to our recent editorial that expresses frustration with the U.S. bishops sowing doubt about vaccines and relief that promote the common good.
Your thoughts: In a commentary for NCR, Rebecca Bratten Weiss wrote about Bishop Robert Barron's recent piece that used the term "beige Catholicism" to refer to the faith of liberal or progressive Catholics.
Your thoughts: It is a controversial tradition, but six U.S. presidents have spoken at the University of Notre Dame's commencement exercises, and a total of nine presidents have received honorary degrees. But will our nation's second Catholic president be invited to speak?
Your thoughts: The U.S. bishops' conference disbanded its controversial working group formed to deal with President Joe Biden, showing that the leadership might have recognized their stance was ill-considered.
Your thoughts: NCR posted two recent opinion pieces about the rise of liberal Catholicism since the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Or, have we been here all along?
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent opinion piece by Franciscan Sr. Fran Ferder and Fr. John Heagle that says many Catholics who voted for former President Donald Trump because of his "pro-life" stance were conned by the con artist himself.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our Jan. 7 editorial, in which we write that among those with some culpability for the failed Jan. 6 insurrection are more than a few leaders in the Catholic Church.
Your thoughts: With the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, revisit letters to the editor responding to an article about why some Catholics support President Donald Trump.
Your thoughts: In a recent column, NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters discusses an article by Archbishop Charles Chaput talking about whether President-elect Joe Biden should receive Communion.
Your thoughts: Public opinion over statues of St. Junípero Serra — and the church's legacy toward Indigenous people of the West Coast — is divided, but Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has been holding exorcisms at the sites where Serra's statues were toppled.
Your thoughts: Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister says her mother told her that something can be learned in everything. And Chittister learned a lot of lessons from someone she didn't expect — President Donald Trump.
Your thoughts: The president of the U.S. bishops' conference surprised some fellow bishops at the end of the virtual assembly with the announcement of the formation of a working group to examine President-elect Joe Biden's stance on abortion.
Your thoughts: With the release of the Vatican's report on former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, one figure was mentioned over and over again, St. John Paul II.
Your thoughts: Thomas P. Doyle reviews a new book that examines clergy sexual abuse, in which the author's research is "nothing short of remarkable, stunning and most importantly, authentic."
Your thoughts: You may have seen the recent news that Pope Francis said in a new documentary, "Francesco," that he supports civil union laws for same-sex couples, which, as NCR reported, is not really that recent of news.
Your thoughts: In his latest Soul Seeing column, Michael Leach writes about how he needs to forgive President Donald Trump, no matter how hard it is to do so.
Your thoughts: A recent column from Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese has stirred up the debate again in the news that changing the words of the formula for baptism renders the sacrament invalid.
Your thoughts: Here's a sampling of letters to the editor from our readers in response to articles and columns that appeared on NCRonline in September 2020.
Your thoughts: Recently, President Donald Trump announced his nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. A graduate of Notre Dame Law School, Barrett's ties to the charismatic Christian religious group, People of Praise, has come into question.
Your thoughts: A new papal encyclical, entitled "Fratelli tutti" in Italian or "Brothers and Sisters All," will be coming out soon. Prominent Catholic women are raising objections to the title because it uses the Italian masculine plural to address the world's population.
Your thoughts: More NCR readers responded to the recent Vatican instructions that Catholic parishes should normally be led by priests. The Vatican also announced that changing the words of the formula for baptism renders the sacrament invalid, causing a bit of a theological debate.
Your thoughts: Former Vice President Joe Biden, the Democratic nominee for president, made the historic announcement that Sen. Kamala Harris was his vice president pick, the first woman of color to be on a major party presidential ticket.
Your thoughts: A month ago, the Vatican reiterated that Catholic parishes should normally be led by priests, stressing that arrangements for religious sisters or laypeople to head local parish communities can only be made when there is a shortage of ordained ministers.
Your thoughts: An article on the Catholic Church and race was pulled from Sojourners website recently, sparking a controversy that eventually saw two resignations, the appointment of a new editor-in-chief and the republication of the article.
Your thoughts: NCR recently profiled two prominent Catholic politicians, Attorney General William Barr and presumptive Democratic presidential nominee and former vice president Joe Biden.
Your thoughts: Each month, NCR gathers up a sampling of letters to the editor from our readers in response to articles and columns that appear on NCRonline. This week, we will focus on letters received in June 2020.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to Heidi Schlumpf's column that says U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez represents the demographic future of the Catholic Church, but also represents the church in her passion for justice and human dignity.
Your thoughts: NCR reported that New York Cardinal Timothy Dolan sent copies of a book about qualities desirable for a future pope to all 222 cardinals around the world. This public lobbying for possible candidates of the papacy goes against longstanding practices.
Your thoughts: Each month, NCR gathers up a sampling of letters to the editor from our readers in response to articles and columns that appear on NCRonline. This week, we will focus on letters received in May 2020.
Your thoughts: NCR recently published a column from Fr. Peter Daly, in which he announced that after 33 years of membership, he is quitting the Knights of Columbus.
Your thoughts: On June 6, Archbishop Carlo Mario Viganò, the former papal nuncio to the U.S., published a letter to President Donald Trump in which he praised the president and used veiled language about "the children of light and the children of darkness."
Your thoughts: The powerful essay written by Fr. Bryan Massingale on racism and white privilege is full of wisdom and weighty statements such as this: "The only reason for racism's persistence is that white people continue to benefit from it."
Your thoughts: With the U.S. bishops' conference outlining guidelines for parishes to begin opening their doors for Mass again, there are those who believe it is too soon to open up and those who can't wait to get inside their church again.
Your thoughts: Each month, NCR gathers up a sampling of letters to the editor from our readers in response to articles and columns that appear on NCRonline. This week, we will focus on letters received in April 2020.
Your thoughts: Our readers are still talking about the involvement of Catholic clergy in political causes in regards to that phone call President Donald Trump held with several Catholic bishops, and other leaders.
Your thoughts: The involvement of Catholic clergy in political causes continues to be the topic of conversation on NCR's site in regards to that now perhaps famous phone call President Donald Trump held with several Catholic bishops, and other leaders. As promised, here are responses to our editorial.
Your thoughts: In the past two weeks, the involvement of Catholic clergy in political causes has been a hot topic at NCR. It stems from a phone call President Donald Trump held with several Catholic bishops, and other leaders, supposedly about Catholic education.
Your thoughts: Each month, NCR gathers up a sampling of letters to the editor received to our inbox relating to our articles and columns. This week, we will focus on letters received in March 2020.
Your thoughts: On April 8, Pope Francis announced he had created a new commission to study the ordaining of women as deacons in the Catholic Church. This is the second commission on the topic under Francis, however several members of this new commission seem to be opposed to women deacons.
Your thoughts: In a recent editorial, we wrote that "Catholics who bought the single-issue strategy find themselves stuck in what once was a fun house now turned house of horrors."
Your thoughts: Weeks into the coronavirus pandemic and with no real end in sight, NCR is committed to bringing our readers comprehensive coverage of the crisis.
Your thoughts: Just a month ago, in what now seems like a different time, NCR published a commentary from Gabe Moran calling to revisit Andrew Greeley's idea of a "Priest Corps."
Your thoughts: Just a month ago, the Catholic world was reeling with the news that Jean Vanier, the beloved founder of L'Arche International had sexually abused six adult women.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of January 2020.
Your thoughts: Last month, NCR published a three-part series by National Correspondent Heidi Schlumpf that focused on Matthew Kelly, an influential Catholic author and speaker. The series looked into his life, his finances and his program for parishes.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of December 2019.
Your thoughts: The saga of retired Pope Benedict XVI and Pope Francis and the question of priestly celibacy made for some interesting news a few weeks ago.
Your thoughts: In two recent opinion pieces at NCR, the political aspects of the abortion debate were discussed, asking for a change in how we talk about abortion and pointing out how both sides are falling short.
Your thoughts: As the impeachment trial of President Donald Trump gets underway, it's a good time to remind NCR readers that Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi was chosen as our 2019 Newsmaker of the Year.
Your thoughts: Two recent NCR Connections columns by executive editor Tom Roberts highlighted thoughts on the culture of clericalism by a Jesuit priest and a former Dominican priest.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of November 2019
Your thoughts: Last week, NCR posted a piece by Don Clemmer on the role of eulogies at Catholic funerals in the Chicago Archdiocese. The revised guidelines were released by Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich in November.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of October 2019.
Your thoughts: National Catholic Reporter followed the U.S. bishops' conference fall assembly closely as usual, with national correspondent Heidi Schlumpf and columnist Michael Sean Winters representing our publication in Baltimore.
Your thoughts: The possibility of married priests and women deacons were discussed numerous times during the synod on the Amazon last month and the ideas are still floating around the church.
Your thoughts: Two recent opinion pieces at NCR have caused a stir within our readership. One says the traditional Latin Mass is toxic, while the other proclaims its beauty.
Your thoughts: When Former Vice President Joe Biden attended Mass at St. Anthony Church Oct. 27, he was refused the Eucharist by the pastor. That snub has stirred up a recurring debate in the church.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of September 2019.
Your thoughts: The Synod of Bishops for the Amazon is winding down this weekend, but what decisions come out in the final documents could lead to some big changes for the Catholic Church. Discussions have been swirling around two topics in particular: married priests and women deacons.
Your thoughts: As one of National Catholic Reporter's regular columnists, Michael Sean Winters receives a lot of responses to his opinions published regularly on this site.
Your thoughts: After publishing letters to the editor on the impeachment proceedings of President Donald Trump, another editorial was published calling on our nation to uphold our principles.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of August 2019.
Your thoughts: NCR published two editorials this week on two very different topics. The first addressed the formal impeachment procedings of President Donald Trump, whiile the second talked about the upcoming Synod of Bishops for the Amazon.
Your thoughts: Pope Francis warned Sept. 10 that ideology is "infiltrating" the religious teaching of some quarters of the U.S. Catholic Church, and said that in past centuries such infiltrations have led to schisms.
Your thoughts: More NCR readers wrote in with thoughts on Bishop James Wall's recent annoucement that he would begin celebrating Mass in his cathedral ad orientem, that is, "toward the east," with his back to the people.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of July 2019.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent article about Bishop James Wall of Gallup, New Mexico, announcing that he would begin celebrating Mass in his cathedral ad orientem, that is, "toward the east," with his back to the people.
Your thoughts: More readers responded to the recent article on a Pew Research study that shows that a majority of U.S. Catholics do not believe church teaching about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
Your thoughts: Do Catholics 'actually' believe in the Real Presence? A recent Pew Research study shows that a majority of U.S. Catholics do not believe church teaching about the real presence of Jesus in the Eucharist.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of June 2019.
Your thoughts: In early June, the Vatican office responsible for overseeing Catholic educational institutions around the world put out a document against modern gender theory, claiming that it seeks to "annihilate the concept of 'nature.' "
Your thoughts: Within the past month, NCR published three editorials calling for Catholics to pay attention to the humanitarian crisis happening at our southern border.
Your thoughts: NCR recently published stories outlining differing decisions by two Catholic schools in the Indianapolis Archdiocese when dealing with gay teachers.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Here is a sampling of letters received in the month of May 2019.
Your thoughts: The U.S. bishops' conference held their annual spring assembly June 11-14 where they took further steps into accountability and transparency in dealing with clergy sexual abuse.
Your thoughts: Recently, James Carroll wrote an article for The Atlantic calling for the priesthood to be abolished. NCR published three different responses to Carroll's call.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of April 2019.
Your thoughts: Letters to the editor in reaction to NCR's recent editorial on abortion, in which we wrote about the extreme attitudes of state legislatures in New York and Alabama and how there is a reasonable compromise.
Your thoughts: Some big news out of the Vatican on new laws mandating reporting of abuse or its cover-up, and Pope Francis handing over a report from the commission on women deacons.
Your thoughts: Two recent NCR editorials shared a common thread of division within the Catholic Church. "Bannon's emerging anti-Francis movement threatens church unity" and "One pope is quite enough" sparked a fury of conversation on social media and in NCR's letter to the editor inbox.
Your thoughts: More reader responses to Pope Benedict XVI's letter that blamed the continuing Catholic clergy abuse crisis on the sexual revolution, developments in theology following the Second Vatican Council, and modern society's aversion to speaking about God.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Here is a sampling of letters received in the month of March 2019.
Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to Pope Benedict XVI's recent letter, in which he blamed the continuing Catholic clergy abuse crisis on the sexual revolution and the Second Vatican Council.
Your thoughts: NCR readers shared their thoughts on our editorial following the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas' decision to deny admission of a kindergarten student with same-sex parents.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of February 2019.
Your thoughts: The third installment of NCR reader responses to Melinda Henneberger's perspective on why she is leaving the church, and the counterpoint from Fr. David Knight asking Henneberger to "hang in there."
Your thoughts: NCR's recent editorial "Pietà offers meaning amid the betrayal of the abuse crisis" elicited some strong reactions from our readers. The editorial goes hand-in-hand with Jason Berry's three-part commentary on look at how the sex abuse crisis has reached this point.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of January 2019.
Your thoughts: Just before Christmas, NCR published an editorial announcing former Cardinal Theodore McCarrick as our publication's choice for Newsmaker of the Year. Many NCR readers wrote letters to the editor in reaction to our pick.
Your thoughts: After NCR published letters to the editor received from all over the globe to an opinion piece published Dec. 18 titled "Is sipping from the Communion cup a hazard to your health?," even more letters flooded our inbox.
Your thoughts: NCR received hundreds of reader responses to Melinda Henneberger's "Why I left the church, and what I'm hearing about it" perspective and its counterpoint "Memo to Henneberger: The logical thing is to 'hang in there' " written by Fr. David Knight.
Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of December 2018.
Your thoughts: Letters to the editor from all over the globe were received at NCR in response to an opinion piece published Dec. 18 titled "Is sipping from the Communion cup a hazard to your health?"
Your thoughts: In this edition of NCR's online letters to the editor column, NCR collected responses to Phyllis Zagano's column calling for women to run dioceses; plus reactions to many more online stories.
Your thoughts: In this edition of NCR's online letters to the editor column, NCR collected the dozens upon dozens of responses to our open letter to bishops' editorial.