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"In My Time of Dying" applies a journalist's rigor and independence to his own time of wavering between being alive and being dead.

Bill Mitchell

The latest project of filmmakers Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno is a pair of documentaries titled "American Women Saints" that focus on Elizabeth Ann Seton and Frances Xavier Cabrini. (Courtesy of Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno and Jerome Bongiorno)

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Married filmmakers release PBS documentaries on 'American Women Saints'

Jon Kalish

In this photo illustration lightning strikes across a night sky, lighting up a body of water below. (Unsplash/Niilo Isotalo)

Scripture for Life

Spirituality

Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time: How storms can deepen the faith

Mary M. McGlone

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June 22, 2024

NCR, Global Sisters Report and EarthBeat win 44 Catholic Media Awards

NCR Staff

June 22, 2024

Vatican communications prefect on using Rupnik art: 'I don't think we have to throw stones'

Paulina Guzik, OSV News

June 21, 2024

New law requires all Louisiana public school classrooms to display the Ten Commandments

Sara Cline, Associated Press

June 21, 2024

Q&A with Sr. Leah Drong, building self-reliance through nursing in Bangladesh

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Former President Donald Trump speaks during a news conference at Trump Tower, May 31, 2024, in New York, a day after a New York jury found Trump guilty of 34 felony charges. (AP photo/Julia Nikhinson)

In Focus

Catholic Trump voters see no choice in upcoming election — even after conviction

Catholics who support Trump say that to vote Democratic would be anathema to their faith and their conservative principles. With a majority of Catholics now trending toward Trump, will the Catholic vote still matter?

Heidi Schlumpf

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Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Vigano, the apostolic nuncio to the United States, is pictured at his residence at the Vatican in this Oct. 20, 2011. (CNS photo/Paul Haring)

Vatican News

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Archbishop Viganò says he faces schism charges from Vatican's doctrinal office

The disgraced former papal nuncio to the United States, Italian Archbishop Carlo Maria Viganò, alleges that he has been charged with schism by the Vatican's doctrinal office, charges he describes as an "honor."

ByChristopher White

Pope Francis engages in a light-hearted moment with comedians Stephen Colbert, Chris Rock, Jimmy Fallon and other comedians after an audience at the Vatican June 14, 2024. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Vatican News

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Pope swaps jokes with Colbert, Fallon and other comedy stars at Vatican

105 comedians from around the world traveled to the Vatican for a papal audience and to "establish a link between the Catholic Church and comic artists," according to the Dicastery for Culture and Education, which organized the meeting.

ByJustin McLellan, Catholic News Service

Bishop Daniel Flores of Brownsville, Texas, speaks June 13 at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops' Spring Plenary Assembly in Louisville, Kentucky. (OSV News/Bob Roller)

NCR Voices

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US bishops still operating distantly from leadership of Pope Francis

What will it take for the U.S. bishops' conference to incorporate Francis' vision for a more synodal church, one capable of deepening an ecclesial self-understanding by attending to the most vulnerable in our midst?

ByMichael Sean Winters

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Steubenville Diocese's leader changes amid consideration of merger with Columbus Diocese

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New book examines conservative Catholics, and it isn't pretty

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Pope Francis: The unintentional star of Rome's 2024 LGBTQ Pride parade

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Emily Claire Schmitt

This Pride month, LGBTQ+ Catholic women speak

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NCR Staff

Your letters: Catholic voters and environment, Naumann and the CCHD, and LGBTQ+ clergy and religious

Letters to the Editor

NCR Staff

Your letters: Catholic voters and environment, Naumann and the CCHD, and LGBTQ+ clergy and religious

Letters to the Editor

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to articles about Pro-Creation voting, Archbishop Naumann's lack of support for the Catholic Campaign for Human Development, and LGBTQ+ clergy and religious.

Jeff Dietrich

Catholic numbers in battleground states make them a good weathervane, and indeed they tend to vote for the winner in presidential elections. If you win Catholics, you probably win the country.

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Vatican News

Defendant in Vatican trial takes case to UN, accuses pope of violating his rights with surveillance

A lawyer for Raffaele Mincione, a London-based financier, submitted a complaint last week to the U.N. Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights via a special procedure that allows individuals or groups to provide the U.N. with information about alleged rights violations in countries or institutions.

Vatican News

Archbishop Viganò says he faces schism charges from Vatican's doctrinal office

ByChristopher White

Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip: Brother Leo, Gabby and Francis are taking a break. The comic will be back soon.

ByPat Marrin

Vatican News

Praying with the Book of Psalms will bring comfort, happiness, pope says

There is a prayer for every state of mind and spiritual need in the Book of Psalms, Pope Francis said.

ByCarol Glatz, Catholic News Service

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Vatican News

Pope, Council of Cardinals continue discussion of women in the church

Francis, the comic strip

Vatican News

Modern martyrs are seeds of Christian witness in the church, pope says

Eugene, a volunteer at Feldman Ecopark near the Russian border in Ukraine, helps push one of the zoo's massive camels onto a truck so that he can be evacuated.

Justice

'Checkpoint Zoo' tells the moving story of a wartime Noah's ark

After Russia invaded Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, one of the most immediately and irrevocably impacted locations was a beloved Ukrainian zoo located close to the Russian border.

Jim McDermott

Large crowd pictured under their umbrellas against mountainous, desert terrain.

Hundreds died during this year's Hajj pilgrimage in Saudi Arabia amid intense heat, officials say

One list suggested at least 550 people died during the five-day Hajj. A 2019 study found that even if the world succeeds in mitigating the worst effects of climate change, the Hajj would be held in temperatures exceeding an "extreme danger threshold" from 2047 to 2052, and from 2079 to 2086.

BySamy Magdy, Associated Press

Pope Francis meets with cosmologists, theoretical physicists and scientists taking part in a conference about black holes and gravitational waves during a private audience at the Vatican June 20, 2024. (CNS/Vatican Media)

Science

Science that serves humanity is in harmony with faith, pope says

The pope's remarks came during an audience at the Vatican June 20 with cosmologists, theoretical physicists, astronomers and other experts who were attending a June 16-21 conference organized by the Vatican Observatory and dedicated to the latest questions, theories and research being done regarding black holes, gravitational waves and space-time singularities.

ByCarol Glatz, Catholic News Service

Wide view of a desiccated pond filled with people

Viewpoints

How to maintain hope in the face of global warming

Yes, the devil is working hard to lead us to despair over global warming, but the Spirit is also alive in many dedicated people doing exciting work in response to climate change, writes Reese.

ByThomas Reese, Religion News Service

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Viewpoints

This election season, vote pro-life by voting pro-creation

Faith

Muslim pilgrims wrap up Hajj pilgrimage in deadly heat

Faith

Through connection to their land, Tarahumara runners are among Mexico's most beloved champions

Culture

Book Reviews

Sebastian Junger's close call with death: A secular investigation of the sacred

"In My Time of Dying" applies a journalist's rigor and independence to his own time of wavering between being alive and being dead.

Bill Mitchell

Married filmmakers release PBS documentaries on 'American Women Saints'

Jerome Bongiorno and Marylou Tibaldo-Bongiorno, whose latest project focuses on Sts. Elizabeth Ann Seton and Frances Xavier Cabrini, see their own Catholic faith as a part of their mission as filmmakers.

ByJon Kalish

"La Llamada," the pop-infused musical making its U.S. debut at Repertorio Español this season in New York, is meant to welcome believers and non-believers alike. (Michael Palma Mir)

New pop musical 'La Llamada' has Catholic fingerprints all over it

"La Llamada," the pop-infused musical making its U.S. debut at Repertorio Español this season in New York, is a reminder that "music, like faith, creates community — and where there is community, there is God."

ByJose Solís