Heidi Schlumpf

Heidi Schlumpf is NCR senior correspondent. Her email address is hschlumpf@ncronline.org. Follow her on Twitter: @HeidiSchlumpf.

Schlumpf was previously NCR's executive editor and a national correspondent. As national correspondent, Schlumpf did in-depth coverage on the influence of money in the church, sex abuse, politics, women's issues, racism and young people in the church. Her work has included investigations into Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN), Fellowship of Catholic University Students (FOCUS) and popular Catholic author Matthew Kelly. She previously wrote an opinion column for NCR for almost a decade.

Schlumpf has three decades of experience covering religion, spirituality, social justice and women's issues, having previously served as managing editor of U.S. Catholic magazine and as a reporter at Chicago's archdiocesan newspaper and secular newspapers in California and Wisconsin. Her work has been published by CNN Opinion, Sojourners and Huffington Post. She taught journalism as an associate professor of communication at Aurora University in Illinois.

A graduate of the University of Notre Dame, she also earned a master's of theological studies from Garrett Evangelical Theological Seminary at Northwestern University, where she studied with feminist theologian Rosemary Radford Ruether.

She is the author/editor of three books, including Elizabeth A. Johnson: Questing for God (Liturgical Press, 2016), the Notre Dame Book of Prayer (Ave Maria, 2010) and While We Wait: Spiritual & Practical Advice for Those Trying to Adopt (ACTA, 2009).

Schlumpf is based in Chicago, where she lives with her husband, Edmund, and their two children, and where she is a member of St. Gertrude Parish.

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Sep 27, 2017

Morning Briefing

Morning Briefing: Pope launches campaign to welcome migrants; Minn. diocese settles in lawsuit against bishop; heresy accusations against pope are disturbing pattern; and more

Sep 26, 2017

Graham-Cassidy bill killed, Catholic health advocates hope bipartisan work continues

Updated: Catholic health advocates who fought the Graham-Cassidy bill are hoping members of Congress will return to bipartisan work on improvements to the health care law.

Sep 21, 2017

Catholic poverty advocates fear children's insurance program could be cancelled

A program that provides low-cost health insurance to nearly 9 million children in the United States is facing a Sept. 30 deadline for renewal of its federal funding, amid Congressional efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act.

Sep 19, 2017

'New Pro-Life Movement' co-founder loses job, attacked online

Rebecca Bratten Weiss believes the same colleagues who gathered "evidence" for a LifeSiteNews article targeting her also contributed to the loss of Steubenville adjunct contract.

Sep 13, 2017

Morning Briefing

Morning Briefing: Gary Otte is the 1,460 person executed in the U.S. since 1976; travel ban stays for now; faith-based groups do the most for hurricane recovery; catch up with the Council of Cardinals and with Jesuit Fr. Tom Reese's take on Magnum Principium

Sep 11, 2017

New church law on translations is 'good news' for the church

Updated Sept. 12, 3:28 p.m. CDT: The change to church law governing liturgical translations released by the Vatican over the weekend is "good news," liturgical experts say. But Catholics should not stop saying, "And with your Spirit," just yet.

A woman prays during a Mass for solidarity and peace Aug. 24 at St. James Cathedral Basilica in Brooklyn, New York, The liturgy was held in response to the violent and deadly white supremacist demonstrations in Charlottesville, Virginia.

Sep 08, 2017

Hispanics, African-Americans come together to fight racism

In a joint statement, black and Hispanic Catholic theologians "condemn the systemic violence, racism and legitimized hatred that diminish the integrity of the United States of America."

Sep 07, 2017

Bishops respond to Bannon's allegations about supporting immigrants

Updated with comments from Cardinal Dolan: Calling it "insulting," the U.S. bishops responded quickly to former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon's allegation that the Catholic Church supports immigration in order to have more Catholics.

Sep 06, 2017

Morning Briefing

NCR Today: Pope Francis makes his way to Colombia, and NCR is aboard the papal flight with him; Catholics support Dreamers; Finding hope in the letters of Elly Hillesum

Holy Cross Fr. Donald McNeill in 1980 (NCR photo/Patty Edmonds)

Aug 31, 2017

Fr. Don McNeill inspired students to care about social justice

Appreciation: "No one -- other than Hesburgh -- has had a bigger impact on the modern Notre Dame," says one alumna who is among the thousands who studied with the Holy Cross priest, who died Aug. 24.

Aug 30, 2017

Morning Briefing

Morning Briefing: Special collection for storm victims; Marching for justice; Extreme flooding in Nepal, India and Bangladesh; Sean Spicer meets Pope Francis

Aug 29, 2017

Racial justice activists want Catholic leaders to act

Since white supremacists marched in Charlottesville, Catholic leaders have spoken up, created an ad hoc committee, and led prayer services. But those long involved in anti-racism say the church needs to do real work.

Bishop George Murry of Youngstown, Ohio, speaks during a video news conference Aug. 23 at the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops headquarters in Washington. (CNS/Bob Roller)

Aug 23, 2017

US bishops announce Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism

"The times demand it. Our Gospel demands it," says Bishop George Murry, who will lead the new committee. Among its first goals: a national summit of religious leaders.

Aug 17, 2017

Christian ethicists: Racism, white supremacy are 'a Christian problem'

More than 400 Christian ethicists and theologians have signed "A Statement from Christian Ethicists Without Borders on White Supremacy and Racism," which rejects hateful ideology as "a sin against God."