Katie Collins Scott

While the international community shifts its focus to Israel's mounting attacks on Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, a Catholic Relief Services representative reflects on one year of war in Gaza.

A naval base less than 30 miles from Seattle has one of the world's largest concentrations of deployed nuclear weapons. Five billboards in the area highlight Pope Francis' words on the immorality of such weapons. 

Conservative Catholics who support the demise of the Chevron deference cite agency overreach and religious freedom. But some Catholics say the SCOTUS ruling undermines the common good and Catholic social teaching.
 

As the Palestinian death toll in Gaza surpassed 40,000, Catholics joined a delegation that spent Aug. 13-20 in Israel and the Palestinian territories. They helped fleeing farmers, and spoke with organizers aiding families of hostages.

Black voters, and especially Black women, long have been the Democrats' most steadfast voting bloc and could be crucial to determining the outcome of this year's presidential election.

An investigation commissioned by the St. Labre board of directors found it is likely "many other" Native students died, yet their deaths were not documented in the archival material reviewed during the investigation.

The Portland Archdiocese's Ministerio Hispano went from an office with two staff members and a website to an inaccessible website and one staffer with the title "director" but who has full-time work elsewhere.

Catholic agency and church leaders told NCR the answer to the complexities of homelessness is not fines or jail time, an approach many cities could adopt following a major ruling on homelessness by the Supreme Court.

Survivors and tribal leaders spoke with NCR after the U.S. bishops issued a document acknowledging, in a circumscribed manner, the Catholic Church's culpability in the intergenerational trauma of Indigenous people. 

Some Catholics, including a psychologist, theologians and a mother of a transgender child, told NCR the website contains inaccuracies, does not reflect LGBTQ people's experiences, and overall fumbles in its mission. 

Holy Cross Fr. Dan Groody gave a June 12 talk at the University of Portland on a "theology of migration," attempting to reframe often contentious narratives through the liturgy and people's connection with God and one another. 

After the news that the pope reportedly used a slur to refer to gay men, Fr. Bryan Massingale and Fr. Greg Greiten described their thoughts and emotions about it — and about the gifts and pain of being openly gay priests.

 Amid debates about transgender rights, two conservative Catholic groups have played a consequential but often undisclosed role. NCR looks at the Person and Identity Project and The Cardinal Newman Society.

NCR asked three Catholic theologians how they view the Vatican's new doctrinal document, which condemns gender-affirming surgery for transgender people. 

More than a dozen U.S. bishops gathered at St. Louis University to listen to trans people and their families. Participants told NCR the aim of the meeting was to help bishops understand trans people's experience.

The average apartment in San Jose runs $2,400 a month, But Claire McManmon, a Catholic school teacher, pays $1,000 a month for communal housing in a renovated convent across the street from where she works. 

Outreach, a news, opinion and resource site for LGBTQ Catholics that is affiliated with the Jesuit-run America magazine, has named former Boston Globe and America reporter Michael O'Loughlin as its first executive director.

Mary Jo Tully, the first laywoman chancellor of a U.S. diocese, also contributed to the creation of the Catechism of the Catholic Church. Colleagues remembered her candor, talents, and fierce love of the church.

Archbishop Alexander Sample of Portland, Oregon, has barred priests from celebrating Mass for what was possibly the only Catholic-Lutheran ecumenical community of its kind in the United States.