Peter Feuerherd

Peter Feuerherd, former NCR news editor, is a veteran of the Catholic and religious press, having written for Commonweal, St. Anthony Messenger, and diocesan newspapers in Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Albany, Long Island and New York City. He is the winner of numerous Catholic Press Association and religious press awards and is the author of "Holy Land USA: A Catholic Ride Through America's Evangelical Landscape" (Crossroad). Feuerherd writes from Queens, New York, where he is also an adjunct professor of journalism at St. John's University. He is a regular on the basketball courts of the borough. 

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Parish roundup: Welcoming refugees; praying for earthquake victims

Pittsburgh plan would consolidate 188 parishes into 48 groups

Catholic Charities can bridge US factions, says NYC forum

Churches upfront about legal risks when providing immigrants sanctuary

Parish roundup: No firearms at church; visit the imprisoned; evangelicals support DACA, too

Irish call to suspend deacon ordinations gets cool reception

Petitioners to Rockville Centre bishop: Ordain married men

Parish roundup: Posting the Ten Commandments; sanctuary push; save lobsters

Parish roundup: A model for future church; Grand Canyon chapel

Church reform groups support call for Year of the Laity

Healing conflicts amid closures and consolidations, a case study

Parish roundup: honoring Romero, Rother; selling NYC air rights

Opening doors to Latinos invigorates North Carolina parish

The results are in: NCR readers on hand-holding during the Our Father

Parish roundup: Hartford consolidations; Chicago anniversary; battling hate

New Ways Ministry list collects gay-friendly parishes

St. Matthew keeps Jesus at center of its megachurch-style campus

Parish roundup: Green revolution; sanctuary by Methodists; Muskogee today

St. John XXIII Parish aspires to be 'a beacon of light'

Should we hold hands or not during the Our Father?

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