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Peter Feuerherd reports on the Catholic-sponsored New York Encounter. According to Feuerherd, the event's theme, "Something to Start From," was apt.
Read: New York 'Encounter' contemplates Western culture losing its way
Michael Sean Winters reviews Jesuit Fr. John O'Malley's Vatican I: The Council and the Making of the Ultramontane Church, calling it "a much needed and very informative history."
Read: 'Vatican I' examines pre-conciliar movements that threatened the church
In NCR's latest editorial, we ask: "The church is being made small in this current, major humiliation. ... Having been humiliated, how do we now live in authentic humility?" Perhaps we can find a balm in one of the Catholic community's most well-known symbols.
Read: Pietà offers meaning amid the betrayal of the abuse crisis
Mariam Williams is marketing her online courses but feels gross about it. "I have to use exclamation points. My writing almost never includes exclamation points." Williams navigates a system of rituals in her latest column.
Read: Identities can be lost in our rigid rituals
Readers sounded off about Melinda Henneberger's perspective "Why I left the church, and what I'm hearing about it" and Fr. David Knight's counterargument to her. NCR's sampling of reader responses continues.
Read: Your thoughts on leaving the church, part two
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