During Holy Week, we offer you a chance to enhance your prayer and reflection over these holy days using Sunday commentaries, articles, art and graphics from our sister publication Celebration as well as from National Catholic Reporter and Global Sisters Report. Visit all the resources on the Celebration page.
NCR and its sister publications offer quite a few resources for the Easter season, too:
- Start your day inspired with daily Scripture reflections. Join NCR's sister publication, Celebration, for Daily Bread, a series of short reflections written by four authors who meet regularly to share the readings.
- Or reflect on Pencil Preaching by Pat Marrin. Every morning Pat Marrin breaks open the Word with a pencil sketch and a short meditation.
News over the weekend came from Rome and in many streets, parks and marches across the USA:
- Vatican youth meeting notes that some want changes to Catholic teachings
- NCR cover marches in real time: Live blog: March for Our Lives protests across the US for gun control
- Added a little commentary: March for Our Lives heralds God's presence on our streets
- And then offered this recap at the end of the day: Galvanized marchers take over Washington streets to demand gun law reform
A related (?) story in the news this morning: Gun maker Remington, America's oldest, files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection
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Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero was assassinated March 24, 1980, and on March 7, 2018, Pope Francis cleared the way for Romero to be canonized later this year. Since then, we've been running a series: Memories of Romero about and by people who knew and were influenced by this churchman. More stories are in the works, so check out that page periodically.
No Holy Week observance in war-torn Philippine city Cathedral was desecrated and burned by Islamic State-inspired gunmen.
The once "big tent" of the Democratic Party "now seems a pup tent," Cardinal Timothy Dolan wrote in an op-ed in The Wall Street Journal March 23. The party has abandoned so many issues Catholics cherish, he wrote.
We would have sold him space: Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s founder and CEO, issued a statement apologizing for “breach of trust” in the Cambridge Analytica scandal in full-page newspaper ads across major print publications on Sunday. (Video clip included.)
America has this article by Fr. Fred Daley of Syracuse, N.Y.: I came out as a gay, Catholic priest on the Feast of the Annunciation Daley has made a couple of appearances in the NCR pages.
Looking at the latest news out of Washington: Despite porn stars and Playboy models, white evangelicals aren’t rejecting Trump. This is why.
