Today, Oct. 28, 2024, is National Catholic Reporter's 60th birthday. To celebrate six decades as the independent voice for and about Catholics, we are launching a new feature republishing articles from our past.
At Washington's Red Mass, the themes of civility, humility and fortitude come "at a time that has become remarkably, historically and particularly uncivil at the high court," writes NCR's James V. Grimaldi.
In NCR's poll of Catholic voters in swing states, what was most striking to columnist Michael Sean Winters was what it revealed about issues that entail cultural and ecclesial ideas as well as political ones.
Three U.S. cardinals who met with Pope Francis aren't saying what was on the agenda. A likely topic, writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters, is the need to fill the many vacancies in U.S. metropolitan archdioceses.
The panel on "The Role and Authority of the Bishop in a Synodal Church" focused on moving away from monarchical episcopal authority. It was not Management 101. It was mission-oriented, grace-filled Ecclesiology 101.
The protests, from the very start, have been directed at Israel. Michael Sean Winters asks: When obvious moral facts are ignored, can these anti-Israel protests be explained as anything but evidence of antisemitism?
It's time for another installment of Michael Sean Winters' long-running feature, Catholics Behaving Badly. This time, the regrettable examples come from the Denver Archdiocese and Raymond Arroyo's show on EWTN.