NCR Staff

Pope's quotes: "To be firm in the faith means the capacity to receive faith from others, to conserve that faith and to pass it on."

Your thoughts: Within the past month, NCR published three editorials calling for Catholics to pay attention to the humanitarian crisis happening at our southern border. 

Pope's quotes: "Children, who have no problem in understanding God, have much to teach us: they tell us that He accomplishes great things in those who put up no resistance to Him, who are simple and sincere, without duplicity."

From New York City to the southern border, thousands of pro-immigrant demonstrators in hundreds of cities gathered July 12 to protest Trump Administration immigration policies.

Pope's quotes: "The consolation we need, amid the turmoil we experience in life, is precisely the presence of God in our hearts. God's presence in us is the source of true consolation, which dwells in us, liberates us from evil, brings peace and increases our joy."

Your thoughts: NCR recently published stories outlining differing decisions by two Catholic schools in the Indianapolis Archdiocese when dealing with gay teachers.

Pope's quotes: "The Lord has given this love to us, so that we can love each other as He has loved us."

Your thoughts: Readers continue the conversation about an article by James Carroll for The Atlantic calling for the priesthood to be abolished. 

Pope's quotes: "We should wholeheartedly give priority to human beings in their actual circumstances and pursue every attempt to prevent differences from giving rise to violence that can cause ruinous calamity for people and for society."

Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Here is a sampling of letters received in the month of May 2019. 

Pope's quotes: "But you might say to me, 'But tell me, Father, those who have done the worst things in life, do they have the chance of being forgiven?' Yes! No one is excluded from God's forgiveness."

Your thoughts: The U.S. bishops' conference held their annual spring assembly June 11-14 where they took further steps into accountability and transparency in dealing with clergy sexual abuse.

NCR received the following email from Tom Halden, director of the office of communications for the Archdiocese of St. Paul and Minneapolis, regarding the story posted June 12, an interview with Catholic entrepreneur Tim Busch.

Pope's quotes: "We are all called, good and bad. The Church is not only for the good, or for those who seem good or believe themselves good. The Church is for everyone, and even preferably for the wicked, because the Church is mercy."

Your thoughts: Recently, James Carroll wrote an article for The Atlantic calling for the priesthood to be abolished. NCR published three different responses to Carroll's call.

Pope's quotes: "Whoever proclaims the hope of Jesus carries joy and sees a great distance; such persons have the horizon open before them; there is no wall closing them in; they see a great distance because they know how to see beyond evil and beyond their problems."

Your thoughts: NCR readers are welcome to join the conversation and send us a letter to the editor. Below is a sampling of letters received in the month of April 2019.

Pope's quotes: "Respecting human dignity is important in any profession … because even behind the simple account of an event there are sentiments, emotions, and ultimately, people's lives."

Your thoughts: Letters to the editor in reaction to NCR's recent editorial on abortion, in which we wrote about the extreme attitudes of state legislatures in New York and Alabama and how there is a reasonable compromise.

Pope's quotes: "Loving the truth means not only affirming it, but rather living it, bearing witness to it in your work. … The issue is not that of being or not being a believer. The issue here is being or not being honest with yourself and with others."