NCR Staff

Your thoughts: Some big news out of the Vatican on new laws mandating reporting of abuse or its cover-up, and Pope Francis handing over a report from the commission on women deacons.

Pope's quotes: "The journalist has a role of great importance, and at the same time a great responsibility. In a certain sense you write the 'first draft of history.' Times change, and the way of being a journalist changes too."

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our occasional series on seminary formation that focuses on who is teaching seminarians and how they are formed.

Your thoughts: Two recent NCR editorials shared a common thread of division within the Catholic Church. "Bannon's emerging anti-Francis movement threatens church unity" and "One pope is quite enough" sparked a fury of conversation on social media and in NCR's letter to the editor inbox. 

Pope's quotes: "Merciful love is the only path to follow. How much we all need to be a little more merciful! Do not gossip, do not judge, do not pick at others with envy and jealousy."

Pope's quotes: "The Church cannot be other than the sacrament of God's mercy in the world, in every time and towards all humanity."

Your thoughts: More reader responses to Pope Benedict XVI's letter that blamed the continuing Catholic clergy abuse crisis on the sexual revolution, developments in theology following the Second Vatican Council, and modern society's aversion to speaking about God.

Pope's quotes: "May a new season finally begin, in which the globalised world can become a family of peoples."

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 March 2019. 

Pope's quotes: "We have heard the voice of the poor, of children and the younger generations, of women and so many brothers and sisters who are suffering due to war. With them let us say with conviction: No to war!"

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to Pope Benedict XVI's recent letter, in which he blamed the continuing Catholic clergy abuse crisis on the sexual revolution and the Second Vatican Council.

Pope's quotes: "God's name is peace. The one who calls upon God's name to justify terrorism, violence and war does not follow God's path."

Your thoughts: Two recent columns by Franciscan Fr. Daniel P. Horan received mixed reactions from NCR readers.

Your thoughts: NCR readers shared their thoughts on our editorial following the Archdiocese of Kansas City, Kansas' decision to deny admission of a kindergarten student with same-sex parents.

Pope's quotes: "Prayer and concrete acts of cooperation help us to break free from the logic of conflict and to reject the rebellious attitudes of those who know only how to protest and be angry."

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 February 2019. 

Pope's quotes: "We cannot remain indifferent. Today the world has a profound thirst for peace. In many countries, people are suffering due to wars which, though often forgotten, are always the cause of suffering and poverty."

Pope's quotes: "Some people behave in relation to corruption as they would with drugs: they think they can take it and leave it as they please. They start with something minor: a kickback here, a bribe there."

Your thoughts: The third installment of NCR reader responses to Melinda Henneberger's perspective on why she is leaving the church, and the counterpoint from Fr. David Knight asking Henneberger to "hang in there." 

Pope's quotes: "The fraudster is a man who has no faith. The Gospel tells us about him in the parable of the dishonest manager. How did this manager arrive at the point of defrauding and stealing from his master? From one day to the next? No. Bit by bit."