NCR Voices

Acclaimed journalist Philip Shenon's new book Jesus Wept: Seven Popes and the Battle for the Soul of the Catholic Church seemed like a must-read tome when a review copy arrived this winter. Unfortunately, the work is plagued by errors of fact, analysis and understanding.

As NCR commits to cover the response of the church to the onslaught of cruelty coming from the Trump administration, this 1970 article — recounting the story of Catholic prelates helping secure table grape contracts — rings a bell.

To ignore all the good works accomplished by USAID over the years is morally and intellectually dishonest. Democrats should nonetheless learn to avoid entangling foreign aid with culture war issues.

The budgetary problems at the bishops' conference are real. No one expected the new administration's policy changes to be so draconian or so immediate. Still, the bishops didn't put up much of a fight, did they?

Before getting to the miracles, the process first requires a determination that the putative saint displayed "heroic virtue." Does the public record confirm such heroic virtue?

Voters rejected Elon Musk and Brad Schimel as surely as they elected Susan Crawford. But the Democrats should avoid overplaying their hand, writes Michael Sean Winters.

Complex cultural shifts led to a more secular U.S. But Calvinism's acute irony is that once the essence of faith was worn down, the habits of faith lingered and Calvinism became reduced to hyperindividualistic ethics.

In 1963, Jesuit Fr. John Courtney Murray gave a speech to journalists that became National Catholic Reporter's manifesto when the newspaper debuted a year later. It remains our guiding force today.