NCR readers respond to stories about Pope Leo XIV and synodality, new funeral restrictions in the Diocese of Springfield, ...

Pope Leo XIV returned to Assisi on Aug. 6 for the second time in his pontificate, addressing more than 2,000 young people ...

"The Roman Curia for centuries has been all male, all white, all Italian and all clerical," writes NCR's Michael Sean Winters ...

After receiving a formal dispensation to leave the Franciscan order and priestly ministry, Daniel P. Horan reflects on his ...

St. Catherine of Siena Church in Weston, Massachusetts. A former Episcopal church built in 1917, the Society of St. Pius X purchased the building in 2023 and is renovating the sanctuary. (NCR ...

Google the question and you'll get a master class in apologetics — and maybe a scolding. But going to Mass on vacation is a ...

A group of altar boys, frustrated by the indifference of the adults in their Catholic parish, decide to wire the confessional ...

St. Augustine Church just celebrated Louis Armstrong's birth. The historic church endures amid parish closures and mergers ...

On this week's episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear hosts Jack Cohen-Joppa, publisher of The Nuclear Resister ...

Joseph Capizzi, former dean of the School of Theology and Religious Studies at The Catholic University of America, was ...

"For centuries," writes Vanessa R. Corcoran, "attacks on female religious imagery have continued (outpacing vandalism against ...

A Washington state bishop is calling for prayer as wildfires have torched entire neighborhoods, leading to thousands of ...