Year: 2025

Say “marriage preparation” and no small number of Catholics would likely say “a hoop the priest made us jump through” to let us marry in the Church; some would say, …

Pope Leo XIV received the leaders of Chile’s episcopal conference and discussed “the Church’s journey in communion and synodality, the current situation of the country on the eve of the …

Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomew of Constantinople, who holds a primacy of honor among the Orthodox churches, traveled to Bucharest to join Patriarch Daniel of Romania in consecrating the icons and mosaics …

The Church in Italy concluded its four-year synodal process with the approval of a 72-page final document, Lievito di pace e di speranza [Leaven of Peace and Hope]. The document …

Pope Leo XIV received King Philippe and Queen Mathilde of Belgium, a year after the king welcomed Pope Francis to Belgium. At the time, the king’s remarks to Pope Francis …

Millions of Americans face an imminent health care crisis. Yet hope is faith in action. And the time for Catholics to act is now.

 Prelate also views preventing access to detainees as a serious pastoral and constitutional concern as well as a matter of religious freedom.  

In an age of numbness and forgetting, remembering our shared grief may be the truest form of resistance, writes Tom Fox, NCR editor/publisher emeritus.

Too many people who hold political office today throw around words like “faith” and “Christianity” and “values,” yet support dehumanizing practices that not only fail to love one’s neighbor but …

Following the Jubilee of Synodal teams and Participatory Bodies, the 16th Ordinary Council of the General Secretariat of the Synod held a two-day meeting. The Ordinary Council is responsible for …