Month: July 2026

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to stories about just war theory, religious liberty and Magnifica Humanitas.

On America’s 250th birthday, we can celebrate and embrace our first president’s commitment to religious freedom — and rejoice that it’s shared by the first American pope. 

Pope Leo XIV will be honored as a recipient of the Liberty Medal by the National Constitution Center on July 3. The last three popes have all made serious attempts …

by Paolo Affatato Mandalay – “The word ‘hope’ always belongs to Christians. We do not place our hope in this world, nor in any person on earth. Our hope comes …

Thomas said to him, “Master, we do not know where you are going; how can we know the way?” Jesus said to him, “I am the way and the truth and …

The Feast of St. Thomas, the Apostle, who at first did not believe, has become for the Church one of the first witnesses to her faith. She is fond of …

Nicaraguan police detained Bishop Emeritus Abelardo Mata again on June 30, just one day after his initial detention and subsequent release on June 29. The 80-year-old prelate is reportedly now …

Fr. Jan Dohnalik, chancellor of the Archdiocese of Kraków, Poland, said the move reflects Pope Leo XIV’s episcopal motto, “In Illo uno unum”  — “In the One, we are one.” 

Two bishops of the Society of St. Pius X (SSPX) — Spaniard Alfonso de Galarreta and Swiss Bernard Fellay — incurred automatic excommunication by committing the canonical offense of schism …