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Francis, the comic strip: Brother Leo and Gabby look for the Christmas star. But there are other things in the night sky.

In Advent Scripture readings, we hear much about joy and peace. But so, too, do we hear about wrath and judgment; and this year, Rebecca Bratten Weiss writes, that feels …

Trump’s top-level nominees for his second administration include pastors, Catholic converts and one who owes his spiritual rebirth to a book by a Swiss psychiatrist.

In a Dec. 11 column for the archdiocesan newspaper, the Chicago cardinal wrote that “receiving the Eucharist is not a private action but rather a communal one, as the very …

Fiducia Supplicans arrived in reporters’ inboxes at 2:15 in the afternoon one year ago today, on Dec. 18, for “immediate” publication. In many respects, it defined the year ahead for Pope …

Listen: In this episode Sr. Joan Chittister describes how she came to understand the significance of other traditions. Her understanding of the world’s wisdom carries practical implications for each of us. 

Local and regionally based Catholic universities around the globe could help provide the expertise, innovation and creativity to climate challenges that can benefit developing countries. 

Massimo Faggioli’s book joins the esteemed canon of works that focus on questions about what a university should be, writes NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters. 

Franciscan Fr. Joseph Nangle, who spent nearly 50 years challenging war, poverty and injustice, died Dec. 14 in Washington.