“In the journey of life, we could identify hope as the signpost that marks our itinerary,” Pope Francis said during a meeting with seminarians from Córdoba, Spain, Jan. 17.

The rabbi accused Pope Francis of fueling anti-Israeli and anti-Jewish sentiments by focusing on the suffering of Palestinians in Gaza and not acknowledging the multiple threats to Israel’s existence.

VATICAN CITY (CNS) — While many people around the world seek a blessing for their animals around the Oct. 4 feast of St. Francis of Assisi, in Italy the traditional …

Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to articles about plastic production, Bishop John Stowe’s blessing of women acolytes and Cardinal Robert W. McElroy’s appointment as Archbishop of Washington. 

The thing NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters most admired about President Joe Biden’s Catholicism these past four years was not his embrace of Catholic social ethics. It was his observance …

View from the Vatican: Hope is less autobiography than it is an aggregation of existing stories, interviews, speeches and history that are already known about the now-88-year-old pontiff. 

While scandals can shake us, the vast majority of our priests and parishioners strive to live the compassion of Jesus, writes Fr. Dave Mercer. Though this rarely makes the news, …