“Although the Catholic Church has had a pacifist approach to international relations since the Second World War, it still recognizes that war can be waged lawfully if certain conditions are …

“Christian hope is nothing like optimism or the unfounded conviction that ‘everything will work out fine,’ ” writes Daniel P. Horan.

NCR’s Michael Sean Winters would be surprised if the Democrats pick up the Texas Senate seat in November.

Jesus said to the Pharisees:“There was a rich man who dressed in purple garments and fine linenand dined sumptuously each day.And lying at his door was a poor man named …

The thought expressed in today’s first reading in Jeremias is one of the basic themes of the great prophets; it is to be found also in the Psalms (particularly Ps …