By Daniel Payne Dec 29, 2025 / 06:00 am A rise in executions in the United States in 2025 occurred alongside “shifting public opinion” against the death penalty, offering anti-death-penalty …
“Fast away the old year passes,” as the Christmas carol Deck the Halls warns us—and so it is to be. The year 2025 is fast approaching its end. Semiquincentennial of …
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We live in an age that regards the identification of sin as the worst of all sins. As Regis Nicoll points out, “Today instead of 10 commandments, there is just …
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St. Thomas Becket. (Credit: cnbrb/wikimedia CC BY SA 4.0) We Catholics tend to have unrealistic expectations about our priests. We want every one of them to deliver brilliant, engaging homilies …
JD Vance, Charlie Kirk, Pope Leo XIV and Pope Francis were among the figures that NCR’s columnists and contributors opined about in 2025.
Jesuit priests and seminarians plus some laity found the remains of two women after they scoured an 80-mile stretch of the Chihuahuan Desert in a search for migrants, living or …
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