National Catholic Reporter
EWTN, once ‘the work of the devil,’ now gets blessing from pope
By Thomas Reese — May 16, 2023
(RNS)— Critics of EWTN, even the pope, need to be nuanced.
When a celebrity becomes a bishop: Will Barron set aside Word on Fire for his new diocese?
By Steven P. Millies — June 3, 2022
(RNS) — Bishop Robert Barron could pose a historic first contradiction between two mandates for bishops.
Creating a Catholic Church she can belong to
By Benjamin Spratt and Joshua Stanton — June 3, 2022
(RNS) — Jamie Manson, president of Catholics for Choice, is often asked why she doesn’t leave a church whose direction she often questions. But she long ago found that Catholicism offered the very theology that promised her, and so many others, belonging.
San Diego Bishop Robert McElroy ‘stunned’ at being named cardinal by Pope Francis
By Alejandra Molina — May 31, 2022
(RNS) — News of McElroy’s appointment is being celebrated by the faithful who advocate for LGBTQ people, immigrants and labor rights as well as among those who stand against the politicization of the Eucharist.
RIP Catholic News Service — gone too soon and when we needed you most
By Thomas Reese — May 25, 2022
(RNS) — The US Catholic bishops are killing off Catholic News Service, which is the AP of Catholic news, providing copy to Catholic publications and websites across the country.
In Chicago, the pope’s allies gathered to discuss his vision — and his detractors
By Jack Jenkins — March 31, 2022
(RNS) — ‘People named names,’ said Michael Sean Winters, an organizer of the event.
Major Catholic newspaper divests from fossil fuels
By Renée Roden — July 2, 2021
(RNS) — National Catholic Reporter appears to be in the vanguard of publishing companies making a public commitment to divest from fossil fuels.
The success of Pope Francis’ new sex abuse reporting rules depends on enforcement
By Thomas Reese — May 9, 2019
(RNS) — Only if the new norms are enforced well can the church’s credibility be rebuilt.
How ‘Spotlight’ missed the story (COMMENTARY)
By William F. Baker — February 23, 2016
The movie leaves out the crucial fact that it was a vigilant Catholic publication, NCR, that first told the truth about an issue that would transform the Catholic Church and the lives of its members around the world.
Sister Joan Chittister, the dissident nun, shares her secret life
By Cathy Lynn Grossman — October 26, 2015
She was an abused and terrified child who grew up to challenge her church, a new biography reveals. Yet this maverick sister and writer is a traditionalist -- in her own way.
Richard McBrien, outspoken liberal theologian and Notre Dame scholar, dies at 78
By David Gibson — January 26, 2015
(RNS) In his media punditry and in a weekly column that ran in some diocesan newspapers, the Rev. Richard McBrien argued for the ordination of women, optional celibacy, and birth control, among other things.
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