If the political landscape in 2025 was grim, prospects for 2026 do not appear much better. And the dominant figure in the new ...

"For any authority to be able to express these characteristics, it is necessary to embody the virtues of humility, honesty ...

Pope Leo's midnight Mass sermon was beautiful and it was similar to what we Catholics have been hearing at Christmastime from ...

Seventeen Catholic priests, sisters, seminarians and lay workers were murdered in 2025, according to Fides, the Vatican's ...

When the Second Vatican Council opened in 1962, its proceedings were shrouded in secrecy. Then, unexpectedly, a mysterious ...

Bishop Stanislav Szyrokoradiuk of Odesa-Simferopol said that people "who've taken power" in the U.S. aren't "interested in ...

JD Vance, Charlie Kirk, Pope Leo XIV and Pope Francis were among the figures that NCR's columnists and contributors opined ...

On this episode of "The Nonviolent Jesus Podcast," John Dear put together a special one-hour, year-end episode of highlights ...

"Playing havoc with Leo's appointment to replace Dolan looks like a disruptive move by those who realize that the U.S. church ...

The path to conversion, the door to God's mercy and the call to live in Christian hope all continue beyond the Jubilee Year, ...

Bishop Ronald A. Hicks of Joliet, Ill., has been appointed archbishop of New York, succeeding Cardinal Timothy Dolan. Hicks ...

Arguably, the biggest story for the U.S. church this year was not the selection of Pope Leo XIV so much as the selection of ...