NCR Staff

Your thoughts: Readers respond to our recent editorial that expresses frustration with the U.S. bishops sowing doubt about vaccines and relief that promote the common good.

Your thoughts: In a commentary for NCR, Rebecca Bratten Weiss wrote about Bishop Robert Barron's recent piece that used the term "beige Catholicism" to refer to the faith of liberal or progressive Catholics.

Your thoughts: It is a controversial tradition, but six U.S. presidents have spoken at the University of Notre Dame's commencement exercises, and a total of nine presidents have received honorary degrees. But will our nation's second Catholic president be invited to speak?

Your thoughts: NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters publishes three columns a week, and we get many letters to the editor responding to his opinions.

Your thoughts: The U.S. bishops' conference disbanded its controversial working group formed to deal with President Joe Biden, showing that the leadership might have recognized their stance was ill-considered.

Your thoughts: NCR posted two recent opinion pieces about the rise of liberal Catholicism since the inauguration of President Joe Biden. Or, have we been here all along?

Your thoughts: In NCR's latest editorial, we called for the Vatican to investigate the U.S. bishops' conference after their recent divisive rhetoric.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent opinion piece by Franciscan Sr. Fran Ferder and Fr. John Heagle that says many Catholics who voted for former President Donald Trump because of his "pro-life" stance were conned by the con artist himself.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to our Jan. 7 editorial, in which we write that among those with some culpability for the failed Jan. 6 insurrection are more than a few leaders in the Catholic Church.

Your thoughts: Letters from readers responding to NCR's choice of President-elect Joe Biden as the 2020 Catholic Newsmaker of the Year. 

Your thoughts: With the insurrection on the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6, revisit letters to the editor responding to an article about why some Catholics support President Donald Trump.

Your thoughts: In a recent column, NCR political columnist Michael Sean Winters discusses an article by Archbishop Charles Chaput talking about whether President-elect Joe Biden should receive Communion. 

Your thoughts: Public opinion over statues of St. Junípero Serra — and the church's legacy toward Indigenous people of the West Coast — is divided, but Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone has been holding exorcisms at the sites where Serra's statues were toppled.

Your thoughts: Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister says her mother told her that something can be learned in everything. And Chittister learned a lot of lessons from someone she didn't expect — President Donald Trump.

Your thoughts: The president of the U.S. bishops' conference surprised some fellow bishops at the end of the virtual assembly with the announcement of the formation of a working group to examine President-elect Joe Biden's stance on abortion.

Your thoughts: With the release of the Vatican's report on former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, one figure was mentioned over and over again, St. John Paul II. 

Your thoughts: We are continuing to dive into the in-depth Vatican report on disgraced former cardinal Theodore McCarrick, which was finally released Nov. 10.

Your thoughts: Thomas P. Doyle reviews a new book that examines clergy sexual abuse, in which the author's research is "nothing short of remarkable, stunning and most importantly, authentic."

#CatholicsVote2020: NCR reporters and analysts will be tracking developments at the intersection of faith and politics throughout the day Nov. 3 — and until a winner can accurately be determined.

Your thoughts: You may have seen the recent news that Pope Francis said in a new documentary, "Francesco," that he supports civil union laws for same-sex couples, which, as NCR reported, is not really that recent of news.