Fighting a new culture war battle over the placement of the Ten Commandments on the walls of schools is a fool's errand, says NCR columnist Michael Sean Winters.
Letters to the editor: NCR readers respond to articles about gay priests, abortion's influence on Catholic voters, and the Cardinal Newman Society's influence on U.S. Catholic transgender policy.
The fate of Louisiana's law mandating the Ten Commandments in public classrooms could rely on the Supreme Court's yearslong "trajectory of weakening the establishment clause," David Golemboski tells Fr. Dan Horan.
It's time for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops to issue a supplementary note to their quadrennial election guide, addressing the existential threat facing our system of government.
The decision to slash the Office of Justice, Peace and Human Development at the U.S. bishops' conference raises profound questions of governance and mission, along with issues of trust and integrity.
Contrasting the white Christian nationalist agenda of Project 2025 with the U.S. bishops' own "Faithful Citizenship" document demonstrates the moral danger in voting for a Republican president.
The model put forth by members of the Academy of Catholic Hispanic Theologians of the United States should lead the church to become an ever larger tent — a church that welcomes, promotes and integrates everyone.
Jesus told us in John 3 the Spirit is like the wind whose origins and future direction is yet unknown to us. Why then confine ourselves to a limited "traditional" faith and structure?