From La Croix, July 2019 The upcoming Synod of Bishops for the Amazon will highlight the need to defend indigenous people and their environment, according to Peruvian Cardinal Pedro Barreto.…
From LaCroix, July 2019 The 50th anniversary of the Symposium of the Bishops’ Conferences of Africa and Madagascar (Secam) on the theme “The Family of God Church in Africa” is…
The Second Vatican Council (1962-65) was called to work out how to handle this new world order. It changed the preferred image of the Catholic Church from that of a…
This series represents a continuation of NCR’s look at the effect of money, largely making its way through the expanding and uniquely American non-profit system, on the Catholic narrative both…
In his classic book, The Prophetic Imagination, theologian Walter Brueggemann gives voice to the role of the prophet in honoring the ministry of imagination. Brueggemann writes: The task of prophetic…
From Richard Rohr, July 9 2019 Prophets, by their very nature, cannot be at the center of any social structure. Rather, they are “on the edge of the inside.” They…
Book Highlights Location: 74. It was the clerks who would follow me around stores and the jobs that were hiring until I walked in the door and then they were…
By Sean Michael Winters, NCRonline, July 10, 2019 Yesterday, I called attention to an article by Robert Mickens about Pope Francis’ recent address at a theological symposium in Naples. Eleven days ago,…
