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Citing financial reasons, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops at its spring meeting in Louisville, Kentucky, may be looking to revamp or significantly scale back the Catholic Campaign for Human [...]

An independent national Catholic magazine edited an online essay by a popular author after receiving a threat of legal action from Word on Fire, the Catholic media organization founded by [...]

Some priests in the Diocese of Knoxville have retired early or left active ministry. Others are considering leaving the priesthood. Groups of lay Catholics in the East Tennessee area say [...]

Nearly seven years after the U.S. Catholic bishops formed an Ad Hoc Committee Against Racism amid rising white nationalist activity, the United States continues to wade through a troubled chapter [...]

Facing a shrinking and aging group of priests in active ministry, the Paulist Fathers on March 13 announced that the missionary society will close three national offices and leave two [...]

Catholic leaders in Oklahoma are proceeding with plans to operate the nation's first taxpayer-funded religious public charter school, which critics and some legal scholars say violates the U.S. Constitution's prohibition [...]

If it were up to some bishops, National Catholic Reporter would have been silenced long ago. That is a strong claim, but consider a few instances over the years that [...]

A Catholic bishop in Michigan has apologized for disparaging President Joseph Biden as a 'stupid' Catholic during a recent talk after a celebration of daily Mass. Claiming that his comments [...]

If Pope Francis continues to serve as bishop of Rome for another two years, he may have a notable opportunity to refashion the U.S. Catholic hierarchy. Dozens of bishops, several [...]

Frustrated by poor communication and a workplace culture they say has been warped by secrecy and hypermasculinity, at least a half-dozen Word on Fire employees in recent months have resigned [...]

BALTIMORE--The Vatican's ambassador to the U.S. urged the nation's Catholic bishops on Nov. 14 to step out of their 'comfort zones' and embrace the open-ended discussions at Pope Francis' Synod [...]

Editor's note: This edition of NCR was printed on Nov. 3, five days before the Nov. 8 midterm elections. This story was first published online in late October. It is [...]

Three-quarters of U.S. Catholics view Pope Francis favorably, but that figure is down 8 percentage points from 2021 and reflects growing polarization between Catholics who identify as Republicans and Democrats, [...]

Donning special protective glasses, millions of Americans on April 8 gazed into the heavens for an encounter with totality. The cosmic drama that played out in the skies above moved [...]

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton's legal efforts to shut down a Catholic migrant shelter network in El Paso, Texas, is the latest example of the Lone Star State trying to [...]

Speaking on the CBS Sunday morning show 'Face the Nation,' Cardinal Wilton Gregory of Washington, D.C., likened President Joe Biden to a 'cafeteria Catholic' who is 'sincere' in his faith [...]

STAFF REPORTER'S NOTE Barely three months have passed since our calendars flipped to 2024, but already I have been privileged to write several important news stories for NCR. In early [...]

Citing declining enrollment and structural deficits, the new administration at one of New York City's longest-running Catholic colleges has moved this year to eliminate several academic programs and slash faculty [...]

Bishop William Byrne of Springfield, Mass., cited Dr. Anthony Fauci in his reflections on eucharistic piety during the 19th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast on Feb. 8. Mentioning a November [...]

A former senior legal adviser and attorney for former President Donald Trump who served as a special counsel for a conservative Catholic-led law firm is among the 19 individuals charged [...]

One in five Americans who receives a periodical from a Catholic diocese in the mail today receives a publication from FAITH Catholic, boasts the Michigan-based nonprofit, which promotes itself as [...]

To organize a National Eucharistic Congress in 2024, the Catholic bishops in the United States have partnered with an event planner who was accused of charging exorbitant rates during the [...]

Some U.S. Catholic priests have peddled conspiracy theories about microchips in vaccines and power-hungry global cabals exploiting the coronavirus pandemic to institute a one-world government. Others have spread blatant untruths [...]

The Nov. 7 passage of an abortion rights amendment for the Ohio state constitution was the latest in several significant electoral defeats for the Catholic Church since the U.S. Supreme [...]

The 41-page synthesis report for the Synod of Bishops on synodality disappointed several progressive Catholics and others who advocate for the Catholic Church to rethink its approach to issues such [...]

The Vatican announced Nov. 11 that Pope Francis had effectively fired Texas Bishop Joseph Strickland, a firebrand prelate who in recent years questioned the safety of the coronavirus vaccines, called [...]

Stan 'JR' Zerkowski said he did not expect to see a message from a Vatican email address in his inbox early in the morning on Oct. 13. Opening the email, [...]

An organization that provided hefty sums of money to nonprofits that spread misinformation about the 2020 presidential election and organized the Jan. 6, 2021, attack at the U.S. Capitol building [...]

BALTIMORE * After more than a year of intense debate on a controversial document originally intended to target pro-choice Catholic politicians like President Joe Biden, the U.S. bishops on Nov. [...]

With about three weeks to go before Catholic prelates around the world are due to open a first-of-its-kind grassroots consultation period as part of an expanded vision for the Vatican's [...]

Two Catholic institutions cosponsored a conference where journalists from conservative news outlets and commentators from right-wing think tanks gathered at the Museum of the Bible in Washington, D.C., to weigh [...]

In a provocative essay published Feb. 28 at First Things magazine, Bishop Thomas Paprocki of Springfield, Illinois, appears to accuse San Diego Cardinal Robert McElroy of heresy, citing the cardinal's [...]

Avid Catholic fans of G.K. Chesterton may recognize actor Kevin O'Brien from his days portraying friends and intellectual opponents of the prolific early 20th-century British writer on the Eternal Word [...]

The dubia cardinals. The 'Pachamama' affair. The Vigano dossier. Regular criticisms of his pontificate on the Eternal Word Television Network Pope Francis' 10 years on the chair of St. Peter [...]

Today, as a middle-aged journalist who covers news in the Catholic Church, I often work from a comfortable home office. But 25 years ago, I was a 21-year-old U.S. Army [...]

In October 2022, viewers of the Eternal Word Television Network (EWTN) were told by German Cardinal Gerhard Miiller, formerly one of the Vatican's highest-ranking officials, that Pope Francis' plans for [...]

The second-in-command of an historic community of U.S. Catholic priests that operates popular ministries across the country has resigned after he confirmed a woman's report in early August that he [...]

Although Democrats across the country widely performed better than expected in the Nov. 8 midterm elections, one Republican candidate also defied expectations: Ohio's now Senator-elect J.D. Vance. The Hillbilly Elegy [...]

BALTIMORE * The U.S. Catholic bishops' conference on Nov. 15 elected Archbishop Timothy Broglio, a former Vatican diplomat who has supported religious exemptions for coronavirus vaccines and has blamed gay [...]

Catholic academics, theologians, clergy sex abuse survivors, and advocates for the inclusion of women and LGBTQ individuals in the U.S. Catholic Church praised the forthrightness and transparency with which the [...]

Kristine Christlieb said 'red lights were going off' in her head the day Church Militant disconnected the telephones at work after a staff meeting in November 2022. 'It was pretty [...]

The controversial Catholic bishop of Tyler, Texas, announced May 12 on Twitter that he believes Pope Francis is 'undermining the Deposit of Faith.' Bishop Joseph Strickland, a vocal critic of [...]

Worried about a backlash from voters after the Supreme Court's overturning of Roe v. Wade, Republican politicians this midterm season are moderating their opposition to abortion. In some cases, they [...]

Inmates, college students, climate activists, LGBTQ people, clergy sex abuse survivors, health care professionals, church reform advocates and older Catholics are among those who have participated in their own listening [...]

More than a half million U.S. Catholics have participated in synodal listening sessions over the past year as part of Pope Francis' two-year process of grassroots listening ahead of the [...]

On the evening of July 30, former U.S. Attorney General William Barr addressed a friendly audience that over three days at the Napa Institute's annual summer conference had heard more [...]

Kelly Easter won her legal battle to become a foster parent to refugee children. But Easter still feels like she's 'in limbo.' 'I don't know what to make of it,' [...]

Responding to recent comments by military Archbishop Timothy Broglio that Walter Reed National Military Medical Center is refusing to provide adequate pastoral care to Catholic service members and veterans, the [...]

Robert Heineman used to tell his friends and colleagues from the progressive Catholic reform group Call to Action that the best way to bond with a donor was to sleep [...]