Jennifer Smith Richards is a reporter for ProPublica. She began her journalism career writing obituaries in West Virginia, then covering small-town southe ...

Megan O’Matz is a reporter at ProPublica, where she covers issues out of Wisconsin.

My contemplative and dialogical self is challenged in this difficult time. The U.S. election is important, and equally important is how I and we will respond to each other in the coming days, weeks, ...

Vice President Kamala Harris' closing message is a case study in political malpractice, writes columnist Michael Sean Winters ...

My mother, God rest her soul, would be mortified by the title of this essay. But this bit of history is not what you're ...

At an Oct. 17 event in Pennsylvania, Chittister praised the former Wyoming Republican representative for her "moral courage" ...

Two plaintiffs in the lawsuit against the Los Angeles Archdiocese told NCR they are hopeful the settlement will spur changes to protect children. But neither is done speaking out, despite how ...

Pope Francis preaches about synodality, but canon lawyers are showing us how to make it more than a pious wish.

Alicia A. Caldwell is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist. She has previously worked as a reporter for The Philadelphia ...

Among delegates attending the latest United Nations biodiversity summit, called COP16, is a coalition of faith groups who say ...

"This is just one synod. There will be others. We do not have to do everything, just take the next step,"  Cardinal-designate ...

Catholic priest Marcelo Pérez, an activist for Indigenous peoples and farm laborers in southern Mexico, was killed on Sunday.