For three days, LGBTQ Catholics, clergy, religious, family members and others walked through New York City as pilgrims, tracing a history marked by suffering, ministry, exclusion and perseverance.

As the artificial intelligence boom drives a rapid expansion of data centers across the United States, server facilities are becoming an increasingly visible issue in the 2026 midterm elections.

AI is increasingly becoming more than a search engine for people. It can be a source of guidance on relationships, morality, grief, spirituality and the meaning of life. That shift is at the center of...

Two priests remember Sept. 11, 2001, from radically different vantage points: one as a pastor responding to the catastrophe; the other as a seminarian who would learn that his uncle had died at the Wo...

Martha Burnett Pettee's brother died in the Flight 93 attack, and her son survived the Minneapolis shooting. "What's in my prayers every single day is, 'your will be done,' " she said. "I can't predic...

Many men enter seminaries and religious communities well after the age traditionally associated with priestly formation. Some spent years building careers, dating, or living independently before pursu...

Over 600 people attended vigils outside a federal immigration office near Cincinnati after Haitian residents of Springfield received letters directing them to appear at the ICE field office nearly two...

National Catholic Reporter's Camillo Barone shares how the story of Briley Piper has occupied a large part of both his reporting and personal life.

Pope Leo XIV returned to Assisi on Aug. 6 for the second time in his pontificate, addressing more than 2,000 young people gathered in the birthplace of St. Francis of Assisi, calling on them to become...

The Mount Cristo Rey Protection Act would prevent the federal government from constructing border security infrastructure around the prominent Catholic pilgrimage site overlooking the U.S.-Mexico bord...

"I don't know that I'm redeemed," Briley Piper said. "I think I'm a work in progress, and I'm working on it every day."

NCR begins a three-part series about Briley Piper, the only prisoner on South Dakota's death row, and the Catholic conversion he experienced after being sentenced to death for his role in a 2000 murde...

"As every American knows, the path to building a society that would embody those high ideals of liberty and justice for all was not always easy and, in many respects, is still a work in progress," the...

The ceremony ahead of the 250th anniversary of American independence will celebrate the importance of religious liberty, freedom of conscience and human dignity.

Catholics gathered in New York for the 2026 Annual Pride Mass at the Stonewall National Monument, steps away from the Stonewall Inn, where the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement traces its origins to the J...

As the U.S. approaches its 250th anniversary, Catholic leaders in Ohio and Florida have issued separate appeals calling for continued protection for Haitian migrants living legally in the country unde...

Nearly 46 years after Dorothy Day's death, her granddaughter Martha Hennessy still finds herself interpreting Day's legacy — not only for the church and the wider world, but for herself.

Michael Joncas wrote "On Eagle's Wings" during a moment of private grief. Five decades later, the hymn has become one of the most recognizable religious songs in the English-speaking world.

As the FIFA World Cup opens on across the U.S., Mexico and Canada, a group of Dominican friars, sisters and lay leaders is calling on Catholics to pay attention to the people who may be left behind by...

"I think it's a positive step, but it's a very limited step, especially when dealing with something that's so complicated and complex in a single paragraph," said Fr. Bryan Massingale.

In an NCR interview, Archbishop Ronald Hicks spoke about his similarities with Pope Leo XIV; internal polarization in the archdiocese; the proposed $800 million abuse settlement; and how he starts wit...

The Dignity Act, a bipartisan immigration proposal in the U.S. House of Representatives, is drawing significant backing from Catholic lawmakers, who make up more than half of its current supporters.

Other major Catholic universities offer different financial aid plans to make college affordable for lower-income students.

Amira Musallam leads a movement to shield civilians from violence without weapons. But the environment surrounding that work has grown more volatile as the regional war widens and the situation in the...

For Lebanon's Catholic communities — many of them concentrated in towns near the Israeli border — the renewed violence has revived fears that echo earlier conflicts in the country's long history of wa...

Archbishop Paolo Martinelli, based in Abu Dhabi, finds himself guiding a church that must navigate pastoral life amid geopolitical shock waves. The church itself has had to adapt, he told NCR in a rec...

Behind gestures toward accountability lies a quieter crisis that New York Archbishop Hicks just inherited: uncertainty about long-term solvency, uneven communication with clergy, and increasing ideolo...

NCR interviews Fr. René Constanza, whose reelection as president of the Paulist Fathers comes at a moment of both continuity and challenge for one of the most distinctly American Catholic orders.

Roots of Peace has a straightforward proposition: remove lethal land mines and replace them with agriculture. Clear contaminated land, then plant high-value crops that can support families and local e...

At his installation Mass, Archbishop Ronald Hicks described a church that feeds the hungry, upholds human dignity, protects children, promotes healing for survivors, cares for creation and builds unit...

Archbishop-designate Ronald Hicks sketched a pastoral tone rooted in simplicity, shaped by evangelization, attentive to immigrants and the poor, and focused on building a missionary church that reache...

In Nuuk, Greenland's capital, a Catholic community of about 300 people — many of them Filipino immigrants — is following international debate over the future of their home with concern, detachment and...

"These have been tense days, lived in a tense calm and with mixed feelings," said Archbishop Jesús González de Zárate, the Venezuelan bishops' conference president, in an interview with NCR days after...

Bishop Ronald A. Hicks of Joliet succeeds Cardinal Timothy Dolan, who turned 75 in February.

Part 2 of NCR's three-part series examines the experience of the Annunciation community after the Aug. 27 shooting at the school's church in Minneapolis, and how parents began to navigate trauma and s...

In the darkest minutes and in the long days after a shooter killed two children and injured , prayer, fellowship and the simple presence of one another has comforted families.

The Fordham Pope Francis Global Poverty Report, compiled by researchers at Fordham University's Graduate Program in International Political Economy and Development, paints a mixed but increasingly pol...

Twenty cardinal electors and influential cardinal non-electors spoke to NCR after Pope Leo XIV's election. In Part 2 of this series, the conclave opens and the cardinals make their crucial choice.

Prelate also views preventing access to detainees as a serious pastoral and constitutional concern as well as a matter of religious freedom.

In 2025, rapid changes to federal immigration policy have unsettled long-established processes and forced organizations like the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, known as CLINIC, to adapt quickly.

A group of Catholics who marched to a Chicago immigration processing center and were prevented from giving Communion to detainees said they are not about to back down.

The UK-based anti-landmines group was honored with the 2025 Conrad N. Hilton Humanitarian Prize, the world's largest annual humanitarian award for nonprofits.

As the popemobile rolled through St. Peter's Square Sept. 24, the choir from New York's Church of St. Paul the Apostle performed an original hymn for Pope Leo XIV. Its words were drawn from the pope's...

Sen. Dick Durbin will not accept a Catholic award recognizing his immigration work, Chicago Cardinal Blase Cupich said Sept. 30. The announcement follows objections from some bishops over Durbin's sup...

Pedro Bismarck Chau was 16 when he came to the United States as an undocumented immigrant in 1984. He was ordained as auxiliary bishop of the Archdiocese of Newark, N.J.,  on Sept. 8.

The pontiff said he hoped to visit the Sicilian island of Lampedusa, where his predecessor first traveled as pontiff, "soon, in person."

The absence of Jesuit Fr. Paolo Dall'Oglio seen as the tragic continuation of a life defined by radical devotion to peace and interfaith dialogue.

The world seems more fractured than at any point in recent memory since World War II. Yet amid this turmoil, the Vatican is determined to make its voice heard — not simply in prayer, but in active, en...

A seasoned journalist known for his multilingual fluency and multimedia storytelling, Justin McLellan steps into the role of Vatican correspondent at a pivotal time for both the Catholic Church and NC...

The world seems more fractured than at any point in recent memory since World War II. Yet amid this turmoil, the Vatican is determined to make its voice heard — not simply in prayer, but in active, en...