Bill Mitchell

Tracy Kidder’s latest book is an investigation of homelessness titled Rough Sleepers. A strength of the book is the time the author invested in getting to know people whose daily lives on the streets are almost unimaginable.

When I wrote my first story for NCR as a college freshman in 1967, I had no idea I’d end up as its publisher and CEO a half century later. NCR is on a positive trajectory. Now is the time to begin the search for its next leader.

NCR Connections: In eliminating so much of what CNS produces, the U.S. bishops are cutting off access to crucial news and information about the church at precisely the time Pope Francis is calling for synodal listening.

The GPS predicted we’d cover the 374 miles between Boston and Lewisburg, Pennsylvania, in six hours. It took us 10. Those four extra hours — plus another four on the return trip — tell a couple of stories. One recounts the stops and starts of long day trips without a drop of g…

Catholics of a certain age and outlook, like many of NCR’s readers, will find in James Carroll’s latest book, The Truth at the Heart of the Lie: How the Catholic Church Lost Its Soul — A Memoir of F...

Book review: James Carroll appears intent on creating a new category of former Catholics. He seems not so much a fallen away Catholic as a partial walk away — a Catholic who doesn’t just drift away quietly instead raises a ruckus.

Book review: Suzanne and Brayton Shanley, as “co-authors of a spiritual journal,” recount their unconventional choices in founding and living in the Agape Community in Loving Life on the Margins.

Franciscan Sisters give NCR $1.5 million to help endow EarthBeat and “wake up the world;” Barbara Fraser named NCR climate editor

A gathering of NCR members recalls some words to live by for journalists: Our readers know more than we do.

You’ve been meaning to read Laudato Si’ but haven’t yet? Here’s your chance.

Not only were Earth Day activities unlike any over the past half century. So was the coverage. 

How is it that a 17-year-old young woman has been able to galvanize millions of climate activists when so many of her elders have fallen short?

As convener of two Vatican gatherings of oil moguls, Holy Cross Fr. John Jenkins is well-positioned to assess what it will take to move them to address the crisis their companies have helped create.

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To prevent climate catastrophe, the former Irish president recommended tactics like lawsuits, protests, family interventions, shareholder challenges and disinvestment in fossil fuels.

For more than 15 years, Kathy Shaw played a remarkable behind-the-scenes role as the driving force of the Abuse Tracker blog. We have her to thank for getting the abuse story out.