Bill Mitchell

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.

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.

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…

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.

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

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.

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.

Book review: Martin Baron’s Collision of Power and Adam Nagourney’s The Times examine the personalities and powers driving agenda-setting news.

"In My Time of Dying" applies a journalist's rigor and independence to his own time of wavering between being alive and being dead.