Tom Roberts

Listen: Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister has a reputation as one who dares to ask big, bold questions. Explore them with her in this podcast conversation with her friend and biographer, former NCR editor Tom Roberts.

Maybe Busch is as exhausted as the rest of us with the tensions and divisions in the U.S. church. But whatever the cost of the fancy dinners, it is a pittance compared to the money he has invested in divisive politics.

For Jewish Israeli academic Neve Gordon, “winning” is an impossible end to the invasion of Gaza, and the Israel-Hamas war is but the latest and grimmest evidence of a doomed strategy.

“Provocative pop-ups like Catholics for Catholics are ecclesiastical equivalents of a financial scam,” writes Tom Roberts. “Don’t give away the password to your spiritual account.”

The inauguration of anti-corruption reformer Bernardo Arévalo as president of Guatemala comes after decades of struggle to elevate the country's marginalized, especially women and the Indigenous population. 

Archbishop Alexander Sample has barred Mass from a Catholic-Lutheran ecumenical venture that has been underway and allowed for nearly 40 years. Amid Catholic questions about authority, Sample’s ban is distressingly archaic.

For Christians, the search for our moral bearings amid the horrific violence of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict may lie not so much in a conclusive statement of right and wrong. It may, instead, lie in encounter.

For Spirit Catholic Community in Minneapolis, holding true to tradition doesn't mean mere imitation. Are such independent communities simply outside the fold? Or could they teach the Roman Catholic Church a thing or two?

Spiritus Christi Church offers all the sacraments to all categories of people

Former Catholics are everywhere. This diaspora, in differing degrees detached from institutional Roman Catholicism, often takes shape in communities that still claim the name Catholic. Part 1 of a 5-part series.