Ten years ago in McLean, Virginia, native Californian Sabatino Carnazzo, now Father Hezekias and a priest of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church, took a major leap of faith: he founded the Institute of ...

There is one agent of unity in our Catholic faith that the secular culture lacks: the bishop of Rome, says NCR columnist ...

The clergy sex-abuse scandal has irrevocably changed Catholic culture. Ordinary Catholics are comfortable today doing and saying things that would have been unthinkable to them just a few short years ...

To counter decades of Catholics becoming absorbed into secular American culture, noted author and journalist Russell Shaw is proposing a new Catholic "subculture" committed to evangelization. "We're ...

My experience as a Black woman, mothering two girls while currently going through my sixth pregnancy (not every one planned but each one wanted), informs my desire for a space where I am allowed to ...

“I know a great little place where we can get some good, authentic Catholic cuisine.” How would you react if your date made that statement? If you’re being honest, wouldn’t you silently stare at that ...

The mantra invoked when episodes of police brutality or corruption come to light, as they do with gut-wrenching regularity these days, is that it’s just a matter of “a few bad apples.” It’s an all-too ...