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Your thoughts: Each month, NCR gathers up a sampling of letters to the editor from our readers in response to articles and columns that appear on NCRonline. This week, we will focus on letters received in May 2020.

Your thoughts: NCR recently published a column from Fr. Peter Daly, in which he announced that after 33 years of membership, he is quitting the Knights of Columbus.

Your thoughts: On June 6, Archbishop Carlo Mario Viganò, the former papal nuncio to the U.S., published a letter to President Donald Trump in which he praised the president and used veiled language about "the children of light and the children of darkness."

Your thoughts: The powerful essay written by Fr. Bryan Massingale on racism and white privilege is full of wisdom and weighty statements such as this: "The only reason for racism's persistence is that white people continue to benefit from it."

Your thoughts: With the U.S. bishops' conference outlining guidelines for parishes to begin opening their doors for Mass again, there are those who believe it is too soon to open up and those who can't wait to get inside their church again.

Watch the webinar, then catch up on coverage of how the U.S. Catholic Church is responding to climate change.

The National Catholic Reporter has named Christopher White as its new national correspondent. He succeeds Heidi Schlumpf, who was named executive editor of the publication in March.

Your thoughts: Each month, NCR gathers up a sampling of letters to the editor from our readers in response to articles and columns that appear on NCRonline. This week, we will focus on letters received in April 2020.

Watch: Executive editor Heidi Schlumpf and columnist Michael Sean Winters discuss the 2020 presidential election on Facebook Live.

Your thoughts: Our readers are still talking about the involvement of Catholic clergy in political causes in regards to that phone call President Donald Trump held with several Catholic bishops, and other leaders. 

Your thoughts: The involvement of Catholic clergy in political causes continues to be the topic of conversation on NCR's site in regards to that now perhaps famous phone call President Donald Trump held with several Catholic bishops, and other leaders. As promised, here are responses to our editorial. 

Your thoughts: In the past two weeks, the involvement of Catholic clergy in political causes has been a hot topic at NCR. It stems from a phone call President Donald Trump held with several Catholic bishops, and other leaders, supposedly about Catholic education.

Your thoughts: Each month, NCR gathers up a sampling of letters to the editor received to our inbox relating to our articles and columns. This week, we will focus on letters received in March 2020.

Your thoughts: On April 8, Pope Francis announced he had created a new commission to study the ordaining of women as deacons in the Catholic Church. This is the second commission on the topic under Francis, however several members of this new commission seem to be opposed to women deacons. 

Your thoughts: In a recent editorial, we wrote that "Catholics who bought the single-issue strategy find themselves stuck in what once was a fun house now turned house of horrors."

Your thoughts: Weeks into the coronavirus pandemic and with no real end in sight, NCR is committed to bringing our readers comprehensive coverage of the crisis.

Watch: NCR national correspondent Heidi Schlumpf interviews composer Dan Schutte about his series The Easter Triduum, a digital liturgical celebration of the Triduum for this exceptional year.

Watch: NCR correspondents Heidi Schlumpf and Joshua J. McElwee explain how the coronavirus pandemic has changed their lives, their reporting and the Catholic Church.

Your thoughts: February was forever ago, right? Below are a sampling of letters written by NCR readers in the month of February 2020.

Your thoughts: Just a month ago, in what now seems like a different time, NCR published a commentary from Gabe Moran calling to revisit Andrew Greeley's idea of a "Priest Corps."