NCR Staff

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the news of Pope Francis naming 16 new cardinal electors, including Bishop Robert McElroy of San Diego, California.

Your thoughts: More NCR readers respond to the controversy over San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone barring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Communion unless she publicly repudiates her position on legal abortion.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the controversy over San Francisco Archbishop Salvatore Cordileone barring House Speaker Nancy Pelosi from Communion unless she publicly repudiates her position on legal abortion.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent column by Jesuit Fr. Thomas Reese in which he says that there are numerous signs that the Catholic Church is failing in Western countries.

Your thoughts: NCR readers comment on a recent opinion piece by an anti-abortion and disability advocate who says criminalizing abortions will not stop them because having access to abortion isn't what causes them.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent column suggesting that it might not be such a bad thing to be spiritual but not religious.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to Bishop Robert McManus' request for a Catholic school in Worcester, Massachusetts, to remove its Black Lives Matter and gay pride flags.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent analysis that asked Catholic moral theologians, Catholic health care ethicists and Catholic women who view themselves as pro-life what they think about the more extreme anti-abortion restrictions.

Katie Collins Scott has joined the National Catholic Reporter as its new staff reporter. Scott most recently served as special projects reporter for the Catholic Sentinel, the Portland archdiocesan newspaper.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to a recent column from Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister on the dwindling numbers or religious sisters.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to St. Joseph Sr. Christine Schenk's call to update the texts and translations of the Vatican II lectionary.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to Patrick O'Neill being sanctioned by the Knights of Columbus for his federal conviction and sentencing after participating in the Kings Bay Plowshares action.

Your thoughts: NCR readers respond to the importance of a recent Pew study that highlights the religious beliefs, practices and experiences of Black Catholics in the United States.

Your thoughts: NCR readers share their thoughts on a recent commentary that suggests the process in which the Catholic Church converts new members should be updated and reconsidered.

Your thoughts: NCR readers weigh in on the U.S. Catholic bishops' plan for a multi-year $28 million national Eucharistic revival to focus on "real presence."

Your thoughts: More NCR readers respond to the news of baptisms performed by a Phoenix pastor being declared invalid because the priest said "We baptize" instead of "I baptize."

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