Our team of copy editors reads and posts most of what you see on the websites for National Catholic Reporter and Global Sisters Report (the NCR project focusing on women religious). Today, we're kicking off the Copy Desk Daily — highlighting the latest in news and opinion that's crossed our desks on its way to you.
Nuns and Nones: Unlikely partners tackle the big questions
Global Sisters Report starts a three-part series on "Nuns and Nones," a movement that is bringing together experienced Catholic sisters and nonreligious millennials who share a passion for social justice, community and contemplation.
How to cope with a Notre Dame loss? Practice Ignatian indifference
Did your team lose the Super Bowl — or not even make it there in the first place? Mike Jordan Laskey knows how that feels. Since a painful college football defeat in late December, he's given some thought to how his sports fandom may or may not fit with his Catholic faith.
Julian Castro has executive experience that a president needs
Columnist Michael Sean Winters has been taking a look at the Democratic candidates who've so far thrown their hats into the ring of the 2020 presidential race. Today, he focuses on the prospects of a former mayor of San Antonio.
Facing the racial divide in St. Louis
Racial justice and the effects of racism in her home city of St. Louis are an ongoing concern in Sr. Judith Best's GSR columns. There's still so much she has to learn, she writes, about the oppressive systems in her city and her state.
Coming up: NCR's Vatican correspondent, Joshua McElwee, is in the United Arab Emirates for Pope Francis' visit there. Keep an eye on NCRonline.org this week for reporting from that trip, the first for a pope to the Arabian peninsula.
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