COMMENTARY: In an age of cultural confusion and spiritual hunger, the Church’s ancient faith, sacraments and moral clarity ...

Christopher Hale is the head of the “Letters from Leo” website and one of the rising leaders of the “Catholic Left” in the United States.

As I look back, I am so glad I lived through the pre-Vatican II church at Holy Rosary Parish in Jersey City. This close-knit community shaped my faith and nurtured my priestly vocation. “It was like ...

Q. We want Catholic education for our children, but we are torn between our modest, older parish school and the more expensive academy that seems to have all the latest that technology and sports have ...

Last spring when NCR offered me a chance to contribute regularly, I decided early on to write six essays that would have some thematic unity for this election year. Together, those five essays all ...

Sixty years ago, the Catholic Church issued a revolutionary document called Nostra Aetate - Latin for "In Our Time." Adopted during the Second Vatican Council, it marked a dramatic shift in how the ...

The case of a former Catholic seminary school student who claims he was forced to drop out because of sexual harassment by his teachers, thus preventing his being ordained, is testing whether ...