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Published on National Catholic Reporter (https://www.ncronline.org) Dec 31, 2019 Vulnerability as strength: Keenan's key to dismantling clericalism by Tom Roberts Jesuit Fr. James Keenan really wants to turn the whole deal on its head. The highly regarded theologian,...

Published on National Catholic Reporter (https://www.ncronline.org) Oct 28, 2019 Bishops vote for married priests, call developed world to repent for harming Amazon by Thomas Reese by Religion News Service Vatican City — The synod of bishops meeting in Rome voted on...

Kenyan man's search for his father runs into church cover-up by Nicole Winfield by Rodney Muhumuza by The Associated Press Samburu, Kenya — When Sabina Losirkale went into labor, her sister Scolastica recalls, priests and religious sisters filled the delivery ward...

With Newman, the church gains its 'saint for modern times' Blessed John Henry Newman widely seen as an architect of the modern church by Jonathan Luxmoore Oxford, England — When the convert-cardinal, Blessed John Henry Newman, is canonized by Pope Francis on Oct. 13,...

The Revolutionary Politics of the First Christma BY N.T. WRIGHT  DECEMBER 23, 2019 N.T. Wright is the Professor of New Testament and Early Christianity at the University of St Andrews, a Senior Research Fellow at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford University and the author of over...

The decolonial and intercultural hopes of the pan-Amazon synod by Daniel P. Horan, NCR, October 2019 The Instrumentum Laboris (or "working document") for the upcoming Pan-Amazon Synod of Bishops in Rome is bold, challenging and surprising in many ways, and not only...

In US tour, Marie Collins exposes clerical culture behind abuse cover-up by Tom Roberts, NCR, September 2019 Washington — The Catholic Church has reached a crossroads. Its leaders can either change, become open and accountable, or maintain the status quo: an...

Francis warns of ideology 'infiltrating' some quarters of US Catholic Church 'A schism is always snobbish ideology detached from doctrine,' pope says by Joshua J. McElwee ABOARD THE PAPAL FLIGHT FROM MADAGASCAR — Pope Francis warned Sept. 10 that ideology is...

EVOLUTION IS OUR MOST FUNDAMENTAL REALITY by Ilia Delio, NCR, July 2019 We are living in the midst of several major crises, including the environment and the institutional church. Does academic theology play a role here as well? Well, yes. As co-creators, we can begin...

'Let's not wait for the theologians,' says Pope Francis about sharing the Eucharist by Thomas Reese by Religion News Service, 6 June 2019 On the plane returning to Rome from Romania, Pope Francis made an extraordinary statement on the role of theology in ecumenical...