James V. Grimaldi

2 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Camillo Barone |James V. Grimaldi

National Catholic Reporter's Vatican correspondent Christopher White will be joining Georgetown University's Initiative on Catholic Social Thought and Public Life in July 2025 as associate director for strategic engagement and a senior fellow. White, an award-winning journalist with extensive experience covering the U.S. and global Catholic Church, has spent the past four years reporting from the Vatican for NCR.

2 weeks ago | ncronline.org | James V. Grimaldi

Former Cardinal Theodore E. McCarrick arrives at Dedham District Court in Dedham, Mass., Sept. 3, 2021, after being charged with molesting a 16-year-old boy during a 1974 wedding reception. The charges were dismissed in 2023 due to McCarrick's cognitive decline. McCarrick,  who was laicized in 2019 after public allegations of serial sexual misconduct, has died at age 94.

3 weeks ago | ncronline.org | James V. Grimaldi

It is the speech that launched this newspaper. John Courtney Murray, a Jesuit priest and eminent theologian whose national prominence in the last century landed him on the cover of Time magazine, gave a speech in Rome in 1963 that became National Catholic Reporter's manifesto. As recounted in our history, Beacon of Justice, Community, and Hope by Lawrence B. Guillot, Murray's speech to journalists stirred our founders to create NCR.

1 month ago | ncronline.org | James V. Grimaldi |Anita Snow

Georgetown University officials have not been given a reason for the detention of a postdoctoral researcher and instructor in the Jesuit-run university’s School of Foreign Service. (Courtesy of Georgetown University)  Washington — March 20, 2025 Masked agents arrested a Georgetown University postdoctoral fellow and instructor as part of the Trump administration's campaign against student activists accused of opposing U.S. foreign policy, according to media reports.

1 month ago | ncronline.org | John Knebels |Pat Marrin |James V. Grimaldi |Chris Herlinger

Long before Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor raised her famous peacocks as an adult in rural Georgia, she kept canaries and chickens at 207 E. Charlton St., her childhood home in Savannah. She made the chickens' outfits — complete with underwear — with one donning a "white piqué coat with a lace collar and two buttons," she would later recall.