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6 days ago | 
ncronline.org | Christopher White |Shannon Evans |John Grosso |Dan Stockman
Pope Leo XIV implored clergy in church authority to "make oneself small" in order to glorify Christ, echoing a theme of his predecessor Pope Francis in his first public Mass on May 9.
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6 days ago | 
ncronline.org | Christopher White |Shannon Evans |John Grosso |Dan Stockman
Pope Leo XIV implored clergy in church authority to "make oneself small" in order to glorify Christ, echoing a theme of his predecessor Pope Francis in his first public Mass on May 9.
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1 week ago | 
ncronline.org | Kat Armas |Shannon Evans |John Grosso
The new pope is a reader of the National Catholic Reporter. Pope Leo XIV, when he was Cardinal Robert Prevost, twice shared NCR articles on his personal X (formerly Twitter) account: Once in 2016, and again, recently, on Feb. 3, 2025. The latter was a commentary from columnist Kat Armas criticizing Vice President JD Vance's widely panned and incorrect interpretation of the Catholic teaching ordo amoris.
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3 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | John Grosso |Michael Sean Winters |Jason Berry
Pope Francis was not the first pope to use social media but he greatly expanded the church's social media footprint and built a foundation for the church's ongoing ministry in the "digital continent."When he was elected in 2013, Francis was celebrated as the first Latin American pope. It seems only fitting that such a groundbreaking pope would be the one to charge fearlessly into the digital continent as well.
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3 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | John Grosso |Olivia Bardo
After the Vatican announced April 21 that Pope Francis had died, it changed the pope's official X account, @Pontifex, to "Apostolica Sedes Vacans" — "The Apostolic See is vacant." The account's profile image is now the coat of arms the Vatican uses during the period of sede vacante, when there is no pope. (NCR Screenshot/X) Social media reaction poured in April 21 as people from every corner of the digital world took to online platforms to lament the loss of Pope Francis.
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3 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |John Grosso |Stephanie Yeagle
Jennifer Vasquez Sura, the wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia of Maryland, who was mistakenly deported to El Salvador, right, stands with supporters during a news conference April 4 at CASA's Multicultural Center in Hyattsville, Maryland. (AP photo/Jose Luis Magana) In the shadow of the cross before us, where our faith calls us to ponder the vulnerable Jesus and the Christ of the marginalized, our government has erected a modern Golgotha for Kilmar Abrego Garcia.
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3 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |John Grosso |Stephanie Yeagle
We should sit with the suffering and the abandonment of the cross, with the rejection of all that Jesus taught which that cross implies. We should sit with death, with such a death. "But we proclaim Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and foolishness to Gentiles" (1 Corinthians 1:23).
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3 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Stephanie Yeagle |John Grosso |Michael Sean Winters
Photos of Rita, Stephanie Yeagle's grandmother, are displayed at the memorial service. (Courtesy of Leah Sears) During the past few weeks, my pastor has been reviewing several theories of atonement in an attempt to answer the age-old question of why Jesus had to die. Did Jesus die for purely selfless reasons? Was it an act of moral penance or retribution? Was the crucifixion a transaction of our sins in exchange for the Son of God's death? What was God's message?
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3 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Piyas Biswas |John Grosso |Michael Sean Winters |Stephanie Yeagle
On Good Friday, April 18, a tradition came to life in Dinajpur, a northern district of Bangladesh. Hundreds of Catholic faithful gathered at Dinajpur Cathedral to take part in the annual "Way of the Cross," a solemn reenactment of Jesus Christ's final journey to Calvary. This sacred ceremony, observed for more than 25 years, is a key part of the Lenten season for the local community.
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4 weeks ago | 
ncronline.org | Michael Sean Winters |John Grosso |Jack Dura
More than 9,000 Catholic employers do not need to abide by federal regulations requiring accommodations for workers who seek abortions and fertility treatments, according to a ruling issued this week by a federal judge in North Dakota.
