The vital work of care for creation must be done together. NCR editors say that by working together across denominations, people of faith take the first step toward the integral ecology about which Pope Francis speaks.
With last month's announcement of a slew of plans for faith organizations' divestment from fossil fuels, the contrast that zero U.S. dioceses have divested is stark. We say: All U.S. dioceses should divest.
We say: The United States needs to return to a politics of hope, rather than fear-mongering, so the country can enact humane and just policies for migrants and asylum-seekers.
Editorial: We are better than having to send our children — our children! — off to school each day, knowing that any person can walk in with an assault weapon and annihilate them.
Over the past 10 years, Pope Francis has changed the church in substantial ways. Jesus knocked. Francis opened the door. Now it's time to step through.
We're all for open discussion, even open debate. But churlish, childish name-calling reflects poorly on the U.S. church, the NCR editors say in this editorial.
The deportation of imprisoned critics of the Nicaraguan government and the unjust conviction and sentencing of Bishop Rolando Álvarez highlight the need for the U.S. government and church to speak out about religious freedom abuses in that country, says our editorial board.
We say: Dioceses need to apply the values of dialogue and transparency to the process of creating LGBTQ policies, and to discerning whether such policies are necessary. Instead, they are being born in secrecy.
