National Catholic Reporter Archives

Faith and the power of persistence: Catholic citizen wages decades-long fight to end police brutality – Nation – Mary Powers of Citizens Alert</…

Directory for the Life and Ministry of Priests. – book reviews
William C. Graham
The secular press was quick to report tidbits from…

Churches send Iraq medical aid – USA – Brief Article
Dennis Coday
WASHINGTON — Church World Service, the relief arm of the Nationa…

The three faces of Dick Cheney
Raymond A. Schroth
In British playwright David Hare’s “Stuff Happens,” his drama at the New York Pub…

Homage to the trickster
Rich Heffern
Truthteller creates and destroys
Saturday mornings when I was a kid, I never missed “An…

He daily served a disguised God – Michael Kirwan
COLMAN McCARTHY
Michael Kirwan had a double identity. Among the secure and spruced…

Religious in India urge change in patriarchal mindset
India’s major religious superiors ended their triennial meeting Feb. 1 with a call …

Bookshelf – religious books
William C. Graham
More books for winter nights!
Prayers for Jubilee (Liturgy Training Publicatio…

Denmark’s flag, now burned by Muslims, has Christian past
Stacy Meichtry
In the heat of battle, a flag made of lambskin descended f…

The Christmas Nitty-Gritties
Michael Burton
Poor folk in our mountains and
“Illegals” in our cities —
Will these peo…