by John Freund, CM | Sep 17, 2013 | Pope
Pope Francis is certainly having an impact with his simplicity and humility. People across a wide spectrum of believers, unbelievers and sceptics are paying attention. With The Francis Chronicles, reports on the ministry of the world’s parish priest, the NCR has...
by John Freund, CM | Sep 4, 2013 | Justice and Peace
Intervention in Syria raises many questions. Thomas Reese of the NCR attempts to lay out some of what moral theologians  and church leaders are saying in light of “just war” theory. Not easy reading, but the issue is not an easy one. Just cause? Last...
by John Freund, CM | Jul 27, 2013 | Uncategorized
Praying the news to avert despair Heidi Schlumpf  writes in the NCR… “My students often tell me they avoid the news because it’s too depressing. Death, destruction, discord — who needs all that negativity?” But checking out — in...
by John Freund, CM | Jun 16, 2013 | Vincentian Family
The NCR collected the following appraisals of Roger Playwin who is stepping down after ten years. CEO praised for guidance in troubled times Jim Dumont, a member of the St. Vincent de Paul Society’s National Council, hired Roger Playwin in 1998 as the executive...
by John Freund, CM | May 8, 2013 | Church
Cardinal João Braz de Aviz, head of the Vatican’s Congregation for Religious, has dismissed claims from the Vatican that remarks he made to NCR about a controversial 2012 criticism of U.S. Catholic sisters were misinterpreted, saying he backs NCR’s report...
