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The Catholic Press Association, at its annual meeting in Baltimore in late May, proclaimed National Catholic Reporter the best national Catholic newspaper in the country. Among a plethora of other [...]

We are forever hearing from people in letters or other modes that don't fit any neat slot in the paper. Sometimes some of them elbow their way into this page. [...]

Church and state became odd bedfellows and changed history, including the year 2000 We stand, to paraphrase Francis Thompson, amid the dust of the mounded years -- our history. Millions [...]

I try not to hype my own stories -- really, I do! -- but wish to draw readers' attention to this week's cover story, for the following reasons. Maybe the [...]

The refusal of God, despite all the prophets of doom, to die Last summer, as we prepared to launch NCR's art search for Jesus 2000, I speculated one pessimistic morning [...]

There are nine fat envelopes of clippings in the NCR clip file about Cardinal John O'Connor, as well as extensive electronic archives, hundreds of items long and short, complete with [...]

It is a pleasure to announce the first exhibition of Jesus 2000 art works, in New York. New York became the mecca of the art world back in the 1950s. […]

S.: A NOVEL OF THE BALKANS By Slavenka Drakulic Viking, 201 pages, $22.95 The birth of a baby, messy and painful on the one hand, brings life on the other [...]

Everywhere one looks, new perspectives on the Vietnam conflict appear on this significant anniversary. Few if any can bring to the subject the authenticity of our own Tom Fox. As [...]

We all know Jesus Christ well, whether we believe in him or not. Only God could have predicted the variety of forms this child and man, messiah and murder victim, [...]

Things went downhill quickly after that Sunday with the throng of people and the palms waving and donkey-ride. The Thursday dinner obviously made a big impression on some who were [...]

It's a matter of opinion whether the world needs more words about Kosovo, the Balkans, ethnic-cleansing Serbs or Albanian refugees. This same dilemma rises to meet us in many directions. [...]

These pages regularly herald the good priests and their increasingly heroic efforts. The priest who has given his life to the poor in Appalachia; the priest fighting for prison reform; […]

In this country haunted by crime, our prisons are signs of contradiction dotting the national landscape. In our fear, some of us want to lock up, preferably for life, all […]

A common complaint in Catholic circles is about the quality of preaching at Sunday Mass. Some parishes get lucky, though, such as St. Francis Xavier in Kansas City, Mo., where [...]

Newspapers are odd entities. One can never be sure what mysterious ink flows through their pages that causes people to love this paper and denounce that one; or why some [...]

There exists a whole battery of cliches to the effect that the victors write the history, that whoever writes the history in turn rules the roost, and so on. The [...]

Ripples continue to spread from our Dec. 31, 1999/Jan. 7 editorial about last century's peacemakers. There are many candidates who for various reasons are not as well-known as they deserve. [...]

We're six billion and counting. Clinging to a used planet, we have survived another thousand years of life with each other. Yet we're unsure of ourselves and asking new questions [...]

Ours is a violent country. We look aghast at faraway killing fields and console ourselves it would never happen here. But those countries are at war. The chilling thing is [...]

One secret of a good piece of writing is that it starts a discussion. In his Dec. 31-Jan. 7 editorial, Managing Editor Tom Roberts sang the praises of the century's [...]

Linda Benton, who is part Native American, was a campus minister at Syracuse University when she first met Immaculate Heart of Mary Fr. Jude Fischler. Later, while she was in [...]

This week Opinion Editor John Allen continues his revealing coverage of the tension within the Catholic church over the seemingly innocuous matter of translations (story, page 6). There's more to [...]

I have a confession to make. I am fascinated, nay awestruck, by outer space. The magnitude of it, the sheer potential for mystery and surprise, the awesome interactions of quarks, [...]

Jesus 2000 is the whole point of it The images came from the ends of the earth, six continents, in bulky bundles or neat envelopes, harbingers of an old-new artistic [...]

Calendars and clocks may be artificial ways to measure just where we are, yet our hearts tell us this isn't an average Christmas. We have used our own ordinary building [...]

The School of the Americas has become a scab on the American psyche. NCR has for years reported on the efforts of Fr. Roy Bourgeois and an ever-growing band of [...]

The deadline has come and gone. We received scores of messages, from the amusing to the provocative to the inspired, which will constitute our Message in a Bottle supplement in [...]

It lifts hearts everywhere to see, on television or in print, uplifting stories of goodness, beauty and truth. It's a truism that bad news gets more publicity than good. Good [...]

Do you hear that sound? (I'm doing my best to be dramatic here.) It's us hurtling toward that fuzzy, inaccurate, overhyped, under-understood but nevertheless resounding moment when we pass over [...]

Apocalypses have been such a constant thread running through our past that their history is in a way the history of the world. In the years and then the months [...]

A glance back over the years shows NCR covers leaping from high hopes to low farce, from broken dreams to glorious achievement in the world at large and the Catholic [...]

When NCR launched its search for a contemporary Jesus, two dimensions of the project were uppermost in our minds. The first was a journalistic question: Considering the resounding lack of [...]

While 2000 will be big for Christian pilgrimage, the practice is ancient and everywhere Don't be surprised if we eventually learn that Adam and Eve, as soon as they were [...]

At first I looked forward with apprehension and even distaste to that moment when time would do a somersault and the old millennium meld into the new. There would be [...]

NCR's search for a contemporary Jesus is moving toward its crucial deadline, Oct. 18. The number of entries already in, the number of queries from artists far and wide, the [...]

A few months from now, there will be an issue of NCR dated Dec. 31, 1999-Jan. 7, 2000. That's an extraordinary date. Whether we are, by then, giddy with the [...]

It will be a sad day for the humble book when NCR readers stop climbing on podiums and soapboxes and other high places to spread the word about their favorites. [...]

Each year, about this time, we invite NCR readers to tell us about their favorite book of the year. It is a chance to be interactive. And an opportunity to [...]

When our July 30 issue launched a search for a contemporary image of Jesus at 2000, we had little idea what a stir the story would make. The first major [...]

This is the only sensible millennium idea I've yet heard. Congratulations!' The above was just one of the many endorsements we received when word went out that NCR is sponsoring [...]

Last issue we announced an international art competition to find a contemporary Jesus for the new millennium. The reaction has been remarkable, as if the idea ignited some spark of [...]

The National Catholic Reporter announces an international visual art competition to find an image of Jesus for the new millennium. When Y2K is raised in conversation, most people seem to [...]