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In Conversation is an in-depth look at the week's Catholic news as seen by the staff at National Catholic Reporter. Hosted by NCR engagement editor Brittany Wilmes, In Conversation features...

Billy and Robin Worley explain how Global Sisters Report led them to connect with the Catholic sisters who cared for their adopted daughter...

GSR's Soli Salgado is on the show to discuss Nuns and Nones, a new movement that brings together Catholic sisters and Millennials who are re...

Fr. Joseph Brown, a Jesuit priest and professor at Southern Illinois University, offers a critique of the pastoral letter and outlines his v...

Julia Lieblich, a Chicago journalist and author, and Rabbi James Rudin, who spent years as the American Jewish Committee's Interreligious Di...

This week, as folks in the United States sit down to tables full of food for Thanksgiving, NCR columnist Colman McCarthy warns against enjoy...

NCR national correspondent Heidi Schlumpf and columnist Michael Sean Winters discuss the U.S. bishops' annual fall meeting and what it means...

Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans, a contributor to NCR and Global Sisters Report, talks about her reporting on the opioid epidemic and the efforts...

NCR reporters Heidi Schlumpf, Brian Roewe and Maria Benevento talk about their recent political reporting and how polarity is changing the c...

Brenda Nettles Riojas, director of diocesan relations for the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, and Clara Dina Hinojosa, associate editor of Ce...

NCR Vatican correspondent Joshua McElwee and national correspondent Heidi Schlumpf talk about their recent reporting from Rome on the synod...

Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will be made a saint on Sunday, along with Pope Paul VI, Fr. Francesco Spinelli, Fr. Vincenzo Romano, Mot...

Researcher Mary Li Ma and Michael Agliardo, SJ, explain the historical and political context for the Vatican's recent agreement with Chinese...

John Gehring and Jeanne Isler of Faith in Public Life discuss systemic racism in the United States and what Catholics can do when bishops fa...

NCR columnist Brian Harper, contributor Julie Bourbon and theologian Annie Selak talk about how young Catholics are staying in the church an...

Global Sisters Report staff writer Soli Salgado talks about the upcoming V Encuentro, a national gathering of Hispanic Catholics in Grapevin...

NCR's Joshua McElwee, Heidi Schlumpf, Michael Sean Winters and Dennis Coday talk about the summer's events that have led to an internal powe...

Released by Pope Paul VI in 1968, Humanae Vitae, or "Of Human Life," established church teaching on family planning and artificial contracep...

Sr. Mary McGlone, a contributor to NCR's column Scripture for Life, talks about the liturgical season of Ordinary Time and its significance...

NCR staff writer Brian Roewe's three-part series "Reducing Waste" looks at the challenge posed by plastic pollution — the theme of Earth Day...

NCR Vatican correspondent Joshua McElwee and Fr. James Connell, a retired priest in the Milwaukee Archdiocese, canon lawyer, and a founding...

Sr. Joan Chittister, recently joined NCR staff and friends to ask Tom Roberts to reflect on his decades in Catholic journalism. Tom served o...

Dan Morris-Young, a reporter for our Field Hospital beat, covers Catholic life across the country, reporting on the ministries, issues and p...

NCR Bertelsen intern Maria Benevento reports on the modern developments of the Catholic Worker movement. Jim Forest, author of "At Play in t...

In a newly released book, former presidents of the Leadership Congregation of Women Religious, members of the organization's executive staff...

With spring comes baseball—and this year, two brand-new columns on NCRonline.org. The Gospel of Sports, by Mike Jordan Laskey, will publish...

On Monday April 9, the Vatican announced the release of a new papal document titled Gaudete et Exsultate, or "Rejoice and Be Glad!" NCR's Va...

NCR contributors Patricia Lefevere and Alex Mikulich talk about Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life and legacy and the shared inspiration that dr...

NCR columnist Melissa Musick Nussbaum and her daughter Anna Keating are the co-authors of The Catholic Catalogue: A Field Guide to the Daily...

One national ministry has had massive success reaching out to college-age Catholics: the Fellowship of Catholic University Students, or FOCU...

NCR's Joshua McElwee and Michael Sean Winters talk about Pope Francis' leadership and the legacy of his papacy, five years in.

NCR contributor Kelly Stewart and Episcopal priest Kira Schlesinger discuss Kira's book "Pro-Choice and Christian: Reconciling Faith, Politi...

On Tuesday, hundreds gathered on Capitol Hill for a Catholic Day of Action for Dreamers where they spoke, prayed, and sang. NCR contributor...

NCR books editor Jamie Manson talks about three upcoming books from prominent theologians: "The Unmoored God," by Paul Crowley, SJ; "Creatio...

Nancy Sylvester, founder and director of the Institute for Communal Contemplation and Dialogue, talks today about contemplative reflection....

Chris Herlinger traveled to Haiti last year, where he met Sisters of St. John the Evangelist who run a shelter for children in danger of bei...

Today on the show, Dr. Tim Uhl, the superintendent of Montana Catholic Schools and host of the podcast Catholic School Matters. We talk abou...

NCR contributor Julie Bourbon reports on a study of "nones" — that is, n-o-n-e-s, or young adults who don't identify with any organized reli...

NCR staff writer Brian Roewe has been reporting on an excommunication case in Nebraska with a lot of history behind it. Last year, members o...

NCR's Vatican correspondent Joshua McElwee talks about Pope Francis' upcoming trip to Chile and Peru. The papal trip takes place January 15-...

Retired priest Bill O'Malley shares some of his resolutions for 2018. Now 86, Fr. O'Malley draws on his decades of creativity and teaching e...

Today, Sr. Linda Romey talks about how "bad theology" perpetuates gender inequality and the role that women religious play in this #MeToo mo...

In this episode, NCR columnist and blogger Tom Carney argues that the mystery of Christmas is drowned out by the commercial holiday. Tom tal...

Global Sisters Report staff writer Dawn Araujo-Hawkins talks about how congregations of women religious are working to make amends for histo...

Global Sisters Report international correspondent Chris Herlinger talks about reporting in difficult locations like South Sudan and how sist...

In this episode, NCR editor Dennis Coday stops by the studio to talk about recent news, including the pope's visit to Myanmar and Bangladesh...

NCR contributor Melissa Musick Nussbaum speaks about liturgical traditions that remember the dead and how Catholics can start their own trad...

This week, Joshua McElwee , NCR Vatican correspondent, reports from a recent high-profile conference at the Vatican on nuclear disarmament....

This week's episode starts with a segment from the Ignatian Family Teach-In for Justice. Nearly 2,000 Jesuit-educated high school and colleg...

In this episode, host Brittany Wilmes is joined by some NCR reporters who are looking at key political issues a year after the presidential...

This week, NCR Vatican correspondent Joshua J. McElwee talks about a recent public correction Pope Francis made to an article by Cardinal Ro...