Episode 77: Adoption connects Tennessee family with Catholic sisters in China
Billy and Robin Worley explain how Global Sisters Report led them to connect with the Catholic sisters who cared for their adopted daughter...
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Episode 76: Nuns and Nones: Women religious and millennials find a common spiritual path
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...
Episode 75: Open wide our hearts: Unpacking the U.S. bishops' pastoral letter on racism
Fr. Joseph Brown, a Jesuit priest and professor at Southern Illinois University, offers a critique of the pastoral letter and outlines his v...
Episode 74: How (and why) Jews appreciate Catholics
Julia Lieblich, a Chicago journalist and author, and Rabbi James Rudin, who spent years as the American Jewish Committee's Interreligious Di...
Episode 73: Eating animals and climate change
This week, as folks in the United States sit down to tables full of food for Thanksgiving, NCR columnist Colman McCarthy warns against enjoy...
Episode 72: What happened at the USCCB fall meeting?
NCR national correspondent Heidi Schlumpf and columnist Michael Sean Winters discuss the U.S. bishops' annual fall meeting and what it means...
Episode 71: Creating a future: New approaches to the opioid crisis
Elizabeth Eisenstadt Evans, a contributor to NCR and Global Sisters Report, talks about her reporting on the opioid epidemic and the efforts...
Episode 70: The 2018 midterm elections and the Catholic vote
NCR reporters Heidi Schlumpf, Brian Roewe and Maria Benevento talk about their recent political reporting and how polarity is changing the c...
Episode 69: Keeping families together: Catholic social teaching as a lens for immigration issues
Brenda Nettles Riojas, director of diocesan relations for the Diocese of Brownsville, Texas, and Clara Dina Hinojosa, associate editor of Ce...
Episode 68: Reporting from Rome: On the synod, women's rights and accountability
NCR Vatican correspondent Joshua McElwee and national correspondent Heidi Schlumpf talk about their recent reporting from Rome on the synod...
Episode 67: Dangerous Saints: Canonizing Oscar Romero, Pope Paul VI and Catherine Kasper
Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero will be made a saint on Sunday, along with Pope Paul VI, Fr. Francesco Spinelli, Fr. Vincenzo Romano, Mot...
Episode 66: Making a deal: Politics, state control and the Catholic Church in China
Researcher Mary Li Ma and Michael Agliardo, SJ, explain the historical and political context for the Vatican's recent agreement with Chinese...
Episode 65: Strangers in the pews: Why systemic racism is a pro-life issue
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...
Episode 64: Why we stay: Young Catholics on healing from the clergy sexual abuse crisis
NCR columnist Brian Harper, contributor Julie Bourbon and theologian Annie Selak talk about how young Catholics are staying in the church an...
Episode 63: Gathering together: Hispanic Catholics at the V Encuentro
Global Sisters Report staff writer Soli Salgado talks about the upcoming V Encuentro, a national gathering of Hispanic Catholics in Grapevin...
Episode 62: Is the church in crisis? Updates on clergy sex abuse
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...
Episode 61: Humanae Vitae at 50
Released by Pope Paul VI in 1968, Humanae Vitae, or "Of Human Life," established church teaching on family planning and artificial contracep...
Episode 60: Ordinary Time
Sr. Mary McGlone, a contributor to NCR's column Scripture for Life, talks about the liturgical season of Ordinary Time and its significance...
Episode 59: Reducing plastic waste
NCR staff writer Brian Roewe's three-part series "Reducing Waste" looks at the challenge posed by plastic pollution — the theme of Earth Day...
Episode 58: Clergy sex abuse fallout in Chile
NCR Vatican correspondent Joshua McElwee and Fr. James Connell, a retired priest in the Milwaukee Archdiocese, canon lawyer, and a founding...