Let’s all agree to ‘live in tension’
Jan 25, 2018 by Dennis Coday [Dennis Coday was named editor of NCR Jan. 1, 2012. He has worked for NCR since 2003.]Opinion photo above: (Unsplash/Davide Ragusa) WN: Wow, eh?! (Okay, I’m Canadian…) an excerpt: The No. 1 example of [setting aside “the familiar rhetoric” and talking with folks as people] is found in the […]
Pope Francis’ blind spot on sexual abuse
Jan 25, 2018 by Thomas Reese, Religion News Service Opinion photo above: Pope Francis talks with Cardinal Sean Patrick O’Malley, left, as they arrive for a consistory at the Vatican on Feb. 13, 2015. (Courtesy of Reuters/Tony Gentile) WN: Given so many cover-ups of the horror of sexual abuse by priests, Pope Francis on down […]
Francis’ commitment to abuse survivors in question
Jan 23, 2018 by NCR Editorial Staff Accountability Opinion photo above: Pope Francis listens to a question from a journalist aboard his flight from Lima, Peru, to Rome Jan. 21. (CNS/Paul Haring) WN: This is a blunt and powerful Editorial. One wonders: What is it about (especially?) men in power that blinds us about getting […]
New York City vs. Big Oil
Flanked by Nation contributors Naomi Klein and Bill McKibben, Bill de Blasio announced that New York City would divest from and sue fossil-fuel companies. By Mark HertsgaardTwitter January 10, 2018, 10:35 pm photo above: Mayor Bill de Blasio announces NYC’s plan to divest from fossil fuels, January 10, 2018. (Sipa via AP Images) WN: […]
And the Trumpie goes to . . .
By Dana Milbank Opinion writer January 5 at 7:48 PM WN: despite what the article highlights below, there is someone I know well enough who accepts every Trump claim as Gospel truth. This staggers comprehension… excerpts: Of all the scandalous revelations in the Michael Wolff book, the most revealing may be the one about the […]