Watch National Catholic Reporter senior correspondent John L. Allen Jr. and Religion & Ethics NewsWeekly managing editor Kim Lawton discuss the Roman Catholic Church’s plan to absorb unhappy Anglicans wishing to become Catholics. More →

October 23, 2009

Read more of Judy Valente’s interview with Rosemary Radford Ruether on the Catholic sex abuse scandal. More →

May 10, 2002

Read more of Judy Valente’s interview with Sister Carolyn Farrell on Catholicism in America. More →

May 10, 2002

As American Catholics have reeled from the disclosures of past sexual abuses by priests, and evidence they were covered up, one of the questions raised has concerned priestly celibacy — abstinence from sex. Was that requirement a cause of the abuses? Is it necessary for dedicated ministry? Should it be made optional? More →

April 12, 2002

To average Catholics, it may be hard to imagine their priest with a wife and children. But, to a limited extent, it is already happening. More →

June 22, 2001