Pat Marrin

Pat is the former editor of our sister publication, Celebration, which closed in 2019. Pat also served as NCR cartoonist. After retirement in 2016, Pat continues to contribute to NCR with his Francis comic strip and Pencil Preaching. You can reach Pat at patrickjmarrin@gmail.com.

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Jun 20, 2019

Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip: Brother Leo talks with Francis about the hardest part of being pope.

Jun 19, 2019

Transaction or Encounter?

Pencil Preaching for Thursday, June 20, 2019

Jun 18, 2019

Come Away to Your Secret Place

Pencil Preaching for Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Jun 18, 2019

Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip: Francis talks with a bishop about his plan for evangelizing young people.

Jun 17, 2019

Children of God

Impossible Dream or the only way forward?

Jun 16, 2019

Now Is the Acceptable Time

Pencil Preaching for Monday, June 17, 2019

Jun 15, 2019

Fasten Your Seatbelts

Pencil Preaching for Trinity Sunday, June 16, 2019

Jun 13, 2019

Earthen Vessels

God gives us what we cannot earn.

Jun 13, 2019

Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip: Where are all the young Catholics going?

Jun 12, 2019

"I'm Sorry"

The best "Get Out of Jail Free" card ever devised

Jun 11, 2019

I have come to fulfill, not abolish

Traditionalists and Progressives, can we get along?

Jun 11, 2019

Francis, the comic strip

Francis, the comic strip: Is Pope Francis getting smaller? It just depends on your point of view.

Jun 10, 2019

St. Barnabas, Apostle

Reflection for June 11, 2019

Jun 09, 2019

Mother Mary

Pencil Preaching for Monday, June 10, 2019

Jun 09, 2019

Every baptized believer has a gift essential to the whole church

Daily Easter Reflection: The feast of Pentecost is really a celebration of the triumph of community over the divisions created by selfishness, suspicion and sin.