by Teresa Malcolm
Our team of copy editors reads and posts most of what you see on the websites for National Catholic Reporter and Global Sisters Report (the NCR project focusing on women religious). The Copy Desk Daily highlights recommended news and opinion articles that have crossed our desks on their way to you.
Six years ago today, Argentine Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio was elected pope and chose the name Francis. On this anniversary, find out why columnist Michael Sean Winters believes the sixth year may go down as the most decisive in Francis' papacy.
Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister continues her series on the Twelve Degrees of Humility. The fourth degree pushes up against American culture's speed and pressure, but St. Benedict's Rule tells us that society profits from the power of patience.
New Ukraine church endures inter-Orthodox feud, but offers Catholics hope — hope for improved ecumenical relations with Orthodox in the Ukraine, once the church is up and running after its break with the Moscow Patriarchate.
Banning a child from school is the real inconsistency, says NCR's latest editorial. A kindergartner with same-sex parents cannot enroll in a Kansas parish school, but does the archdiocese take moral inventory of any other parental situations?
Moving to the big city was a big change for Good Shepherd Volunteer Samantha Wirth. In her new entry in GSR's Notes from the Field blog, she contemplates how her NYC commute is a physical signifier of transitions as a volunteer.
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