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.
The Catholic Herald has been around in the U.K. for 130 years, and now it's launched a U.S. edition. In today's lead NCR story, UK's Catholic Herald hopes to tap into US conservative Catholic pool, national correspondent Heidi Schlumpf reports on the publication's place as a new arrival to the conservative Catholic scene.
Today is the first day of Lent, and our Daily Lenten Reflections series begins in earnest (though the lead-up reflections that ran Monday and Tuesday are worth a read, too). For Ash Wednesday, NCR columnist Melissa Musick Nussbaum explores parallels between the well-worn paths of a neighborhood walk and the yearly familiarity of liturgy: The sign of the cross.
For a different look at liturgy: 'Honest Rituals' argues for sacrament update. Marian Ronan has a review of the book by Joseph Martos.
Loretto Volunteer Adele McKiernan debuts on GSR in the Notes from the Field blog, sharing her experience of praying for her mother at a Marian shrine, Our Lady of the Snows.
"Francis, don't you see that my house is being destroyed? Go, then, and rebuild it for me." Friar Daniel Horan writes that Francis of Assisi's model for church reform may help in the abuse crisis.
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