Front-row Vatican coverage:

News

US Catholic clergy shortage eased by recruits from Africa

By Kwasi Gyamfi Asiedu, Associated Press
NCR Voices

What to expect in the world of US politics in 2022

By Michael Sean Winters

New report on Amazon Basin offers solutions to repair some damage to the region's ecosystems

By Barbara Fraser

Five years after his death, Leonard Cohen is more than ever a man for our times

By Marcia Pally, Religion News Service

EarthBeat Weekly: The stories that captured our readers' attention most in 2021

By Brian Roewe

A 'Catholic' diocese that values internet hierarchy over religious expertise

By Renée Roden, Religion News Service
Book Reviews

On Toni Morrison, divine feminine power and Afro-Catholicism

By Nadra Nittle

Pope, patriarch offer prayers as young Europeans hold Taizé prayer online

By Cindy Wooden, Catholic News Service

Vatican pays tribute to 22 church workers murdered in 2021

By Catholic News Service
NCR Voices

Links: Cincinnati Men's Conference; fragmenting Trumpism; airport design award

By Michael Sean Winters

Former boarding school for Indigenous children owning up to its past

By Peter Smith, The Associated Press

At year's end, little change on the US immigration front

By Rhina Guidos, Catholic News Service

Pope launches synodal process to discern Holy Spirit's call to the church

By Dennis Sadowski, Catholic News Service

Priest who led diocesan Office of Child Protection charged in abuse case

By Catholic News Service

Vatican adds QR code to sculpture to educate people about migration

By Catholic News Service

Richard Hirsch, former U.S. bishops' communications secretary, dies

By Mark Pattison, Catholic News Service

Mideast Catholic patriarchs urge Christmas hope amid misery

By Doreen Abi Raad, Catholic News Service
NCR Voices

What a burial service for 1,780 unclaimed dead tells us about dignity

By David E. DeCosse

There are no African American saints. A lay Catholic group seeks to change that.

By Alejandra Molina, Religion News Service

Abortion, religious liberty, vaccine cases top Supreme Court's busy 2021

By Carol Zimmermann, Catholic News Service

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