Heidi Schlumpf
NCR
Chicago, IL, United States
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What I'm reading, watching, listening to
Last summer in this column, I shared some of my favorite Catholic novels, and, after inviting readers to share theirs, I compiled a list of re... → Read More
Don't give up TikTok for Lent, at least not this year
Ash Wednesday is coming, so Catholics everywhere are discerning what to do for the Lenten season's practices of praying, fasting and almsgivin... → Read More
NCR wouldn't have published the Grindr story. Here's why.
It happens more often than you would think. A journalist learns something about someone on their beat, and it's interesting, even titillating or explosive, and the reporter wants to share it far and w... → Read More
Disagreeing without being disagreeable
I was called many things — many of them unprintable — after the publication of my last Connections column, which asserted that "AOC is the future of the Catholic Church." "Communist" and "baby kil... → Read More
AOC is the future of the Catholic Church
U.S. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's stunning speech on the House floor last week has been called "a comeback for the ages," "the most important feminist speech in a generation" and "a lesson in sexis... → Read More
The debate about debate
At a time when African Americans are dying in the streets and in their homes at the hands of police officers using excessive force, we should not let a discussion of the ins and outs of journalism dis... → Read More
New Matthew Kelly program sees parishes as fertile market for consulting
About 30 folks used to attend Bible study meetings at Most Holy Trinity in Covington, Louisiana, a parish founded in 2005 to accommodate the population boom north of New Orleans after Hurricane Katrin... → Read More
How Mother Angelica's 'miracle of God' became a global media empire
In a series of short videos recorded before her death, EWTN founder Mother Angelica reminisced about the early years of the Catholic television network. In one, the elderly nun opens a scrap... → Read More
Money trail tells the tale of EWTN's direction
EWTN founder Mother Angelica had a clever saying to remind viewers to mail their donations in support of her growing network: "Keep us between your gas and electric bill." Although it sounds dated in... → Read More
EWTN: connected to conservative Catholic money, anti-Francis elements
After more than a century of secret machinations, a group of Freemasons and Communists —aided by liberals, modernists and a mafia of reforming church leaders — are able to subvert the Catholic Chu... → Read More
The rise of EWTN: from piety to partisanship
On Memorial Day, viewers who tuned into EWTN's News Nightly for "news from a Catholic perspective" were treated to two previously recorded one-on-one interviews by anchor Lauren Ashburn. In the first... → Read More
Bishops of the United States: the basics
There are 441 active and retired Catholic bishops who oversee 196 Latin- and Eastern-rite dioceses and archdioceses and one "personal ordinariate" (for former Anglican groups and clergy in the United ... → Read More
Animosity, attacks against LGBT Catholics create 'toxic atmosphere'
In the more than quarter-century that Francis DeBernardo has been involved in LGBT ministry, only twice have protesters shown up to his organization's events for lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender ... → Read More
Admitted abuser still serves as professor, priestly status unknown
For Michael Bland, as for many victims of clerical sexual misconduct, this summer's relentless news of abuse and cover-up in the U.S. church has reopened painful wounds. And while many Catholics are ... → Read More
Morning Briefing
NCR calls for "radical reform of Catholic clerical culture and the meaning of ordination itself" in an editorial that also calls for independent investigations at every level of the church, publicatio... → Read More
Vigano letter draws fiery rhetoric from pope's opponents
Reaction to an explosive letter from a former Vatican ambassador to the United States has been swift and predictably partisan, leaving many Catholics wondering whether the letter's uncorroborated alle... → Read More
Catholic #MeToo victims and advocates face backlash
This September Donna Provencher will give birth to her second child. A few weeks after that, she may be appearing in court to defend herself in a defamation lawsuit that she sees as backlash for her s... → Read More
Kavanaugh is pro-life, but is he 'whole life'? Catholic commentators ask
Immediate reaction to U.S. Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh tended to fall along ideological lines and focus on Roe v. Wade, the landmark ruling that legalized abortion. But some Catholic comment... → Read More
Retired Washington cardinal out of ministry after credible abuse allegation
In a shocking announcement, Cardinal Theodore McCarrick, who served as the archbishop of Newark, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C., before retiring in 2006, has announced that he is stepping down from ... → Read More
Gun violence victims, celebrities join march and rally at St. Sabina Parish
Some came to see musicians Chance the Rapper, Jennifer Hudson and will.i.am, or the student activists who survived the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, or former ... → Read More