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Dear readers Every September, we take a few pages of the newspaper to shine a light of gratitude on you, our Friends of NCR. Your generous support sustains NCR's mission [...]

Dear Readers, Every year we devote a few pages of our newspaper to honor you, our Friends of NCR whose steadfast support helps keep the mission of NCR alive. As [...]

When I worked at The Kansas City Star in the late 1980s, I edited a story about a local doctor that contained some information with which he took issue. He [...]

As publisher of National Catholic Reporter, I occasionally have the sad honor of representing NCR at the funeral of someone who has had a special relationship with this news organization. [...]

On Oct. 28, 1964, National Catholic Reporter published its first issue, offering this promise from founding editor Robert G. Hoyt: 'We are committed to the church, and secure enough in [...]

In the Aug. 25-Sept. 7 issue of NCR, I wrote about Sr. Helen Garvey and the motivating spirit she brought to gatherings and communities. For many years, Helen was the [...]

Sr. Helen Garvey loved small groups. At any gathering of the National Catholic Reporter's board of directors, Helen invariably suggested we break into small groups. We would all get up [...]

Editor Dennis Coday is traveling during this publication week to Quebec City for the annual conference of the Catholic Press Association. Ask him sometime just how difficult it is to [...]

I don't share this often, but I am the mother of a young woman with special challenges. I don't like to use the term 'special needs,' because she has the [...]

Last year, NCR received what is known in the fundraising world as a 'significant gift' from the estate of a longtime reader. Of course, the definition of 'significant' is relative, [...]

Recently, I had to make the decision to upgrade NCR's web hosting service. NCR's website, NCRonline.org, had started to use most of the capacity we had purchased a few years [...]

Bad and sad news remains newsworthy and this paper seems to operate on the sunshine: exposing ills to the sunlight is the first step to healing. With that sentence, the [...]

You've heard often enough that NCR has been publishing since 1964. But did you know we have another publication, a monthly magazine, that has been around almost as long? Celebration [...]

It's not often we get the chance to witness that the work we do is worth the effort. Those of us here at National Catholic Reporter were blessed with just [...]

Did you hear that the pope was in the United States recently? News coverage of this historic trip was so pervasive that a Facebook friend posted this request to fellow [...]

Editor Dennis Coday is in Buffalo, N.Y., for the Catholic Press Association's annual conference. In his absence, I agreed to write this column, always willing to take advantage of a [...]

The United States is one of nine nations Amnesty International lists as 'persistent executioners.' The others? China, Iraq, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Sudan, Bangladesh and North Korea. The European Union [...]

As I write this, workers outside my window are preparing to hang a banner on the fading brick wall of our building here in midtown Kansas City, Mo. The sign [...]