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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 [...]

The key votes chosen to record the 109th Congress illustrate the strategic decisions by the GOP leadership, since Republicans scheduled votes, knowing that the bills would not become law, to give their members a chance to appeal to conservative base voters. Twelve key votes each for the House and Senate for 2006 are described in the manner in which the resolutions were passed.

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 [...]

The article discusses the legislative actions and achievements of the 112th U.S. Congress in 2012. In 2012, the Congress reauthorized surface transportation, flood insurance, defense and federal aviation programs. Lawmakers also established normal trade relations with Russia and toughened sanctions on Iran. However, the Congress failed to reauthorize federal farm assistance programs and also failed to overhaul the Postal Service.

The article provides a state-by-state report on the standings of the Republican and Democratic national election nominees. A large number of electoral votes come from states where neither presidential candidates Barack Obama and Mitt Romney has a commanding lead. As of August, 2012, Obama can count on 201 electoral votes and Romney can count on 191. Eight Senate seats are in tossups while of 435 House seats, 194 seats are in Republicans' hands and 156 are in Democrats' side.