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Articles in March 21, 2008, issue of National Catholic Reporter
- Blast damages cathedral
- Pope's words on women
by A. Regina Schulte - Church paid $615 million on abuse claims in 2007
- The crosses of Christ
by Leo J. O'Donovan - Refugee housing confiscated
- Inside Myanmar: an overview of a troubled land
by Teresa Malcolm - The need to beat somebody up: PBS offers an in-depth look at 'Bush's War'
by Raymond A. Schroth - Exodus from the church
by Paul J. Ackerman - The peace pulprit
- Confronting white privilege: can today's politics shift the balance?
by Tom Roberts - Iraq war
by David A. Appling - Complex stories: 'The counterfeiters' offers powerful drama; 'Definitely, Maybe' is a charming romance
by Joseph Cunneen - Roman pope, American culture: as with John Paul before him, Benedict could use language lessons
by David Gibson - World Youth Day costs increase
- Spanish theologians rapped
- A conservative with wit and style
by Colman McCarthy - Jesus through Anne Rice's eyes
by Benedicta Cipolla - The pitfalls of shrouded finances: mandatory public disclosure could make the difference between good stewardship and the kind of fiasco that has rocked the Cleveland diocese
by Bill Frogameni - Christian political agenda: broadening or splintering?
by Michael Humphrey - Many choose meatless Fridays
- My personal invisible rabbit
by Christopher de Vinck - Wrong language renders baptism null: gender-neutral words mean sacrament must be redone, Vatican says
by Rich Heffern - Old sins revisited
- Konig, Dupuis lament censure: Cardinal, theologian find Vatican wrong on Asia's needs
- Eliot Spitzer's very bad day
- Confusion expected on Zimbabwe election day
- Two giants of the church
by Rita Larivee - Desperate times in Israel and Gaza
- Cruel nuns
by Robert F. Brady, Jr. - Diocese OKs cancer fund
- Writer witnessed conversation between cardinal and censured theologian Jacques Dupuis
by Christa Pongratz-Lippitt - Summer listings: fill your mind & heart this summer …
- Yale University
- No evil people
by Robert Gularte - Quotable & notable
- Fr. Bozek
by Janis Fitschen - Jews debate anti-gentile prayers
by Menachem Wecker - Canon Law Society of America
- St. Louis archbishop moves to have priest laicized
- Slandering McCain
by John J. Thulis - Scientist-priest wins 2008 Templeton prize
- Chris Herlinger
- Iraqi archbishop found dead
- Martin Sheen
- Luther's rehabilitation called groundless
- Law-abiding people
by Fred Mercy