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Articles in Feb 23, 2007, issue of National Catholic Reporter

• Catholic hospital aloha
• Guest House—a Michigan-based treatment center for Catholic clergy and religious—and the National Catholic Council on Alcoholism and Related Drug Problems has honored Dominican Sr. Maurice Doody for her work with religious communities on chemical
• Interwoven DNA of Catholics, Jews
  by John L. Allen, Jr.
• Christians must reject all killing: arguments for both just war and abortion contradict our faith
  by Scott Schaeffer-Duffy
• Jesuits prepare to rethink everything: members must decide which works to emphasize, how to reorganize
  by Raymond A. Scroth
• Hands off Iraq: keep checkbooks out, urge Catholic antiwar groups
  by Emiliano Huet-Vaughn
• Quotable & notable
• Hard truths about prostitution
  by Margot Patterson
• Boomer returns to the box
  by James K. Hanna
• Bangladesh nuns grapple with new realities
• 'My wife is essential to my ministry'
  by Patricia Lefevere
• Under fire as 'anti-Christian bigots,' Edwards staffers quit
  by Joe Feurherd
• Edwina Gateley's dream
  by Margot Patterson
• Burden on soldiers
  by Andrew G. Favret
• 'Nun school' for the 21st century: an outdated version of the novitiate persists in movies, featuring strict rules, an emphasis on personal piety, and little interaction with the outside world
  by Marianne Comfort
• Soul sisters: former prostitutes tell their stories to the women who helped them leave the sex trade
  by Margot Patterson
• Church leaders to visit Tehran
• Shades of gray: a new look at whites' responses to the civil rights movement upends some stereotypes
  by Chris Byrd
• Don't kill enemies
  by Jack McHale
• Sinai icons offer insight into ancient monastery
  by Brenda Rees
• 2007 Ad
  by Antonia Ryan
• Parish firings spark feud
• Concern over bioethics may forge new allies
  by John L. Allen, Jr.
• Antiabortion vote
  by Charles Butera
• An intimacy with silence: small communities share their contemplative life with others
  by Rich Heffern
• School sports may be split
• Fanning the fire of qi: monk builds bridges between East and West, science and spirituality
  by Patricia Lefevere
• Starting point
  by Joni Woelfel
• Foreign adventures: 'God Grew Tired of Us' moves from Sudan to Pittsburgh; 'Mafioso' from Milan to a Sicilian village
  by Joseph Cuneen
• Like father, like son
  by Susanne Washburn
• Congregations stress Indian ways for religious
• Preserving marriage seen as goal
• Mission called integral to priesthood
• Franciscan Sr. Margaret Mary Kimmins has begun work for the Christian anti-hunger lobby Bread for the World, coordinating outreach to Catholic orders of women and men religious
• Libby trial needless but for Robert Novak
  by Colman McCarthy
• Women's ordination
  by Pace Rosemarie
• 'Love your local ecosystem,' Christian Brother says
  by Barbara J. Fraser
• Boards seek gender equality
• The head of the Australian Catholic Social Justice Council, Bishop Christopher Saunders of Broome, has reiterated calls for the release of David Hicks, a 31-year-old Australian imprisoned at the U.S. detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba
• This is the Part
  by Shannon O'Donnell
• Barack's blackness: color vs. experience
• Six regional Mercy communities to merge
  by Lisa Schulte
• Nuclear agreement welcomed
• Across the lines of faith
  by Tom Roberts
• Catholics swarm halls of Congress
  by Joe Feuerherd
• Grief
  by Jim Littwin
• The country's overdue mood swing
• Return to Peru: two Franciscans in their 80s choose mission for their retirement years
  by Patricia Lefevere
• Indian Cardinal Varkey Vithayathil addressed a gathering of several thousand, mostly Hindu, ascetics and philosophers gathered at the confluence of the Ganges and Yamuna rivers for the Hindu festival Khumbh Mela, Jan. 29
• Talk of war
• Study compares priestly models: Catholic and Orthodox clergy surveyed on morale, support
  by Patricia Lefevere
• Trying to measure the unmeasurable
  by Phyllis Zagano
• Transformation: Vatican II was only a beginning: radical changes await religious life in 21st century
  by Eileen Markey