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Articles in May 2, 2008, issue of National Catholic Reporter

• Proposed divestment pulled
• Inside the world of Dorothy Day: her just-published diaries offer an unrivaled look at a heroic and not unhappy life
  by Dana Greene
• Religion can be good for a laugh
  by Michael Humphrey
• Obama's error … and ours: Americans are hungry to engage spiritually with a 'politics of meaning'
  by Michael Lerner
• Eckhart Tolle
  by Paul Veliyathil
• Vatican's voice on sexual, medical ethics dies
• Ignorance: the new national threat
  by Cynthia D. Bertelsen
• Food riots underscore 'tsunami of need': experts address global crisis at conference in Kansas City
  by Rich Heffern
• The game of refugee roulette: David Ngaruri Kenney's story reveals the dark side of immigration law
  by Colman McCarthy
• Using water
  by Thomas Knoedler
• Clinton on economic justice, defense spending, gender
  by Mary Barron
• The mechanics of courage
  by Claire Schaeffer-Duffy
• Value people over profits, bishop urges
  by Michael Humphrey
• Helping those who help others: those who care for the aged need more from their parishes and families
  by Demetria Martinez
• Change church governance
  by Gene Kramer
• U.S. House passes debt relief
• Did the binding of Isaac change the world?
  by Darrell Turner
• U.S. bishops give pope money
• New parish models emerge
• Pope's American visit: What now?
• Daniel Ellsberg
  by James W. Hamilton
• Paying for the Holocaust
  by Doron Lubinsky
• Spring
  by Cathleen Zehms
• How the Jesuits helped to build a country
  by Jeffrey Marlett
• Traditionalists won't reconcile
• Chaplains minister to ship workers far from home
• Activist an icon in war-addicted world
• White privilege
  by Laurie Cassidy
• Krister Stendahl
• A misfit's insightful confessions
  by Rachelle Linner
• Fighting engulfs shrine
• Young Germans not inspired
• Meditating on mud cakes
  by Rita Larivee
• Blind obedience
  by David Lorenz
• Ted Turner
• Yunus walks the talk on poverty
  by Bill Williams
• Up, up and away: 'Flight of the Red Balloon' is cinematic poetry; 'The Visitor' looks at post-9/11 immigration practices
  by Joseph Cunneen
• The Leadership Conference of Women Religious
• Quotable & notable
• Post-election violence feared
• Adult Catholic education
  by J.M. Zatluka
• Neil Noesen
• Missionaries and mystics
  by Patrick Marrin
• Changing a feudal church: the author points to times when the very orthodox faith of the church was saved by its sensus fidelium
  by Thomas Groome
• Pope wins friends on first U.S. trip: praise for straight talk on abuse crisis; others call for action to back up words
  by John L. Allen, Jr.
• Siding with kids to end cruelty: Tom Roberts visited Port-au-Prince to learn more about Sr. Martha Vanrompay, a master infiltrator who is liberating restaveks, kids trapped in Haiti's shameful system of abuse
  by Tom Roberts
• The pope and the cover-up
  by John B. Caron
• Observations on attire
• Christianity's violent history
  by Joseph Cunneen
• At Niles Pond
  by Virginia L. Collins-English
• Calls for bishop's removal step up
  by Robert McClory
• Closet Catholic in the White House? Some say yes, others say perish the thought
  by Laura Lloyd
• Background for balance
  by Jeanne B. Dillon
• Small group members decide to stop feigning interest in each other
• Super Black
  by Larry Racunas
• Archbishop bars prominent priest as canon lawyer
  by Dennis Coday
• A resurgent Taliban: according to Arab media, the Taliban's war of attrition is meant to force the West to the negotiating table
  by Jalal Ghazi
• Memphis miracle
  by Kathryn Lawlor