National Catholic Reporter at Fifty
Subtitle: The Story of the Pioneering Paper and Its Editors
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 312
ISBN-13: 9781442236110
Subjects: Catholic church, united states; Catholic church, periodicals
Description: National Catholic Reporter at Fifty tells the story of the award-winning Catholic paper through five decades of provocative reporting. Founded during the Second Vatican Council, NCR has been a powerful progressive voice in the Catholic Church and has broken a number of challenging stories - publishing the secret Papal Birth Control Commission report that recommended ending the ban on birth control (which Pope Paul IV overrode), the first to cover the nationwide clerical pedophilia crisis, and reporting the scandal that African priests were seducing or raping nuns because they were AIDS-free on a continent that wasn't. -- from dust jacket.