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2 weeks ago | ncronline.org | Ncr VoicesNcr |James V. Grimaldi

Many famous writers' bylines have graced the pages of the National Catholic Reporter in the past six decades. In 2003, a blockbuster novel that later became a blockbuster movie, The Da Vinci Code, was reviewed by one of the most famous Catholic writers in the past century. The NCR reviewer was Fr. Andrew Greeley, whom The New York Times described in his 2013 obituary as "priest, scholar, preacher, social critic, storyteller and scold."Greeley was prolific.

2 months ago | ncronline.org | Jeromiah Taylor |James V. Grimaldi |Don Jardin |Ncr VoicesNcr

The past few months at NCR have been especially riveting. We've committed ourselves to covering how Catholics and the church are responding to the onslaught of cruelty and democratic dismantlement erupting from the second Trump administration. A lot has happened in very little time, and as we perused our archives for this installment of our 60th anniversary feature, we couldn't help but be particularly struck by the story reprinted here. This headline from April 10, 1970, rings a bell, doesn't it?