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October 31, 2008 Vol 45 No 01

Most recent issue: October 31, 2008 Vol. 45, No. 01

Cover story -- Catholic Vote

Abortion: Its shifting place in the political landscape

By Tom Roberts
The emergence of lay efforts.

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Antiabortion imperative more complex than acknowledged

By John L. Allen Jr.
Bishops' views on abortion.

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Group targets parishes with anti-Obama flier

By Michael Humphrey
Parish pamphleting.

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Nation

Callahan steps down as leader at Quixote Center

By Thomas C. Fox
For decades, Bill Callahan has embodied a call for justice, one shared by a generation of U.S. Catholics moved by waves of idealism first thundering through their church in the 1960s.

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Churches push fair-trade chocolate for Holloween

By Religion News Service
Halloween's a time for pumpkins, costumes, and -- if some faith-based groups have their way this year -- global market awareness.

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Priest suspended after speaking against gay marriage ban

By Chuck Colbert
Fr. Geoffrey Farrow, a diocesan priest who criticized church leadership for supporting California Proposition 8, a ballot measure that would make it unconstitutional for same-sex couples to marry, was suspended by Bishop John Steinbock of Fresno, Calif.

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East & West

In spirit, the world is one

By Thomas C. Fox
East, West seek same inner stillness.

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Laughter a fun way to better health

By Patty McCarty
Is it possible I could slim my waistline just by laughing?

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East and West -- Book Reviews

Author unravels Gandhian take on salvation

GANDHI & JESUS: THE SAVING POWER OF NONVIOLENCE
By Terrence J. Rynne
Orbis Books, 228 pages, $20

Reviewed by Erin Ryan

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NCR Editorial

The bishops' futile election strategy

Another presidential election cycle is nearly ended, and once again the Catholic bishops in the United States have sadly distinguished themselves for the narrowness and, in too many cases, barely concealed partisanship of their political views.

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Quotable & Notable

"Depressions start not when lots of people are worried about them, as we have today, but when no one is worried about them, as in 1929."

-- Jason Zweig, the Intelligent Investor columnist for The Wall Street Journal

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Columns

Stafford Betty

Debating gay marriage and Proposition 8

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Colman McCarthy

Two titans from Alaska

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Joe Feuerherd

Can a conscientious Catholic vote for McCain?

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World

The Bible and the life of the church

By John L. Allen Jr.
At synod, pope warns against 'secularized' scripture scholarship.

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Child miners struggle to survive

By Sharanjeet Parmar and Matthew Wells
Under the glare of a West African sun, 15-year-old Ibrahim stands and stretches after hours of washing gravel in a mining pit. Splattered with mud, he surveys the other children mining; their threadbare clothes hang loosely on their thin bodies.

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Global crisis hits Guatemala corn farmers

By Catholic News Service
Two years after it began, the global food crisis is pushing millions of Central Americans, including those in Guatemala's highlands, into conditions of poverty.

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East and West -- Book Reviews

Buddhist reflections on caring for the earth, each other

	THE WORLD WE HAVE: A BUDDHIST APPROACH TO PEACE AND ECOLOGY By Thich Nhat Hanh Parallax Press, 141 pages, $10.95
	TOGETHER UNDER ONE ROOF: MAKING A HOME OF BUDDHA'S HOUSEHOLD By Lin Jensen Wisdom Publications, 276 pages, $16.95

Reviewed by Teresa Malcolm

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Inside NCR

Tom Roberts

FROM THE EDITOR'S DESK

Election year in a flyover state
Live in the heartland for any length of time and you reach a certain accommodation with the pluses and minuses of residing in a "flyover" state.

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Reflection

Guarding your memories

By Heather King
My story! My story is alcoholism, wrong turns, pain. My story is tenuous mental health, fear. But my story is also the story of the Prodigal Daughter returning home, of being welcomed back to the banquet table.

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Cornered