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I have a question that has concerned me for a long time. This came to the fore as I read the lead editorial in the April 18th issue of NCR entitled , ' Avoided : King's Reality ' . Are we telling Martin Luther King to ' Dream On ' ? Our national leaders continually pressure the Chinese leaders and their like over Human Rights violations , especially in the run - up to events like the Olympics. Yet they feel supremely Justified in engaging in torture and the death penalty when their own interests are at stake.

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By KEVIN ECKSTROM

Cardinal Edward Egan of New York says he wants to meet with former Mayor Rudolph Giuliani after Giuliani broke their “understanding” and took Communion at a papal Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral.

Egan said Monday (April 28) that he had a tacit agreement with Giuliani that “he was not to receive the Eucharist because of his well-known support of abortion.”

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A pedagogy of forgiveness
Bishop Gregorio Rosa Chávez, auxiliary bishop of San Salvador, El Salvador, visited the offices of National Catholic Reporter on Friday March 28. He talked with the editorial staff on a wide range of issues. One of his topics was the development of Catholic Social Teaching in the Latin American context. Helping the bishop with translation is Elly Jordan of the Share Foundation. (Photos by Teresa Malcolm.)

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Reviewed by John Dear S.J.

JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters by James W. Douglass Orbis Books, 544 pages, $30

This week, Orbis Books publishes one of its most significant books in years, a labor of some 15 years work by Jim Douglass. JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matters tells the painful, hopeful story of John F. Kennedy's efforts to save us from nuclear war, his decision to pull out troops from Vietnam, and his call for nuclear disarmament, a vision that animated shadowy forces in the U.S. government to do away with him and his vision.

I consider Jim one of the world's leading theologians of Christian nonviolence. His brilliance is reflected in his powerful books, The Nonviolent Cross, Lightning East to West, Resistance and Contemplation and The Nonviolent Coming of God (all recently republished by Wipf and Stock).

Dear Pope Benedict:

In your speech to the United Nations, you spoke eloquently about human rights as a path to equality, however, sadly, the Roman Catholic church discriminates against women . Church law bars women from ordination and patriarchal structures have colluded with the sexual abuse and violence against women that occurs in all religions, nations, and cultures throughout the centuries.

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