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Articles in August 31, 2007, issue of National Catholic Reporter

• The triumph of evangelical catholicism
  by John L. Allen, Jr.
• Costa Rican President Oscar Arias shakes hands with Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega as Cardinal Miguel Obando Bravo of Managua, Nicaragua, watches during the celebration of the 20th anniversary of the Central America Peace Agreement at Catholic Univers
• Assumptionist Fr. George H. Tavard, a noted ecumenist, died Aug. 13 in Paris where he had been vacationing
• Beat the summer doldrums: 'The Simpsons Movie' and 'My Best Friend' provide plenty of laughs
  by Joseph Cunneen
• Praying for the Jews
  by Charles Chotkowski
• Synod for folks in the pews
  by Dennis Coday
• Priests' trial highlights torture
• Fr. Thiruchelvam Nihal Jim Brown, 35, and his assistant Wenceslaus Vimalathas, 40, a father of five, disappeared from Jaffna in northern Sri Lanka, a year ago amid warfare between government security forces and rebel Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam
• Early on the U.S. religious scene
  by Darrell Turner
• The Latin Mass
  by Marie Fehribach
• Fighting malnutrition: one spoonful at a time
  by Trevor Snapp
• Fast for climate change planned
• Liberal Catholicism endures in pastoral church
  by John L. Allen, Jr.
• Barry Bonds is just like the rest of us
  by Colman McCarthy
• Holy conversation
• Small groups said to personalize a church too large for relationships
  by Emilie Lemmons
• The rights and duties of the laity
  by Dennis Coday
• The grim eloquence of charred corpses
  by Demetria Martinez
• Last words
  by Clarence Thomson
• Quotable & notable
• Two years after Katrina: New Orleanians' stories show what was lost, what they fight to save
  by Jason Berry
• Ego te baptizo
  by Tom Keene
• Fall & winter listings
• Court allows protests to resume
• Women rebuild lives after horrors of human trafficking
  by Melissa McNally
• Unbridled
  by Crystal Clark
• Seoul releases finance report
• Most unaware of bishops' responses to clergy sex abuse
• Sueno
  by Gerry Creedon
• Starting point
  by Christina Zaker
• The eye of the enneagram: truth lies not in what we say but how we see
  by Clarence Thomson
• Norman Finkelstein
  by John T. Richardson
• Proselytizing code considered
• Conference of Ma jor Superiors of Men
• The facts about soldiers' ages: U.S. troops today are older—and more responsible—than Americans like to think
  by Jerry Lembcke
• Reconciliation after abuse
  by Robert M. Kraus, Sr.
• 2008 Ad
• Imagining what might be
  by Rita Larivee
• The Leadership Conference of Women Religious presented its 2007 Outstanding Leadership Award to Benedictine Sr. Joan Chittister, activist, speaker and longtime columnist for NCR
• The Zen of seeing
  by Clarence Thomson
• Christopher Hitchens
  by Eduardo Antonetti