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.