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Article: Chittister to NCR: 'Stand up, speak out'.(NCR Celebrates 40th)(Cover Story)
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- National Catholic Reporter
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- December 10, 2004
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When NCR's 40th anniversary issue arrived in my little inner city convent, I leafed through it, making mental notes of the headlines and the bylines that I'd come back to later when I had more time to think about the ideas. But as I rifled through NCR's review of its years, I began to realize that I wasn't really so concerned about the content of that particular NCR as I was about the idea of NCR itself. And I began to realize that I wasn't holding a paper. I was holding three ideas that that paper had years ago brought to pulse in me.
The first idea came from the Roman philosopher Boethius: "Every age that is dying," Boethius taught, "is simply a new age coming ...