Rick Casey

(NCR logo/Toni-Ann Ortiz) History doesn't repeat itself, the adage goes, but it often rhymes. We've learned that this year as we explore coverage in National Catholic Reporter over the past six decades. In August of 1972, President Richard Nixon campaigned hard for the Catholic vote, and NCR covered it from its then-newly opened Washington bureau. It goes to show that politicians have kept in mind the Catholic vote for decades.

(NCR logo/Toni-Ann Ortiz) In the wake of the Second Vatican Council, a wave of now-familiar but then-novel structures emerged: bishops' conferences, priests' councils, parish councils and diocesan pastoral councils.

The King is not amused. King Anchovy, that is, or rather a former King Anchovy. The City of San Antonio opposes bills in the Texas Legislature (most prominently SB 12, which nevertheless has passed the Senate) that would criminalize drag shows. City officials told legislators that the bill could put the city in jeopardy. The example: The city rents one of its facilities, the Empire Theatre, for the raucous Fiesta show, Cornyation.