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Lawrence Guillot is unusually well equipped to research and write this history of the National Catholic Reporter. A former priest with a doctorate in theology, he has run nonprofits and provided expert consulting services to firms facing the kinds of issues challenging NCR. He was acquainted with NCR's founders and has followed its evolution closely. When Pope John XXIII announced in 1959 his plans to convene the Second Vatican Council, Guillot was a masters' degree candidate in theology in Rome, living at the North American College. After ordination to the priesthood in 1960 and the degree completed, he did two years of pastoral work in his hometown of Kansas City, Missouri. His associates included NCR's first board chair, publisher, and editor. He returned to Rome to begin doctoral work in ecumenical theology at the Gregorian University in 1963-65 and was present at the second and third Sessions of Vatican II. As he had written articles for the Kansas City Star-Times and the Catholic Reporter, he was able to obtain a press pass and attend debriefings on events of Vatican Council II. When the new Joint Commission on Anglican-Roman Catholic Relations was formed, Guillot was appointed Joint Secretary of the Joint Commission with the task of managing the working documents and reports of the Commission. He completed the dissertation and published the conclusions in Ministry in Ecumenical Perspective (Gregorian University, 1969). Active in ecumenical affairs, he was a regular contributor to The Journal of Ecumenical Affairs, the Ecumenist, and Unity Trends. After serving as a Catholic priest for ten years, Guillot petitioned for and received a dispensation from the clerical state and married in 1970. He and his wife Leslie, a native of Saint Louis, chose Kansas City as home base. They have two daughters, Ann and Laura, and four grandchildren. He refocused his professional life on community service and over the next 40 years managed a training center for VISTA volunteers, was the first ombudsman/executive director of a human relations/civil rights office in county government, associate director of a large nonprofit community development housing agency, dean of continuing education in the metropolitan community college system, executive director of a consulting service to nonprofit social service agencies, and his own consulting service. Together with another executive director, he published Manage for Excellence: A Workbook for the Nonprofit Manager (Kansas City, 1985). From 1985 to 2011, he served as senior graduate adjunct professor for the Graduate School of Public Affairs of Park University. He co-designed the curriculum for a new degree in the management of nonprofit organizations and taught classes in Social Policy, the Nature of the Nonprofit Sector, and the Management of Nonprofit Organizations, first in the classroom and then online versions.
This book is a masterful and utterly fascinating history of the National Catholic Reporter's ups and downs, highs and lows, and enduring importance. Michael Leach, publisher emeritus, Orbis Books, and author of Why Stay Catholic Beacon of Justice, Community, and Hope tells how NCR has pushed for change as a thorn in the side of the church establishment for almost 60 years. Craig R. Whitney, former New York Times foreign correspondent and editor The National Catholic Reporter is the newspaper that brought me to adulthood in the church. NCR's current news reports, spirituality, and analysis continue to do that, nurturing us into mature 21st-century Catholicism. Sr. Jeannine Gramick, co-founder of New Ways Ministry, a ministry on behalf of LGBTQ+ Catholics NCR has survived not only through honest and dogged reporting but also through forward-thinking business acumen. David Bonior, a retired member of Congress The National Catholic Reporter has served as the Catholic guide to great writing, to profound social development, and to the truth-telling commitment that keeps the Catholic church itself alive and honest in the 21st century. May she maintain that tradition for the next 100 years for all our sake. Sr. Joan Chittister, bestselling author of books about faith and society Author Lawrence Guillot, an expert in organizational development and non-profit management, assesses how NCR managed and transitioned through any given time period. For both experienced and aspiring nonprofit managers, this alone is worth the book's price. Sr. Christine Schenk, co-founder of FutureChurch May this history engage the imagination and intelligence of a new generation of Christians here in the United States as they help to write the next chapters of American and Christian history - once our story and now theirs. David J. O'Brien, leading author and historian of American Catholic life
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