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Articles in June 13, 2008, issue of National Catholic Reporter

• Cyclone leaves thousands orphaned
  by Moe Yu May
• The imprint of the Irish
  by Patricia Lefevere
• Sant'Egidio
  by Nancy Oliveira
• Airport chapel under reconsideration
• Bishops to consider stem cells, Mass translations
  by Daniel Burke
• The diocese of Przemysl, Poland, has completed the initial steps in the canonization process for Jozef and Wiktoria Ulm, a peasant couple shot with their six small children for hiding Jews in their farmhouse during the Holocaust
• Gods and idols: 'Idol Anxiety' looks at the relationship between images, artists and audience
  by Menachem Wecker
• Pope's birthday gift
  by Madeleine Ducey Fister
• Many temples, much beauty
  by Teresa Malcolm
• Gypsies' restless, faith: Catholics and Pentecostals vie for the loyalty of Romania's Roma
  by Chuck Todaro
• William P. Ford, who spent more than two decades seeking to bring high-ranking military officials to justice after his sister, Ita Ford, and three other American churchwomen were murdered in El Salvador's civil war in the 1980s, died June 2 at his home in
• Women cardinals
  by John Mulhern
• Women of the Christian past
• Immigrant saint gets new home
• Churches intimidated, services impeded: Zimbabwe's President Mugabe has said church leaders' repeated calls for his regime to respect human rights are nothing more than dabbling in politics
• Bill orders release of data
• Former British Prime Minister Tony Blair has launched a new Faith Foundation to promote interfaith initiatives to tackle global poverty and conflict, and promote understanding between the world's major religions
• A hunger for mature theology: Elizabeth Johnson's new book gives us something to chew on
  by Thomas C. Fox
• Poverty and terrorism
  by Wayne Vanek
• Shameful silence on cluster bombs
• Bishops of India
  by Beth Rindler
• Love, literature and the lion: 'Reprise' follows budding writers; 'Prince Caspian' revisits fantasy land
  by Joseph Cunneen
• A U.S. paratrooper who had his request for conscientious objector status denied by the U.S. Army while serving in Iraq last year has appealed that decision in an Anchorage, Alaska, federal court
• Bail fund for undocumented
• Panic in the parks: why public lands will change
  by Walter Truett Anderson
• Christianity: sunrise or sunset?
  by Rita Larivee
• Alternative church
  by Sally Butler
• Mouse in a Pot
  by Ethel Pochocki
• Richard T. Sutcliffe, the creator of the "Davey and Goliath" animated television series, died May 11
• Quotable & notable
• Obama and Hitler
  by Bill Donohue
• An interfaith television game show, believed to be the first in Britain, in which Buddhist, Christian, Hindu, Muslim and Sikh contestants compete against one another for cash prizes is to be broadcast weekly from the London studios of the Islam Channel fr
• NCR nets top press award for ninth year running
• Mercy Expanded
  by Barbara Mayer
• Christianity under siege: as Islam infiltrates secular Europe, how will the religious landscape be reshaped? Depending upon who's doing the forecasting, the rise of Islam in Europe could be the nail in the coffin for institutional Christianity or the harb
  by John L. Allen, Jr.
• Rosary rally called 'spiritual warfare'
  by Michael Humphrey
• Women preaching
  by Paul J. Ackerman
• The brutish sport of horse racing: the 'Sport of Kings' is another name for cruelty
  by Colman McCarthy
• Immigrant nightmare: a Catholic parish becomes a refuge for torn families in the aftermath of an Iowa immigration raid that swept up hundreds. The laws and enforcement policies, say church officials, 'are inappropriate to the reality.'
  by Patrick Marrin
• Ohio fraud case advances
• Saved by an angel
• Ponying up to save Catholic schools
  by Patrick McCloskey
• Summit affirms lay stake in future church: lifetime formation, financial support dominate lay ministers' concerns
  by Patricia Lefevere
• Abuse cover-up
  by Helen Fitzgerald
• Gay marriage not decided yet
• Keep the pulpit nonpartisan
• Minnesota parishes tussle with impending ban on lay preaching
  by Kris Berggren
• Churches and saints of Lower Manhattan
  by Patricia Lefevere
• Hugo Chavez
  by Megan Morrissey
• Excommunications upheld