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Articles in August 8, 2008, issue of National Catholic Reporter

• From where I stand
• West Bank water crisis
• Anonymous donor funds schools
• Bush urged to push China
• Bishop concedes he may have been assaulted but can't remember
• Quotable & notable
• 4th-century Bible goes online
• Nun's healings investigated
• Funders look to North America
• Seminary status unclear
• Pay packets at the monastery of the Sisters of St. Benedict of Ferdinand, Ind., will be a bit thicker this month when the sisters begin reimbursing their 49 full-time and 24 part-time employees for the gas they use to drive back and forth to work
• Chase Hilgenbrinck
• More than half of Switzerland's Protestants find nature more spiritually moving than going to church, a poll conducted for a weekly magazine of the Reformed churches in the German-speaking part of Switzerland has found
• Isabelle Balot
• Tim Tebow
• Religious groups work with U.N. to limit small arms
• Vatican laicizes bishop who was elected president
• Listen to others, be generous, Anglicans told
• African woman elected bishop
• Fasting to stave off starvation
  by Jeong Taesoo
• Bishops stand with migrants in '08
  by John L. Allen, Jr.
• Students bring perspectives from afar
• From bystander to middle of the fray
• New groups
• Fairy tale
  by Ethel Pochocki
• It Is Good to Be the King
  by Barbara McGillicuddy
• The Pond
  by Mary Jane Lilly
• Goodbye, Joe!
  by Joseph Cunneen
• Popular mechanics: in 'WALL-E,' a pluck-e robot cleans up the planet
  by Joseph Cunneen
• Exiles from heaven: Ron Hansen's new novel entwines the story of Gerard Manley Hopkins and five nuns lost at sea
  by Chris Byrd
• An ex-con who defies the odds: the national shame of mass imprisonment goes unaddressed
  by Colman McCarthy
• Archbishop Burke
  by Edward McCarey McDonnell
• What's that money for?
  by David Martens
• Humanae Vitae
  by Edd Doerr
• Other candidates
  by Arthur Milholland
• Yanks in Australia
  by John P. Brannan
• Curing felonious priests
  by Ernest Ratterman
• Madison diocese
  by E. Bybee
• Floods and birth control
  by George R. Cochran
• Sr. Dorothy Stang
  by Elizabeth Bowyer
• Guns and the court
  by Larry Boudreau
• A Michigan pastor has launched a "Gossip Free" campaign, challenging people not to gossip for eight consecutive days beginning Aug. 8, that is 08-08-08
• Leadership and consensus
  by Rita Larivee
• Green teachings, initiatives take hold among Catholics worldwide
  by John L. Allen, Jr.
• On the road for the earth: a year long 50 state trip documents green enterprises
  by Rich Heffern
• University disinvites noted theologian Ruether
  by Tom Roberts
• Fight poverty, candidates told
• 2004 Ad
  by Tom Roberts
• The rally round religion
  by Arun Pereira
• What's the news? See it at the Newseum
  by Margot Patterson
• Nowadays Israelis and Palestinians lead very separate lives
  by Neve Gordon
• The marks of the church
  by Richard P. McBrien
• Tree-hugging and Catholic
• Global trade: we need each other