Top 20 stories for June

Here are the top 20 stories visited on the NCR Web site during the month of June:

1. NCR Today (23,398 pageviews) NCR's group blog with multiple postings throughout the day
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2. U.S. women religious study raising new concerns (15,429 pageviews) A news story filed June 4

    

    

3. Sisters delivered the church Vatican II promised (10,292 pageviews) An NCR editorial dated June 8.

    

    

4. Taking the bishops' temperature on Obama-Notre Dame (9,644 pageviews) John L. Allen Jr. reporting from the spring meeting of the U.S. Catholic bishops

    

    

5. Thomas Berry, environmentalist-priest, dies (9,709 pageviews) Obituary for Passionist Fr. Thomas Berry

    

    

6. In preview of new encyclical, Benedict reprises 'dictatorship of relativism' speech (8,149 pageviews) Analysis by John Allen

    

    

7. 'Remarkable congruence' between pope and president on Islam (6,687 pageviews) Analysis by John L. Allen Jr.

    

    

8. Jesuit sees convergence of U.S., Vatican policies (6,273 pageviews) Interview with Fr. Thomas Reese

    

    

9. Call to the bishops: 'build on hope, not fear' (5,859 pageviews) Commentary by David O’Brien, the University Professor of Faith and Culture at the University of Dayton.

    

    

10. Carving out a spiritual home (5,338 pageviews) Part of Tom Roberts' In Search of the Emerging Church series

     

     

11. From Italy to Iran, voters hand the church a mandate on Islam (5,349 pageviews) John Allen's Friday column for June 12

     

     

12. It was a 'face-up-to-the-life-you-have-just-inherited' speech (5,337 pageviews) Commentary by Sr. Joan Chittister

     

     

13. Rebuilding a parish, pastor comes to love people more (5,137 pageviews) Part of Tom Roberts' In Search of the Emerging Church series

     

     

14. A new face of Catholicism (5,114 pageviews) Obama's pick for Vatican ambassador embodies U.S. Catholic currents

     

     

15. More on the leadership crisis (4,957 pageviews) An Essay in Theology by Fr. Richard McBrien

     

     

16. Congressman steeped in Catholic activism (4,870 pageviews) A profile of U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va.

     

     

17. Catholic health providers meet in uncertain climate (4,735 pageviews) Report from the annual Catholic Health Assembly, which met in New Orleans this year

     

     

18. The papacy 1,000 years ago (4,529 pageviews) An Essay in Theology by Fr. Richard McBrien

     

     

19. The silence of the presidents (4,261 pageviews) An Essay in Theology by Fr. Richard McBrien

     

     

20. White House consults on how to make abortion rarer (4,187 pageviews) Report by Jerry Filteau, NCR Washington correspondent.