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

1. NCR Today [1] (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 [2] (15,429 pageviews) A news story filed June 4

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

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

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

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

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

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

9. Call to the bishops: 'build on hope, not fear' [9] (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 [10] (5,338 pageviews) Part of Tom Roberts' In Search of the Emerging Church [11] series

11. From Italy to Iran, voters hand the church a mandate on Islam [12] (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 [13] (5,337 pageviews) Commentary by Sr. Joan Chittister

13. Rebuilding a parish, pastor comes to love people more [14] (5,137 pageviews) Part of Tom Roberts' In Search of the Emerging Church [11] series

14. A new face of Catholicism [15] (5,114 pageviews) Obama's pick for Vatican ambassador embodies U.S. Catholic currents

15. More on the leadership crisis [16] (4,957 pageviews) An Essay in Theology by Fr. Richard McBrien

16. Congressman steeped in Catholic activism [17] (4,870 pageviews) A profile of U.S. Rep. Tom Perriello, D-Va.

17. Catholic health providers meet in uncertain climate [18] (4,735 pageviews) Report from the annual Catholic Health Assembly, which met in New Orleans this year

18. The papacy 1,000 years ago [19] (4,529 pageviews) An Essay in Theology by Fr. Richard McBrien

19. The silence of the presidents [20] (4,261 pageviews) An Essay in Theology by Fr. Richard McBrien

20. White House consults on how to make abortion rarer [21] (4,187 pageviews) Report by Jerry Filteau, NCR Washington correspondent.