NCR's top 20

Following are the top 20 most-visted Web pages, in descending order, on NCRonline.org during the month of May.

• NCR Today, NCR's new blog.
  
• It was a 'face-up-to-the-life-you-have-just-inherited' speech, Sr. Joan Chitter's reflection on Pres. Obama's Notre Dame speech.
  
• Vatican's moderate line on Obama has deep roots, analysis by John Allen
  
• Irish abuse report demands decisive action, commentary by U.S. Dominican Fr. Thomas Doyle
  
• Bishops urged to restore civility in pro-life efforts, report of a speech by Jesuit Fr. John P. Langan of Georgetown University
  
• Obama's singling out Bernardin, Hesburgh is message for us, Fr. Richard McBrien's take on Pres. Obama's speech at Notre Dame
  
• International nun's group supports U.S. women religious, the international women religious union issued a strong supportive statement for U.S. women religious congregations under investigation by the Vatican.
  
• Mahony on ministry; headaches in the Holy Land, John Allen's April 30 column
  
• Obama's speech at Notre Dame, Hiedi Schlumpf reporting from Notre Dame campus
  
• Three great ironies about Benedict's Holy Land visit, John Allen's wrap-up of the pope's mid-May trip to the Middle East
  
• Judge Sotomayor's experience trumps all, analysis of a Supreme Court nominee
  
• The inevitable, necessary crisis, one of Tom Roberts' stories as he travels across the united states talking to Catholics about community and parish life.
  
• With Diaz nomination, Obama passes major Catholic test, John Allen's May 29 column.
  
• Cleveland diocese shaken by seismic shifts, one of Tom Roberts' stories as he travels across the united states talking to Catholics about community and parish life.
  
• Obama calls for understanding, respect in abortion debate, our story from Notre Dame
  
• In Search of the Emerging church, Tom Roberts's blog on his road trip exploring American Catholic life.
  
• We're all in the same boat, John Allen's column from May 22
  
• Why was Obama ND visit 'Eloquence Incomplete'?, commentary by Douglas Kmiec
  
• US ambassador to Vatican named, a breaking news story May 27
  
• Insider accounts from a lonely man, excerpts from Archbishop Rembert G. Weakland's soon to be released autobiography.