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Articles in March 19, 2004 issue of National Catholic Reporter

• Urban hospital finds ways to meet costs: trauma unit meter runs at $5,000 a minute
  by Arthur Jones
• No set figure for church closings
  by Dennis Coday
• Into Africa—"Cross" and support from U.S. Catholics bring merciful relief & new hope to needy orphans
• Author examines Rings' theology: Tolkien's trilogy reflects pivotal Christian themes - The Gospel According to Tolkien: Visions of the KIngdom of Middle-Earth - Book Review
  by Wayne A. Holst
• Catholic art - Letter to the Editor
  by Sally Beers
• Lent's scary downward path
  by Patricia Lynn Morrison
• Ford Motor Company has proposed a national dialogue on health costs
• Mercy Sr. Petra Chavez - People - received the 2004 Sr. Margaret Cafferty Development of People Award for her efforts to empower low-income immigrant women through access to computer training - Brief Article
• The Womb - Poem
  by B. DeRouen
• What I would tell my Jewish friends about 'The Passion' - Viewpoint - Column
  by Andres Tapia
• Secondhand editorials - Letter to the Editor
  by Tom Horst
• End justifies the means with financing loophole
  by Joe Feuerherd
• China bishop detained
  by Dennis Coday
• "Cross" strengthens its international outreach
• On penitence and penitentiaries: a prison inmate tells how Centering Prayer brought him to the truth of Lent and Easter
  by Jens Soering
• Marketing religion - Letter to the Editor
  by Barbara Jean Franklin
• '527s': a new way to purchase politicians
• Carolyn Susman, writing in The Palm Beach Post
• Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences - People - Mary Ann Glendon, a professor of law at Harvard University, has been named president - Brief Article
• Is Baghdad another Belfast? Canceled elections in Northern Ireland raise questions about democracy-building in Iraq
  by Ashley Merryman
• The anti-Christian 'Passion of the Christ' - Viewpoint - Movie Review
  by Tom Beaudoin
• Manifest destiny - Letter to the Editor
  by Larry Boudreau
• We almost took a break
  by Tom Roberts
• Muslims help fasting Christians - World - Brief Article
  by Dennis Coday
• Compassionate Catholic families help African orphans overcome plight
• Monasteries - Poem
  by Benedict Janecko
• Christian-Muslim relations
  by Edward F. Halpin
• Fr. Richard Sinner - Letter to the Editor
  by Larry Lange
• Health care costs top the list of American's domestic worries, ahead of economic fears and right behind their anxieties over terrorism, according to a January Associated Press poll
• Death in Haiti - World - Brief Article
  by Dennis Coday
• Sex matters: the riches of the Catholic sexual tradition
  by Sidney Callahan
• Is it vital or vulgar? 'Vagina Monologues' provokes complaints from Catholic colleges - Theater
  by Lisa M. O'Neill
• Hispanic Catholics - Letter to the Editor
  by Larry Roegner
• At a time when nearly one quarter of American households provide care to relatives or friends over 50, a new report by the Family Caregiver Alliance has studied the economic impact on caregivers who leave the work force to assist
• International Theological Commission - People - Sr. Sara Butler, a Missionary Servant of the Most Blessed Trinity, and Barbara Hallensleben, a German laywoman, became March 6 the first women named to the Vatican's International Theological Commission - Br
• Grand jury convened for Dupre case
  by Chuck Colbert
• Gibson, Gospel facts and anti-Semitism - Viewpoint - Column
  by Edward Jeremy Miller
• Priests' salaries - Letter to the Editor
  by W. Roy Floch
• Cloning advance spurs ethical quandaries: arguments point to unexpected turns in debate as age of cloned babies draws closer
  by William Bole
• Pastor sought for 'Web church'
  by Dennis Coday
• A special outreach during Lent will bless all who accept the challenge
• Helpless Love - Poem
  by Linda Zralek
• Mother Mary Skobstova - Letter to the Editor
  by Fred B. Ithurburn
• Updating the empire
  by Dorothy Tennessen
• An American Hospital Association survey said Americans have "reached a level of anxiety"
• Charities paying for birth control
  by Dennis Coday
• Magisterial VIPs endorse Rahner's orthodoxy
  by John L. Allen, Jr.
• Reusable plastic book wastes not, wants not
  by Rich Heffern
• Preventive war - Letter to the Editor
  by Len Scharmach
• The Institute of Medicine has declared as "dire" Americans' lack of health insurance
• Fr. Alberto Ricardo da Silva - People - named bishop of Dili, East Timor - Brief Article
• Albany bishop faces abuse allegations: Hubbard denies charges some call questionable; diocese hires investigator
  by Ed Griffin-Nolan
• Gay marriage merits our prayers
  by Demetria Martinez
• Part-time priests - Letter to the Editor
  by Jim Taunt