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Articles in July 4, 1997 issue of National Catholic Reporter

• Ruling on remedial programs lauded - public school teachers may teach remedial classes at parodical schools
• Healthy signs of wit, compassion and courage - homosexual issue and the Catholic church - Editorial
• Theologians ponder meanings of borders - annual meeting of College Theology Society, May 29-June 1, 1997: includes a related article on the Society's petition to the US Bishops Conference on an inclusive lectionary, which they want forwarded to the Vatica
  by Rosemary Johnston
• No lay votes allowed in restructuring - US Bishop's national conference restructuring restricted to bishops only; includes a related article with the Vatican rules for translating biblical texts for liturgical use
  by Pamela Schaeffer
• Need for discourse on faith seems clear - a more inclusive model for the Catholic church is needed - Column
  by Joseph A. Dearborn
• Catholics speak out against death for McVeigh - Timothy J. McVeigh, convicted and sentenced to death for Oklahoma bombing murders
• Globalization conference reveals gap among Catholics - Social Responsibility in the Age of Globalization conference, May 1997 in Milwaukee, WI called by Archbishop Rembert M. Weakland - Column
  by Thomas C. Fox
• Debate over language linger; lectionary vote inconclusive - includes a related article on the use of the pronoun 'he' in the Catholic Church
  by Pamela Schaeffer
• Joy abounds and puppies know where - joy and the religous experience - Column
  by Jeanette Batz
• Union leader brings organizing campaign to cucumber pickers - Baldemar Velasquez, founder of Ohio-based Farm Labor Organizing Committee - FLOC - joins with workers in Mount Olive, NC; includes a related article on Velasquez, winner of the 1990 MacArthur
  by Patrick O'Neill
• Hope always focus of Detroit priest - Focus: HOPE, started by three Catholics, including William T. Cunningham, to build racial harmony in Detroit MI - Editorial
  by Tom Fox
• Presidential request may spur defining debate on trade policy - US workers rights, environmental issues tied to foreign trade policy as Pres. Bill Clinton asks Congress for negotiating authority
  by Lynn Kamm
• Silencing the social critics: an untold story in Colombia - US-supported death squad murders unreported in the US press - Column
  by Leslie Wirpsa
• Dominican selection of DiNoia nullified - US Eastern Province of the Dominican order provincial-elect, Joseph DiNoia, not accepted by the Master of the order in Rome
  by Arthur Jones
• Catholic Cubans nurture new freedoms - Cover Story
  by Leslie Wirpsa