Editorials
Reauthorizing Welfare Reform
The welfare reform law of 1996 comes up for reauthorization by Congress a year from now.
Articles
Women Set Free
Leaving prison and re-entering the community pose difficulties for both men and women.
More Priestly Fraternity
It is odd to observe twenty-somethings trying to act like fifty-somethings.
Responding to the Terrorist Attacks
Many in the religious community, including the Catholic community, have called attention to two dimensions of the background for the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11: the economic and the political.
The Quest for Authentic Liturgy
To draft principles and norms of translation for the nearly 800 vernacular languages of the Catholic world is a formidable taska task that should involve the broadest consultation of episcopal conf
Suffer the Children
There is growing public pressure to charge, try, convict and sentence juvenile offenders in adult criminal courts. This is a misguided and simplistic approach to a complex problem.
Books and Culture
Books
The trial of Slobodan Milosevic dramatizes the new worldwide demand for accountability for public officials who violate internationally reco
Books
Empire Statesman begins, appropriately enough, by evoking the 1928 September night when a flaming cross greeted Alfred E.
Columns and Departments
The Word
The Word
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