Editorials
Medicaid Cuts
Medicare, the health insurance program for Americans over 65, is getting much attention these days, because of the president’s much-contested plan to provide prescription benefits for low-income se
Articles
A Looming Crisis of Faith
An overarching crisis in today’s church is a crisis of faith; not faith in God, not faith in Jesus Christ, but a crisis of faith in the institutional church.
Contemporary Catholics on Traditional Devotions
This series focuses on the world of devotions in the life of contemporary believers.
Novenas
I grew up three blocks from St. Mary, Help of Christians Church in West Allis, Wis.
Relics
In the cathedral church of Amiens, in Picardy, there is a relic of quite remarkable distinction. It is the head of St. John the Baptist. Or if we are to be precise, the frontal part of the skull.
The New National Security Strategy
The autumn and winter have been consumed with the debate about Iraq, but decisions about Iraq are part of a more comprehensive policy vision announced by the Bush administration in its National Sec
Scheidler v. NOW
The United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Scheidler v. National Organization for Women, Inc. on Feb. 26.
Books and Culture
Books
Ross Terrill’s argument goes something like this: China is not a modern state.
Books
Around Jesus’ time, roughly from 20 B.C. to A.D. 70, Jews, especially in Jerusalem, developed the practice of a two-stage burial.
Books
Those of us who knew Paul Dinter as the Catholic chaplain at Columbia University in the 1970’s and 80’s were presented with a personable, in
