Editorials
The Meanest Cities
Cities vary in their responses to the needs of their homeless populations. Some are very mean indeed as the numbers of homeless people continue to rise. Take Sarasota, Fla.
Articles
Fasting: A Fresh Look
Have you ever tried to explain the Catholic regulations on fasting to a Muslim, a Jew or a Hindu?
Ethics Outflanked
Thirty years from now, students in ethics classes who study the Iraq war will be stunned by the manner in which ethicists twisted themselves into pretzels searching for a moral lens that would fit thi
The Dilemma in Iraq
Iraq was a preventive war. As preventive wars are wont to do, it has become a war of occupation (de jure and now de facto).
Books and Culture
Books
Andrew Greeley has described Catholicism using James Joyce’s phrase Here comes everyone.
Columns and Departments
The Word
Faith in Focus
Columns
Of Many Things
Letters
