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Toward a Brighter Place
Kelly Cherry
Angela O'Donnell's poetry balances hard truths with a sweetness of spirit that is rare in our time.
Television
Moral Convictions: An interview with the producer of 'Law & Order'
Emily Brennan

'Law & Order' producer René Balcer explains why the long-running police drama is in part a 'moral mystery.'

Signs Of the Times
Bishops Respond to Attacks on John Carr

Bishop William F. Murphy of Rockville Centre, N.Y., called the attacks "false" and "even calumnious.”

The Word
The Face of Freedom
Barbara E. Reid
Second Sunday of Lent (C), Feb. 28, 2010
Editorials
Housecleaning
The Editors
Working class families should not have to abandon their dream of a new home because of the housing market debacle.
Letters
Letters
Deacons as Co-Workers Monsignor Rubino (“Fraternal Orders,” 1/4) might consider adding a seventh suggestion as “advice for young clergy”: View permanent deacons as brothers, co-workers in the vineyard of the Lord. There exists in our church in the United States an unhealthy t
Books
Worry, Dont Be Happy
Anna Keating
A persuasive critique of the cult of positive thinking.
Signs Of the Times
Defense Review Reveals Shift In Military Focus

“Achieving our objectives in Afghanistan and Iraq has moved to the top of the institutional military’s budget priorities,” Secretary of Defense Robert Gates said.

Signs Of the Times
Vatican Suggests Ecumenical Catechism

Cardinal Walter Kasper said a shared catechism could be one of the fruits of 40 years of dialogue among Catholic and Protestant churches.

Of Many Things
Of Many Things
Drew Christiansen
For a Scandinavian-American, a visit from the bishops of Stockholm, Copenhagen and Reykjavik was a rare treat.
Columns
Green Shoots in the Desert
Margaret Silf
If you ask for the grace to put down a deeper root, God will not fail to surprise.
Troubled Waters: Catholic-Jewish relations in the United States have grown strained.
John Borelli
Catholic-Jewish relations in the United States have grown strained.
Books
High-Wire Act
Gerald T. Cobb
'Let the Great World Spin' is one of the more artful works of fiction to appear in the past 10 years.
Film
Guilt Remains: Sin is inescapable in Michael Haneke's 'The White Ribbon'
Maurice Timothy Reidy

“The White Ribbon” is a bracing argument for the ubiquity of sin. But it has little to say about redemption.

Signs Of the Times
Church Leaders: Keep Christian Party Identity

German church leaders have criticized Chancellor Angela Merkel’s governing Christian Democratic Union for moving away from its Christian ethos.

Signs Of the Times
News Briefs

Radio Soleil, the Catholic radio station in Haiti, resumed broadcasting on Jan. 24 from a makeshift studio in the back of a van.

Oscar Race 2010: America reviews the field
James Martin, S.J.
America reviews the field
Current Comment
Current Comment
The Editors
Turning Back the Clock; Tracks to Nowhere; Mardi Gras 2010
Adonde Vas, Mexico?: Looking for traditional Mexico amid Big Macs and Pampers
Robert Joe Stout
Halfway across the zócalo, a central plaza typical of Mexican cities, in the little city of Tlaxiaco in the southern state of Oaxaca, I stopped, my appreciation of the mid-morning sunlight temporarily diverted. A middle-aged man and woman—obviously tourists—were sidling this way a
In All Things
Catholics in numbers
Austen Ivereigh
There were 1 16 billion baptised Catholics in the world in 2008 up 1 7 19m on the previous year and making up 17 4 of the world s population nbsp according to the latest Annuario Pontificio nbsp In the same period the world s population went from 6 6bn to 6 7bn The Catholic share of tha