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In All Things
Michael Sean Winters
The USCCB begins its annual plenary session today in Baltimore On the formal agenda the bishops will consider a proposed pastoral letter on marriage which they should scrap and start over and the final approval of Mass translations some are good some not so good but it is past time to fight ov
Books
Peter Heinegg
Two years of love and danger in Tehran
Current Comment
The Editors
Artful Tax Dodgers; Resigned in Afghanistan
Signs Of the Times

A Vatican official argues that since globalization has an impact on the movement of people, it must be the focus of Christian attention.

Austen Ivereigh
What will come of the Vatican's invitation to Anglicans?
Signs Of the Times

Archbishop Allen H. Vigneron of Detroitdescended 1,200 feet into the salt of the earth to bless a newly made statue and shrine to St. Barbara, the patroness of miners.

Art
Leo J. O’Donovan, S.J.

John LaFarge anticipated the art of the Impressionists in his simplified landscapes and exquisitely painted flower studies.

Poetry
Kathy Coffey

The birds of the hands:

Books
John F. Haught
'Galileo Goes to Jail' and other myths about science and religion
Editorials
The Editors
If there is a fundamental right to bear arms, there is also a responsibility to regulate their sale and use.
Signs Of the Times
David Alire Garcia

The roots of the conflict in Honduras go back long before President Manuel Zelaya was forced to leave the country on June 28.

Columns
Maryann Cusimano Love
Afghanistan is not a failed state, but a fictional state.
Signs Of the Times

The insert urged readers to press Senate leaders to support efforts to “incorporate long-standing policies against abortion funding and in favor of conscience rights” in health reform legislation.

B. G. Kelley
A Catholic coach, an evangelical court
Letters
Family Reunion Re “Rome Open to Anglican Return” (Signs of the Times, 11/2): We are told that this promised apostolic constitution is a response to the many and frequent knocks that our separated brothers have made at the door of the Catholic Church. This easily brings to mind the parabl
Books
David Garrison
Here is a small book of images artfully constructed and melancholy with only one story to tell but a story with two parts the end is coming life goes on As the title indicates each poem in this the 19th volume from Charles Wright contains six lines but six lines visually attenuated always
Of Many Things
Drew Christiansen
Stories of the pains inflicted by the absence of an Israeli-Palestinian peace
Signs Of the Times

Life issues from the test tube to the deathbed are on the agenda for the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops’ fall general assembly.

Faith
William Reiser
Twenty Years Later: Remembering the Martyrs of El Salvador