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Jim McDermott
The poet Peter Steele's territory of joy
Patricia A. Kossmann
Book briefs
Television
Jake Martin

Both “Gossip Girl” and “Glee” provide startlingly authentic accounts of the primitive needs of contemporary adolescents.

Of Many Things
James Martin, S.J.
An unscientific survey of parish life in America
Signs Of the Times

Europe’s Catholic bishops commemorated the end of the continent’s division between East and West with warnings of a new crisis of values.

Columns
Kyle T. Kramer
Farmers' markets offer a glimpse of the gentler, more generous economy.
Signs Of the Times

More than 1,000 students from the District of Columbia assembled in Washington to urge members of Congress to support an endangered federal voucher program.

Ruth Anne Olson
Finding God in majestic places
Letters
The Best and Brightest Re: “Confessions of a Modern Nun,” by Ilia Delio, O.S.F. (10/12/09): Let us applaud the wonderful, faithful, loyal women who entered convent life during the 1950s and 1960s—the best and brightest group of women that the Roman Catholic Church has ever seen. Ma
Film
Thomas J. Massaro

Michael Moore goes to Wall Street.

Signs Of the Times
From AP, CNS, RNS, Staff and other sources

In the first week of its new term, the court heard a case concerning a cross displayed on public land.

Current Comment
The Editors
A Way Out in Honduras; Sudan's Crucified Christians; A Visit from the Grand Master
Signs Of the Times

The Vatican’s foreign affairs minister has called for the establishment of a “nuclear-free zone” in the Middle East.

David Cortright
Reassessing U.S. engagement in Afghanistan
Daniel J. Harrington
John P. Meier revisits the historical Jesus.
In All Things
Valerie Schultz
nbsp nbsp nbsp Here rsquo s the kind of year I rsquo m having I rsquo m in the uncomfortable position of being not holy enough for my religious friends and too holy for my non-religious friends I have always lived with the suspicion that I don rsquo t really fit in anywhere that I am a perpet
In All Things
Austen Ivereigh
More than a million people took to the streets of Madrid yesterday to protest Spanish government plans to introduce abortion on demand nbsp A sea of protesters staged an early evening march across the city behind a huge banner reading CADA VIDA IMPORTA Every life matters to protest the Bill w
In All Things
Jim McDermott
The LA Times reported at 7 29 this evening that Shepard Fairey the artist associated with the now famous Obama HOPE painting has admitted that he knowingly attempted to deceive the Associated Press about which photograph he had used as a reference for the painting As the AP had originally claim
In All Things
Dave Nantais
America readers may be interested to know that Time Magazine recently purchased a beautiful 6 bedroom house on Detroit rsquo s east side for under 100 000 where a few of their reporters will reside for one year covering the changes in Detroit good and bad brought about by the declining auto indu
In All Things
James Martin, S.J.
We re happy to introduce a new film reviewer whose name will most likely be familiar to many of our readers nbsp Harry Forbes for many years the former director of the U S Catholic Bishops Conference Office for film and broadcasting and whose job required him to review literally thousands of