EDITORIALS

Current Comment

Healthier Already; Pope and President; Mere Pious Legend? By The editors

For the Common Good

In state houses and board rooms across the country, a failure to come together By The Editors

ARTICLES

A Deacon's Lessons

Seven things they don't teach you in formation By Greg Kandra

Book Briefs

By Patricia A. Kossmann

Looking Back and Ahead

The theology behind the permanent diaconate By Scott Dodge

Married and Ordained

The ministry of deacons By William T. Ditewig

BOOKS & CULTURE

FILM

As It Was in the Beginning

The timeless charms of 'The Brothers Bloom' By Jake Martin

IDEAS

Accept the Absurd

Beckett and Kierkegaard, Godot and Christ By Robert E. Lauder

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Blame Cheney?

Did Cheney's failed policies destroy the Bush presidency? By John J. DiIulio Jr.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Sotomayor, Senators, Discuss Legal Philosophy, Pope Discusses Bioethics, G-8 Summit with Obama, Religious Leaders Condemn Indonesian Bombings, more ...

FAITH IN FOCUS

Spirituality in the Wild

By Carol K. Coburn

FAITH IN FOCUS

The Breaking of the Bread

In far-flung places, Jesus is made present. By Charles Murphy

OF MANY THINGS

War can never be understood as a rational exercise, for sin is by definition irrational. By Matt Malone

BOOK REVIEWS

The Silence and the Scorpion, The Crisis of Islamic Civilization

THEATER REVIEW

A War on Women

By Rob Weinert-Kendt

THE WORD

Always Enough

Seventeenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), July 26, 2009 By Barbara E. Reid

THE WORD

Heavenly Bread

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Aug. 2, 2009 By Barbara E. Reid

LETTERS

WEB ONLY

Deacon Dialogues

By Karen Sue Smith

Serious Thinking

The moral challenge of 'Caritas in Veritate' By Blase Cupich