EDITORIALS

Current Comment

A Dry, Weary Land; Praying as Family By The editors

No Waiting Room

We cannot afford to wait to reform health care. It is costing us too much. By The editors

ARTICLES

A Sturdy Framework

A defense of the bishops' new high school catechesis By Alfred McBride

Escape From Alcatraz

Father Damien held up by America's most wanted By Daniel J. Demers

Misleading Indicators

How U.S. economists missed the Great Recession By Charles K. Wilber

BOOKS & CULTURE

THEATER

Divine Direction

A conversation with Liv Ullmann By Robert E. Lauder

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Reality Check on Poverty

There is no perfect way to measure as complex a condition as poverty. By John J. DiIulio Jr.

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Corruption and Inaction Leave Kenya on the Brink, Catholic Leaders Encouraged By Obama's Speech, Nigerian Bishops Fault Government, more ...

OF MANY THINGS

By Drew Christiansen

POEM

Pie

By John Nixon Jr.

BOOK REVIEWS

In Due Season, The Next Progressive Era, Sin

THE WORD

Toward a Sacred Unity

Twenty-seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Oct. 4, 2009 By Barbara E. Reid

LETTERS