EDITORIALS

Current Comment

Saint Damien of Molokai, AIDS in Africa By The editors

The Price of Death

Why is the United States one of the few developed countries that still supports the death penalty? By The editors

ARTICLES

Imagining the Immigrant

Why legality must give way to humanity By John J. Savant

Prudential Investment

Can Catholic institutions do well while doing good? By Doug Demeo

BOOKS & CULTURE

MUSIC

Stairway to Heaven

Can you be saved by rock ’n’ roll? By Tom Beaudoin and Brian Robinette

FILM

Ricky Almighty

The dour satire of "The Invention of Lying" By Harry Forbes

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

Democracy on the Line

We need user-friendly ways to gather information we require as citizens. By By Thomas Massaro

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Bishops Advise on Humanitarian, Moral Issues, U.N. Director Urges Synod to Fight Hunger, Floods Wash Away Philippine Homes, more ...

FAITH IN FOCUS

Art of Redemption

One man's escape from death row By David Paul Hammer

OF MANY THINGS

Confessions of a news hound By Drew Christiansen

POEM

The Drowning Falconers

By Chris Waters

BOOK REVIEWS

Rowan's Rule, The Ballad of Dorothy Wordsworth, Wrestling with Our Inner Angels

THE WORD

A Great Cloud of Witnesses

Solemnity of All Saints (B), Nov. 1, 2009 By Barbara E. Reid

LETTERS