EDITORIALS

An Untreated Epidemic?

If recent statistics prove to be accurate, then we need to confront autism as a major health care crisis. By The editors

Current Comment

Galileo at the Vatican: Dr. Barnes' Little Museum By The editors

ARTICLES

A Rosary in Kandahar

By John F. Butler

An Illusory Peace

Why even Obama cannot bring an end to the culture wars By William Bole

Mandate of Heaven

Religious studies return to China. By Thomas P. Rausch

Pastoring Atheists

God is an elusive presence in a world looking for certitude and control. By Thomas J. Santen

Soldiers Home

Our duty to returning veterans By Timothy P. Broglio

BOOKS & CULTURE

FILM

Job in Minnesota

"A Serious Man" tackles the problem of suffering By John Anderson

TELEVISION

Anemic

By Jake Martin

COLUMNS & DEPARTMENTS

The Race of a Lifetime

Road races are occasions of joy and laughter, sweat and strain. By Margaret Silf

SIGNS OF THE TIMES

Rome Open to Anglican Return, U.S. Walks Tightrope in Sudan and Uganda, State of U.S. Marriage, more ...

OF MANY THINGS

The many ways to help homeless, abused animals By Patricia A. Kossmann

BOOK REVIEWS

Receiving the Council, The Education of a British-Protected Child , Easy, The Saint and the Sultan, The Difference God Makes, On The Irish Waterfront

THE WORD

All She Had to Live On

Thirty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time (B), Nov. 8, 2009 By Barbara E. Reid

LETTERS